What really interests me about contemporary writers, or artists, or anyone else creating, is to watch their FB page or their blog, and see snippets of their creativity.
Those descriptions of their day that just pull you in.
Photos of a portion of the painting, enabling you to focus, up close, and get to see what was involved in creating that depth and that feel.
A close-up of a ceramic handle, where the glaze resonates some deep blue spattering of color.
I think it's true, in business these days. That people who create need to grow their own vibrant following in this way.
As if they're caring for a separate garden altogether. The one surrounds and supports the main garden, which produces their painting, that remarkable piece of weaving, or that novel.
I wonder if it's expecting too much; the galleries and publishing houses put it right out there. If you want us interested, you need to have your own following.
On the one hand, who can manage life, especially if they are the parents of young ones, and find the joy and lusciousness in creating snippets to enthrall the public.
I've read many a writers blog, where they are wringing their hands over what they know to be their duty; to continually create things of interest that are bite-sized, interesting- , but related to their craft. So that people will know their name, have a taste of them, and their interest piqued.
That seems the key right there. To develop a hobby of creating pieces of what has already been made, or what was thought today, and sharing them in a delectable manner, for people to peruse briefly, and be left, nourished.
It's not the authors or other creative people who simply report booksignings or awards or other events that interest me. That's nice for them. But I want to know if their book or creation is something I may be interested in purchasing. And for that to happen, I guess I love to be enthralled.
By what it was like to write that small passage. What they were thinking, or remembering. What the process was like to experiment with this glaze, that turned out this way with these photos.
The gradual sharing of photographs of different sections of a painting in process.
I'm uncertain, in this modern fast paced life, whether this is untenable or not. But so many people talk about how difficult it is to make a living, creating. This is one path to generating knowledge of what you are creating. Interest in seeing or reading or having more. A captive audience who is moved to track your gestation and changes, simply because what you are sharing is of interest; and at times? Spellbinding.
In response to that, I guess these are the things that pull us in. Into the lives of people who create. Wanting more.
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