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Re: Artist's Frustration!?
« Reply #15 on: June 20, 2008, 07:56:24 PM »
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I also should mention:

If you're going to get anything done, you're going to need focus.

I get SO much more done when I turn off the INTRAWEBS for the day. You should try it.

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Re: Artist's Frustration!?
« Reply #16 on: June 20, 2008, 07:59:02 PM »
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I may just end up losing my mind.
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« Reply #17 on: June 21, 2008, 04:42:12 PM »
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Re: Artist's Frustration!?
« Reply #18 on: June 26, 2008, 12:54:58 PM »
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Oh, so familiar.
I doubt if I told it here, but I'm an artist too.
I write. I have two serious projects (books) I'm working on and I'm rarely satisfied with what I write. I always have the sensation that I don't write descriptively enough and have to add many pages of descriptions and dialouges that I don't find ultimately as all-so-interesting for a reader who seeks an adventure book, that is which my main projects are aimed at.
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Re: Artist's Frustration!?
« Reply #19 on: June 26, 2008, 01:21:29 PM »
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I have the same problem with my books, Freddy.
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Re: Artist's Frustration!?
« Reply #20 on: June 27, 2008, 02:05:14 AM »
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In a lot of ways the new modern standard of writing is to say more with less. So if you can describe something similarly with less words, you've likely done a better job at writing.

Instead of:

"She peeled the dusty, tattered pages apart and marveled at the dark-red archaic print."

...you could go smaller with:

"Peeling the tattered book apart, she marveled at the ancient crimson glyphs."

Perhaps not the best example (and yes, that's Shanoa  ;D), but... In this case simply stating that the book is "tattered" will likely instill the image of it being old in the reader's mind anyway; thus dusty, worn... all that good stuff.

Give the reader credit. Try to get in their head and assume what they would feel at anytime when reading a sentence.

Less is more because you still achieve the imagery without losing the attention of your reader. This is why, despite the classic novels of the 19th century being very good, they can be so hard to read. They usually contain superfluous imagery; not to mention descriptions of things that're confusing to our times.

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Re: Artist's Frustration!?
« Reply #21 on: July 08, 2008, 10:15:57 AM »
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I think all artists get frustrated at some time or another with their work--the idea that everything just comes out painlessly is certainly a fairy tale.

Sometimes it's best to just close the book on a project and move on to something new, or, take a break from it for a while and come back to it after you've had some time away and can look at it again with a fresh perspective.

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Re: Artist's Frustration!?
« Reply #22 on: July 08, 2008, 01:33:33 PM »
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Hehe, same here. It's pretty sad. YOU KNOW WHAT?! I'M GONNA GO DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE! >:(

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Re: Artist's Frustration!?
« Reply #23 on: July 08, 2008, 08:08:39 PM »
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I'm back, but I forgot what I was doing once I got off the computer, so I played Resident Evil 4 instead. Is that productive? :-\

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