First shots fell way short
Dec. 23rd, 2013 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gbEDIT FROM FOUR YEARS INTO THE FUTURE: The book The War of Art is absolute 'Big Pharma wants to eat your creativity fix your mental issues by working harder if you don't think about your project 24/7 you will fail' horseshit garbage and I still regret spending $3 to buy it.
The one good thing I got from it is a great plot bunny for a story about a sinister cabal of internet entrepreneurs.
I bought The War of Art yesterday. It was very late (I'd been up reading the Wind in the Willows and translations of FFVII's unused text), but I read the foreword (by a different author).
The author of The War of Art says Inspiration--what creativity of any kind (writing, art, working out because these kind of books are incapable of going half an hour without bringing up body issues even tenuously)--comes from a Higher Source (god/the universe/divine collective consciousness/what have you).
The guy in the foreword says it's talent and some people are naturally inclined to it (genes, etc) more than others.
These are BOTH pretty big sweeping assertions to make before the book proper even begins!!
I heard a lot of recommendations about this book being good for getting started in an art business but I feel I may have bought something a lot closer to the New-Age/Motivational shelf than the Small Business shelf than I was led to believe. >_> Which isn't all bad (I'm a lot more woo-y than some people may think when they read my internet garble) but not exactly what I was looking for when I fed my money into my Kobo.
I'll report back....
The one good thing I got from it is a great plot bunny for a story about a sinister cabal of internet entrepreneurs.
I bought The War of Art yesterday. It was very late (I'd been up reading the Wind in the Willows and translations of FFVII's unused text), but I read the foreword (by a different author).
The author of The War of Art says Inspiration--what creativity of any kind (writing, art, working out because these kind of books are incapable of going half an hour without bringing up body issues even tenuously)--comes from a Higher Source (god/the universe/divine collective consciousness/what have you).
The guy in the foreword says it's talent and some people are naturally inclined to it (genes, etc) more than others.
These are BOTH pretty big sweeping assertions to make before the book proper even begins!!
I heard a lot of recommendations about this book being good for getting started in an art business but I feel I may have bought something a lot closer to the New-Age/Motivational shelf than the Small Business shelf than I was led to believe. >_> Which isn't all bad (I'm a lot more woo-y than some people may think when they read my internet garble) but not exactly what I was looking for when I fed my money into my Kobo.
I'll report back....
