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The headlong rush for attention
Technology has lowered the barrier for entry for publishing, for selling, and for rapidly expanding your audience across the globe. Creatively speaking, that’s a good thing.
The problem with a low barrier to entry is the number of people tripping over it.
I know creatives who are dismayed at the growing crowd of hacks out there. So dismayed that they’ve nearly given up on trying to promote their work. They believe they’ll be lost in the crowd, drowned out in the noise.
They want to run. The wrong way.
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A celebration and a little surprise
Many years ago, I found myself watching a Hallowe’en street party. It was a nighttime Mardi Gras-style event, with costumes galore, ranging from discount store masks to full-on, enormous, made-from-scratch wearable sculptures.
I was distracted from the revelry by movement a few feet away from me, and just under my usual line of sight.
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Life’s an abyss and then you dive.
When you work on a movie or a play, there’s an inevitable nickname given to the production by the cast and/or crew (I once worked on a show dubbed Too Much To Do for Nothing. I have memories of many sequins).
Borrowed from a popular expression about the nature of life, the altered title reflected the strenuous working conditions on The Abyss. And in case you’re wondering, I heard that nickname from a member of the crew long before it hit the Internet.
The creative abyss has many guises
The creative abyss is a shape-shifter. A trickster. Its size, depth and nature are different, depending on who you talk to—and when.
