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5 December 2020 14:36![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
m_d_hThinking about the thinking about re-reading the Mars Trilogy, I think I'll be watching this as I re-read -- how do you manage this, how do you write a story this sprawling, how do you keep it all inside your head while writing it, all the characters and continuity, The First Hundred on Mars,
Having run through NaNoWriMo last month I'm feeling about reading now the same way I felt about listening to music after I created my own eight years ago -- it's not just a consumption process, it's analyzing how the product was made, analyzing how I would make a similar or different product, and the feelings that go into creating the work -- not the product, the work,
This is what creating art does for me -- it intensifies my appreciation of the art others have created -- walking a mile in, not their shoes, but any shoes, just walking the mile, appreciating those who walk any mile, taking each step, crafting each step, showing off the finished product to others. Maybe we'll like it, maybe we won't, taking that risk, like asking that boy out, he might say no, but you have to ask,
It's a realization of the humanity in art, the soul, the sentience, the communication -- the connection. Now I feel like I'm teaching an art history class LOL. Sorry, I'm vomiting rainbows again, heh.
Will I really do this, though, or will I lose interest. Am I committed to re-reading this sprawling epic? Seven years (minus a couple months) sounds like a good budget for it. There's an opportunity cost, what I won't be reading instead. I feel like somebody who has declared he will now re-read Proust. So much lichen.
Having run through NaNoWriMo last month I'm feeling about reading now the same way I felt about listening to music after I created my own eight years ago -- it's not just a consumption process, it's analyzing how the product was made, analyzing how I would make a similar or different product, and the feelings that go into creating the work -- not the product, the work,
This is what creating art does for me -- it intensifies my appreciation of the art others have created -- walking a mile in, not their shoes, but any shoes, just walking the mile, appreciating those who walk any mile, taking each step, crafting each step, showing off the finished product to others. Maybe we'll like it, maybe we won't, taking that risk, like asking that boy out, he might say no, but you have to ask,
It's a realization of the humanity in art, the soul, the sentience, the communication -- the connection. Now I feel like I'm teaching an art history class LOL. Sorry, I'm vomiting rainbows again, heh.
Will I really do this, though, or will I lose interest. Am I committed to re-reading this sprawling epic? Seven years (minus a couple months) sounds like a good budget for it. There's an opportunity cost, what I won't be reading instead. I feel like somebody who has declared he will now re-read Proust. So much lichen.