Carmenere

minorearth:

Rambling today, because I’ve been thinking about this sort of thing all week.

There’s always some kind of discussion/vague argument going around about writing/creating for yourself versus creating for an audience. There are those who say “you should always create for yourself! If you’re not, you’re doing it totally wrong!” And there are those who say “When you’re an artist, of course you’re creating for an audience, it’s a human urge to want acknowledgement for the things you create!” As with pretty much every argument everywhere, my feelings about this have come to lie somewhere in the middle of these two. (It’s the eternal curse of being a Libra: always occupying the middle ground, never getting the pleasure of feeling righteous about one side or another. Heh.)

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 I just got home and found a shit-ton of debate on my dash, all about this one post. As it happens, I fall somewhere in between the camps; I have to write what I want to write, what I need to write. But do I get happy and squeal-y when I see that a post of mine has notes and comments? Of course I do, I’m human. Every artist craves praise, craves recognition. I enjoyed reading through all the comments and discussion on this post, because I think minorearth certainly has hit the nail on what a lot of us who aren’t the arbitrary “Tumblr-famous” feel when we create art in a fandom.

Summary: reblogging because you should read. And maybe save it to your hard drive so you can read again when you’re feeling artistically down.