no. 9 of yoodi’s Night Watch Teaser Poster series
Truth. If you’re serious about being an artist, you will work harder than anyone you know for less money than any of them make and they will expect you to be happy about it. :) And you should be. You chose this life. If you don’t like it, it’s /your/ fault. :)
Here is a really really quick comic about “DOING WHAT YOU LOVE.” Will do a better version when I have a chance. If you can’t tell, I HATE THE PHRASE DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND THE REST WILL FOLLOW.
Write. For more than three years I wrote more than 400 words every day. I mean, every calendar day. If for some reason, in those pre-portable days, I couldn’t get to a keyboard, I wrote hard the previous night and caught up the following day, and if it ever seemed that it was easy to do the average I upped the average. I also did a hell of a lot of editing afterwards but the point was there was something there to edit. I had a more than full-time job as well. I hate to say this, but most of the successful (well, okay… rich) authors I know seem to put ‘application’ around the top of the list of How-to-do-its. Tough but true.
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| — | Terry Pratchett (via mystmoon) |
Hit the link to see what he actually wrote there. It’s heart warmingly childlike and just goes to show that some things never change. I hope Onfin grew up and was happy. :)
Doodles by a child in Medieval Novgorod.
The Art of Onfim: Medieval Novgorod Through the Eyes of a Child
Ah, see now that explains everything.
hammpix: For those of you who don’t understand archaeology, I have made a diagram.
