Anonymous
10/29/2025, 2:58:51 PM
No.24839002
>>24838921
>>24838925
I like it anon, particularly with the added context about it being inspired by an Arab friend. I’ve recently taken up writing and drawing/visual arts myself as a means of self expression after I swore them off for years. Getting back into it has been very humbling, because I need to have patience with myself and my deteriorated abilities, particularly with drawing. At the same time I think there’s something inherently futile about taking creative expressions seriously, and within the past few months I’ve oscillated between extreme optimism and total pessimism in my prospects this will lead to anything meaningful. I managed to get one little pissant poem “published” in a local magazine with nothing on the other side of it, so I get the hopelessness but at the end of the day it’s still an achievement. Some other person saw value in what you produced and decided it was worthwhile to be printed.
If you already have some skills in the visual arts you might be able to parlay that into something a bit more rewarding than writing, at least from a financial perspective but it’s still hard. It’s best to just view yourself as an artist. I always look up to multidisciplinary artists because you can see how different mediums inform and influence one another, and I think in your case that might be a good way to view your writing without completely seeing it as time wasted. Start trying to see how potentially your creative vision in regards to writing might inform your visual art stuff going forward in some way, because ultimately it all comes out to you and there’s some kind of connection. Then the time spent writing won’t feel like a waste and you’ll be able to look back at it with some fondness. At least that’s my view on it all.
>>24838925
I like it anon, particularly with the added context about it being inspired by an Arab friend. I’ve recently taken up writing and drawing/visual arts myself as a means of self expression after I swore them off for years. Getting back into it has been very humbling, because I need to have patience with myself and my deteriorated abilities, particularly with drawing. At the same time I think there’s something inherently futile about taking creative expressions seriously, and within the past few months I’ve oscillated between extreme optimism and total pessimism in my prospects this will lead to anything meaningful. I managed to get one little pissant poem “published” in a local magazine with nothing on the other side of it, so I get the hopelessness but at the end of the day it’s still an achievement. Some other person saw value in what you produced and decided it was worthwhile to be printed.
If you already have some skills in the visual arts you might be able to parlay that into something a bit more rewarding than writing, at least from a financial perspective but it’s still hard. It’s best to just view yourself as an artist. I always look up to multidisciplinary artists because you can see how different mediums inform and influence one another, and I think in your case that might be a good way to view your writing without completely seeing it as time wasted. Start trying to see how potentially your creative vision in regards to writing might inform your visual art stuff going forward in some way, because ultimately it all comes out to you and there’s some kind of connection. Then the time spent writing won’t feel like a waste and you’ll be able to look back at it with some fondness. At least that’s my view on it all.