Post by Yuutsumi on Sept 17, 2008 19:18:31 GMT -8
In 2001, I was in an English Major in a screenwriting workshop. Our instructor was a famous playwright, and her philosophy was great writers and great artists only become great if they believe in what their doing, and it can be hard to believe yourself if people tell you to "fix it" all the time. So she ran her writer workshops in the following format:
To know what your audience thinks you did right should always be a given. It helps you play to your strengths.
To know what you did wrong is optional--and is easier to take if you know what you did right first. While taking care of mistakes and problems is important. Corrections to plot, character, realism, structure, action, style and language are meaningless if you don't know what you did right.
Just about everyone who got through her class (she demanded 20 pages a week!) was a better writer when they were done. So that's why I wanted this format(I hope you all like it).
Writers and Artists by nature are neurotic, at times so when they receive only criticism they wallow in lapses of depression causing zits on their foreheads or blind arrogance and won't listen to anyone(both are horrible misfortunes!).
So in the spirit of those writing workshops in mind... all artists must post their artwork here to receive positive feedback and know there own strengths and that their vision has value, even if we "tear you a new one" in the constructive critiques.
Alan Moore more said that a writer and artist only have one thing to offer and that's their vision, if they compromise that vision and try to sell out or draw like someone else... they will be less of an artist because they will be less of who they are.
To know what your audience thinks you did right should always be a given. It helps you play to your strengths.
To know what you did wrong is optional--and is easier to take if you know what you did right first. While taking care of mistakes and problems is important. Corrections to plot, character, realism, structure, action, style and language are meaningless if you don't know what you did right.
Just about everyone who got through her class (she demanded 20 pages a week!) was a better writer when they were done. So that's why I wanted this format(I hope you all like it).
Writers and Artists by nature are neurotic, at times so when they receive only criticism they wallow in lapses of depression causing zits on their foreheads or blind arrogance and won't listen to anyone(both are horrible misfortunes!).
So in the spirit of those writing workshops in mind... all artists must post their artwork here to receive positive feedback and know there own strengths and that their vision has value, even if we "tear you a new one" in the constructive critiques.
Alan Moore more said that a writer and artist only have one thing to offer and that's their vision, if they compromise that vision and try to sell out or draw like someone else... they will be less of an artist because they will be less of who they are.