Comments on: Unnecessary http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1322 Jason Scott's Weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:59:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ross k http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1322/comment-page-1#comment-4996 ross k Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:58:53 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1322#comment-4996 i dig the concepts you lay out here. i myself have flirted with the idea of "working it" to try to get my stuff out there. this ranges from courting galleries or submitting to journals. but at this point i submit a very small percentage of my output. most of it goes online, and i'm proud of having it there for whoever gives a crap. i look forward to your new doc, i ate the last one up! DELICIOUS ross i dig the concepts you lay out here. i myself have flirted with the idea of “working it” to try to get my stuff out there. this ranges from courting galleries or submitting to journals.

but at this point i submit a very small percentage of my output. most of it goes online, and i’m proud of having it there for whoever gives a crap.

i look forward to your new doc, i ate the last one up! DELICIOUS

ross

]]> By: Chris Orcutt http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1322/comment-page-1#comment-4995 Chris Orcutt Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:12:07 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1322#comment-4995 Besides what Ben Franklin said about advice ("Wise men don't need it, and fools won't heed it."), one thing we all learn if we create enough over a long enough period of time is that ultimately you have to do whatever you do your own way. You can't approach the making of your "stuff" using the tactics or elements of style that made another person what s/he is. To become an original you have to be willing to make mistakes and learn from those mistakes yourself. Sure, sometimes you can shorten the learning curve by following another creator's advice, but a funny thing about the advice most people give is this: they predicate what they suggest you do on what has worked for <i>them</i>. Few are the people in our lives who are willing, or able, to give us advice predicated on what they know will work for <i>us</i>. Jay summed this up when he wrote, "We're different things and we each can do what we do well enough; why waste our talents trying to be like the other?" Besides what Ben Franklin said about advice (”Wise men don’t need it, and fools won’t heed it.”), one thing we all learn if we create enough over a long enough period of time is that ultimately you have to do whatever you do your own way. You can’t approach the making of your “stuff” using the tactics or elements of style that made another person what s/he is. To become an original you have to be willing to make mistakes and learn from those mistakes yourself.

Sure, sometimes you can shorten the learning curve by following another creator’s advice, but a funny thing about the advice most people give is this: they predicate what they suggest you do on what has worked for them. Few are the people in our lives who are willing, or able, to give us advice predicated on what they know will work for us.

Jay summed this up when he wrote, “We’re different things and we each can do what we do well enough; why waste our talents trying to be like the other?”

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