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There's a problem with success too soon. Or success at any time, actually, when you are talking about creative pursuits. Because most creatives occasionally wrestle with The Critics.
Not the critics out on the Internet, or in magazines or even your local artistic circle. The critics in your head. They're the worst, and often the hardest to compartmentalize. They have their uses, when you channel them properly. But if you let them take over the studio? You're in trouble.
Over on John Scalzi's blog Whatever, Paolo Bacigalupi talks about zagging when everyone else expects you to zig--and in so doing recentering yourself as an artist.
(He also mentions his new zombie book for kids. Hey, you silence your critics your way...he let his save the world from zombies.)
Not the critics out on the Internet, or in magazines or even your local artistic circle. The critics in your head. They're the worst, and often the hardest to compartmentalize. They have their uses, when you channel them properly. But if you let them take over the studio? You're in trouble.
Over on John Scalzi's blog Whatever, Paolo Bacigalupi talks about zagging when everyone else expects you to zig--and in so doing recentering yourself as an artist.
(He also mentions his new zombie book for kids. Hey, you silence your critics your way...he let his save the world from zombies.)
