Comments on: Many artists succeed without fulfilling their audience’s need for familiarity, but not most. http://twentytwowords.com/2008/10/12/many-artists-succeed-without-fulfilling-their-audience%e2%80%99s-need-for-familiarity-but-not-most/ Curious | Cute | Comical | Crazy Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:51:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Piper, Abraham has 22 words, and 22 words has Piper, Abraham | S.D. Smith http://twentytwowords.com/2008/10/12/many-artists-succeed-without-fulfilling-their-audience%e2%80%99s-need-for-familiarity-but-not-most/#comment-25880 Piper, Abraham has 22 words, and 22 words has Piper, Abraham | S.D. Smith Sat, 16 May 2009 02:01:34 +0000 http://22words.wordpress.com/?p=1152#comment-25880 [...] Abraham has 22 words, and 22 words has Piper, Abraham “Many artists succeed without fulfilling their audience’s need for familiarity, but not most. If the work you produce is the kind that people only care about if they know you, don’t be [...] [...] Abraham has 22 words, and 22 words has Piper, Abraham “Many artists succeed without fulfilling their audience’s need for familiarity, but not most. If the work you produce is the kind that people only care about if they know you, don’t be [...]

]]> By: s.d. smith http://twentytwowords.com/2008/10/12/many-artists-succeed-without-fulfilling-their-audience%e2%80%99s-need-for-familiarity-but-not-most/#comment-25879 s.d. smith Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:27:11 +0000 http://22words.wordpress.com/?p=1152#comment-25879 Good thoughts. Also, I just figured out what you mean by 22 words. Beauty in boundary, tethered truth, fenced focus, ok, I'll stop. I like it. Good thoughts. Also, I just figured out what you mean by 22 words. Beauty in boundary, tethered truth, fenced focus, ok, I’ll stop.

I like it.

]]> By: Chris http://twentytwowords.com/2008/10/12/many-artists-succeed-without-fulfilling-their-audience%e2%80%99s-need-for-familiarity-but-not-most/#comment-25878 Chris Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:28:13 +0000 http://22words.wordpress.com/?p=1152#comment-25878 This is a great challenge to all of us who write. Perhaps this is why a writer will send something off to a publisher, thinking it is the best work she has ever done, and it comes back rejected. It is so meaningful personally, but not to most people? And I guess sometimes it is a matter of God's timing. When I applied for my first journalism assignment, all I had as to use for a clip was a decade old college lit. paper, and I immediately got an assignment that led to steady work after that. Not what I expected at first--all health issues--something I had no background or interest in (at least as a writer), but somehow as I prayed for a good angle and content, they turned out to be popular cover stories. I'm also so grateful to my editor then, Jeff Hileman at the Erie (PA) Times, who spent so much time showing me how to write for papers, since my degree was not in journalism. Now I just have a blog (and I say that to mean singly, not to mean that blogs are less important), that is really more like a personal journal. Yet others have blogs that are universally read and enjoyed, and some may even prove to be timeless. So some of our writing may be for personal growth and others for a wider audience. In many ways we cannot plan it; we just go with the circumstances as they unfold. This is a great challenge to all of us who write.

Perhaps this is why a writer will send something off to a publisher, thinking it is the best work she has ever done, and it comes back rejected. It is so meaningful personally, but not to most people?

And I guess sometimes it is a matter of God’s timing. When I applied for my first journalism assignment, all I had as to use for a clip was a decade old college lit. paper, and I immediately got an assignment that led to steady work after that. Not what I expected at first–all health issues–something I had no background or interest in (at least as a writer), but somehow as I prayed for a good angle and content, they turned out to be popular cover stories. I’m also so grateful to my editor then, Jeff Hileman at the Erie (PA) Times, who spent so much time showing me how to write for papers, since my degree was not in journalism.

Now I just have a blog (and I say that to mean singly, not to mean that blogs are less important), that is really more like a personal journal. Yet others have blogs that are universally read and enjoyed, and some may even prove to be timeless.

So some of our writing may be for personal growth and others for a wider audience. In many ways we cannot plan it; we just go with the circumstances as they unfold.

]]> By: ED... http://twentytwowords.com/2008/10/12/many-artists-succeed-without-fulfilling-their-audience%e2%80%99s-need-for-familiarity-but-not-most/#comment-25877 ED... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:41:34 +0000 http://22words.wordpress.com/?p=1152#comment-25877 Yep, people like folksy, for example. On the other hand, not everything worth saying has an element of familiarity. If knowable is the goal, it's worth distinguishing between popular and populist. ED... Yep, people like folksy, for example. On the other hand, not everything worth saying has an element of familiarity. If knowable is the goal, it’s worth distinguishing between popular and populist.

ED…

]]> By: Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/2008/10/12/many-artists-succeed-without-fulfilling-their-audience%e2%80%99s-need-for-familiarity-but-not-most/#comment-25876 Abraham Piper Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:56:20 +0000 http://22words.wordpress.com/?p=1152#comment-25876 Great point, Myrddin. If I'd written the post with that in mind it would've been better. I guess I'll have to settle for standing corrected in the comments section. Well, maybe not corrected, but improved. Great point, Myrddin. If I’d written the post with that in mind it would’ve been better.

I guess I’ll have to settle for standing corrected in the comments section. Well, maybe not corrected, but improved.

]]> By: Myrddin http://twentytwowords.com/2008/10/12/many-artists-succeed-without-fulfilling-their-audience%e2%80%99s-need-for-familiarity-but-not-most/#comment-25875 Myrddin Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:48:30 +0000 http://22words.wordpress.com/?p=1152#comment-25875 Or, I might say, probe deeper with your art until you're working from the place everyone knows. Or, I might say, probe deeper with your art until you’re working from the place everyone knows.

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