Today is Wisdom Wednesday! Hooray today I am sharing with you an article about support groups, critisim teams and the inklings. Click to see the entire article by David Burkus.
How Your Friends Affect Your Creative Work by David Burkus
For the modern creative, it has never been easier to show your work to audiences around the world. Connective technology has made it possible to collaborate on and display your projects across time zones and borders. But all of this connectivity comes at a cost: anonymity.
Criticism should strengthen the work and its creator.
Consider the famous (or infamous) writing group the “Inklings.” This was a group of British writers that included J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and many other prominent authors and poets of the time.
The purpose wasn’t to proudly show off finished works, almost everything read was a work in progress. In fact, legend has it that C.S. Lewis actually had to argue with Tolkien that the manuscript he’d been reading at meetings, working title The Lord of the Rings, was in fact strong enough for publication. But the primary purpose of the meeting was to just connect with similar souls and draw strength from each other.
We’ll need their criticism first and we’ll need their support long afterward.
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S.M. Bjarnson's thoughts:
I can truly if not wholeheartedly agree. I wish there were a modern version of the inklings, if there is and somehow I have forgotten to sign up, please contact me for the criticism. As being a writer we need the outside interpretation of where our manuscripts are heading. If they are good and what needs a good fixing. We develop and always should understand that our helpful peers are trying to assist us on our situations as we do on theirs. We appreciate the time it takes them to indulge themselves into our writings and artwork. Our response their efforts to understand should be highly respectful. No not every living and breathing human being with applaud every single word written. You aren't here to please people, you are here to heal them, entertain them, enlighten them. Prove that you are better than what skepticism says. We are not just word makers. We are the creators of the new world.
I can truly if not wholeheartedly agree. I wish there were a modern version of the inklings, if there is and somehow I have forgotten to sign up, please contact me for the criticism. As being a writer we need the outside interpretation of where our manuscripts are heading. If they are good and what needs a good fixing. We develop and always should understand that our helpful peers are trying to assist us on our situations as we do on theirs. We appreciate the time it takes them to indulge themselves into our writings and artwork. Our response their efforts to understand should be highly respectful. No not every living and breathing human being with applaud every single word written. You aren't here to please people, you are here to heal them, entertain them, enlighten them. Prove that you are better than what skepticism says. We are not just word makers. We are the creators of the new world.
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