sometimes....a person has something meaningful that they want to say/share with other people. i know it sounds crazy, and it's a total reversal of the more popular idea: "make sure to post something at least once a week" but it does happen.
fugazi (as i remember it): if you had to get paid to say it, you probably had nothing important to say.
on the other hand..when someone has something important to say, the mind is just looking for any way to get it out there, and above the noise.
i believe that when something is really eating at you, something about society, something about the world, a perspective, an idea -- when things cannot be summarized into a snippet or tweet, or a single blog post, which is to say, when they are truly meaningful - then there's relief once you know it made it to the audience.
all that effort put into the book, or whatever, was working towards that release....this is why some people don't get what makes great art - the creative world seems 'flimsy', lacks orientation, weird -- but the good stuff usually very much has a direction - just an atypical one, that breaks the conventions. there is a drive in these people....and it's not money, it's an idea, and they are its slaves.
huck finn has been described as something inside of twain - huck finn needed to get out. everytime twain talked to his black friends, everytime twain read the newspaper, everytime twain reflected on those trips abroad, huck finn scratched on the inside, trying to get out. yah, the book made money, but i'm sure there was a real high inside of twain when he knew it had been read, when he knew that finn got his say, when the book was being discussed.
perhaps someday an idea will rise up in your mind, not a business idea, not something that can get you some more pillows for your sofas, but a meaningful idea, an idea that affects your core, an idea that you feel needs to be shared, and then you won't wonder anymore why some people write things like an "authors reward is to be read."
like i mentioned earlier, those kind of ideas take a lot of work to share, you don't just write a blog post -- truly meaningful ideas, ideas outside the current social mindsets, have to build up their language, their perspectives, their new contexts, over chapter, over time and to bring others with them, they have to do it well. until they finish that hard work, the idea is festering inside, trying to get out.
fugazi (as i remember it): if you had to get paid to say it, you probably had nothing important to say.
on the other hand..when someone has something important to say, the mind is just looking for any way to get it out there, and above the noise.
i believe that when something is really eating at you, something about society, something about the world, a perspective, an idea -- when things cannot be summarized into a snippet or tweet, or a single blog post, which is to say, when they are truly meaningful - then there's relief once you know it made it to the audience.
all that effort put into the book, or whatever, was working towards that release....this is why some people don't get what makes great art - the creative world seems 'flimsy', lacks orientation, weird -- but the good stuff usually very much has a direction - just an atypical one, that breaks the conventions. there is a drive in these people....and it's not money, it's an idea, and they are its slaves.
huck finn has been described as something inside of twain - huck finn needed to get out. everytime twain talked to his black friends, everytime twain read the newspaper, everytime twain reflected on those trips abroad, huck finn scratched on the inside, trying to get out. yah, the book made money, but i'm sure there was a real high inside of twain when he knew it had been read, when he knew that finn got his say, when the book was being discussed.
perhaps someday an idea will rise up in your mind, not a business idea, not something that can get you some more pillows for your sofas, but a meaningful idea, an idea that affects your core, an idea that you feel needs to be shared, and then you won't wonder anymore why some people write things like an "authors reward is to be read."
like i mentioned earlier, those kind of ideas take a lot of work to share, you don't just write a blog post -- truly meaningful ideas, ideas outside the current social mindsets, have to build up their language, their perspectives, their new contexts, over chapter, over time and to bring others with them, they have to do it well. until they finish that hard work, the idea is festering inside, trying to get out.