I’ve been writing here in 21 for about a year before I discovered a direction I’m comfortable with going for the next year or so, and that’s about living the creative life.
It seems obvious in retrospect – I’m a full-time writer who’s also been a full-time 3D artist, who studied digital media design in school and loves creative arts like graphic design and photography. Big duh.
But I always thought of them as separate things (well, they are). Subdued by the belief that only people who specialize are serious professionals, I thought of myself as a wannabe Jack-of-all-trades goofball, instead of realizing that the one denominator that links all of them up is the act of creativity.
So there it is. I dig the creative act and I want to write more about it. Thing is, I don’t think I would have been able to figure that far out if I hadn’t been writing about random topics at 21. The act of writing, thinking and looking back at what I’ve written has been as much a journey of self-discovery as it has been an act of self-expression.
And that’s one unfortunate aspect, I think, of some of the blogs out there that are trying to make it too hard, too fast. They specialize too early and then lock themselves in, without allowing themselves the chance to grow, explore and change.
Maybe I’m the wrong guy to get on a high-horse – I’m hardly a shining paragon of self-publishing mad success (if I were, I wouldn’t be here! bwahahaha–sob). But I do know that the act of writing, if you let it, has the potential to open up so much more than niches, SEOs and sales pitches, it can also open you to yourself and let you know yourself that little bit more.