Followup from Uncle Plottie

To follow up on yesterday's comments about creativity -- it seems to Plotnik that the people who burst into the inner circle are those with a singular vision. Those people are rarely any fun to be around. Plotnik has always been fun to be around, but he has to admit, with some chagrin, that breaking down every door in his way was probably never his first objective. The creative process? Oh, yes. He loved, and loves, every part of it, from the idea on through to the finished product.

But after that? Nice doesn't cut it. There are lots of people at the door, not only you, and you have to pay the price to get there before they do. And there's another door after the first one, and another one too.

This is not a value judgement. It does not say one kind of person is good and the other bad; on the contrary, what it says is that aspiring artists should take stock of their own personalities. We're pretty much the same at 60 and 40 as we were at 20 and 25.

In songwriter school they always teach about the collaboration between music and lyrics. An equally important collaboration is between artist and salesman. Remember that, kiddies, Uncle Plottie knows whereof he speaks.