Fantastic share, thanks David!
2012/2/16 David Millstone <David.Millstone(a)valley.net>
The SharedWeight list grew out of a callers' class
at Pinewoods. The
impetus for setting up the list was to provide a way for callers to support
each other. The list includes many who are relatively new to the caller's
mic, plus others who've been calling for some time
I recently found something relevant by Ira Glass, host of "This American
Life" on public radio, and would like to bring it to the attention of new
callers in particular. He's talking in particular about storytelling,
making videos, but his comments apply to any creative endeavor, such as
calling dances.
David Millstone
Lebanon, NH
=== quoted material follows:
"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me.
All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste.
But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just
not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But
your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your
taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this
phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went
through years of this. We know our work doesn't have this special thing
that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just
starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and
the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a
deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going
through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will
be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do
this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take
awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through."
--Ira Glass
===
Here's a video clip of him talking, from which these quotes were taken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=BI23U7U2aUY<http://www.youtube.com/watc…
If you want to see the words animated:
http://vimeo.com/24715531
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