{"id":40,"date":"2022-12-02T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2024-10-29T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T01:08:35","slug":"writing-strategy-from-a-graphic-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/02\/writing-strategy-from-a-graphic-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Strategy from a Graphic Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You know how it is. Somehow you come across a surprisingly interesting webpage or video, and you have no idea how you got there. So, I ended up on a YouTube video by a Blender guy. Blender is a free app, as in open source software, that allows talented users to design <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/download\/demo-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3D models<\/a>. You can make your own movies if you want or, more realistically, for one person, create some beautiful images. I tried Blender some years ago and decided that I am very far away from being an artist. Anyway, back to the video. The guy&#8217;s YouTube ID is &#8220;Blender Guru&#8221; but I discovered via another video he gave that his name is Andrew Price.<br>What was he talking about? In the first video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=39AV16MshrE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Too busy to learn Blender?<\/a> He discussed how an artist can work, and it was clear that it also applied to writing. He made four points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set a pre-determined project deadline. After the deadline do not touch your work again.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look for 10 minute windows to work in. Big blocks of time never eventuate or you may be distracted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose to do one small thing. Draw a single line, write a single word. One thing leads to another and it is often the resistance to starting that is the biggest hurdle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recognise the net gain in happiness. You will gain greater satisfaction from doing this than the brief feeling from being distracted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vM39qhXle4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Artists<\/a>, was given to a group of other Blender artists at a Blender conference. Briefly his 7 habits were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Daily work. Large planned blocks never eventuate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Volume, not perfection. Perfection undermines your growth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Steal. Find your idols and steal from them. From the book, &#8220;Steal Like an Artist.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conscious learning. Practice does not make perfect it also requires intelligent learning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rest. Let you subconscious work on problems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Get quality feedback.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create what you love.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Item 3, Steal<\/strong>, isn&#8217;t quite what it appears. Don&#8217;t just copy, but understand the ideas and use those, and thereby celebrate the original artists. He breaks it down this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><th>Good Theft<\/th><th>Bad Theft<\/th><\/tr><tr><td>honor<\/td><td>degrade<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>study<\/td><td>skim<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>steal from many<\/td><td>steal from one<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>credit<\/td><td>plagiarize<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>transform<\/td><td>imitate<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>remix<\/td><td>rip off<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any writer will recogise these issues as common to their own work. For me, the things that stand out, i.e. my flaws, are 1, 2, and 5. More if I was more honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter, 02 Dec 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how it is. Somehow you come across a surprisingly interesting webpage or video, and you have no idea how you got there. So, I ended up on a YouTube video by a Blender guy. Blender is a free app, as in open source software, that allows talented users to design 3D models. You &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/02\/writing-strategy-from-a-graphic-artist\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing Strategy from a Graphic Artist<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteryard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}