I'm not a musician
But I've made art and I write and in my opinion all three of these are the same inasmuch as plenty of people think they're easy to do...and they are.

But it's not just a matter of sitting down and knocking something up in half an hour and it's finished. It's all the redrafting - whether that's with writing, making art or music - it's all that time you spend making considered and informed choices about how you craft it into something worth sharing.

And I guess that's the difference between someone who dabbles in any creative form and someone who is a true amateur or professional (and I'm using the original definition of amateur here - Lover of).



Bloody hell I do procrastinate.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 15:24, Reply)