Re: floreat...
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:10:41 +1000
> This question always engaged me as I passed through the various
> ages in my own life. (`My God, at this stage, Alexander had
> conquered much of Asia.... Tolstoy had already written
> War & Peace.... Mozart was DEAD....')
(: I'm already doing that !
> It can only ever be a very subjective judgement but it does seem
> to me that different kinds of artist have different optimal periods.
> Poets tend to fade early, novelists come to a peak around
> their fifties whilst many painters & musicians seem to go on
> developing forever.
I agree - it's near impossible to categorically prescribe a formula for an
artists' career. Some have an early burst that fades away, others get
better and better. The thing that does excite me about a new writer,
though, is the fact that their early career tends to be a lot more diverse
than later on. It takes them a while to settle in to exactly what kind of
writer they'd like to be. Exactly who the writer they turn into is
determines whether or not they fall into the first or second of those
categories, but for a little while there it's all anticipation.
Camille
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