Solitary vices
Making the young people's music is accepted as often-collaborative (even though one member of a band sometimes carries the others). Creative writing is often assumed to be solitary (even though writing often takes editorial conversations, mutual inspirations, sounding boards etc.).
I think that's sad, because many an excellent creative partnership or group doesn't happen. Reading up on the Beats, one critic suggested that they only cam about because the young Allan Ginsberg was determined that his friends would be Genius writers. As the saying goes, I couldn't find the books I wanted to read, so I [put the screws on a friend until they] wrote them.
In brief, I really wish there were posters all over my campus inviting people to form artistic or intellectual movements. 'WE NEED A RENEGADE IMAGIST POET! Join our nascent hothouse. Influences include Bloomsbury, Beat, Violet Quill Club. NO DRUG-INFLUENCED AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC PSYCHOGEOGRAPHERS NEED APPLY.'
I think that's sad, because many an excellent creative partnership or group doesn't happen. Reading up on the Beats, one critic suggested that they only cam about because the young Allan Ginsberg was determined that his friends would be Genius writers. As the saying goes, I couldn't find the books I wanted to read, so I [put the screws on a friend until they] wrote them.
In brief, I really wish there were posters all over my campus inviting people to form artistic or intellectual movements. 'WE NEED A RENEGADE IMAGIST POET! Join our nascent hothouse. Influences include Bloomsbury, Beat, Violet Quill Club. NO DRUG-INFLUENCED AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC PSYCHOGEOGRAPHERS NEED APPLY.'