Todd Brison, a prominent Medium writer, once told the story behind his book The Creative’s Curse. After years of writing on Medium, one of his stories went viral. For a short time, he enjoyed fame. His article had thousands of views, was widely shared, and received hundreds of comments. Then it all died as quickly as it arose. And once again, he went back to obscurity.
First of all, your cartoon was soooo expressive that it compelled me to read the article, even if I am late and should be already out! Second: I struggled for years making music with a good jack and a bad jack dialoguing and fighting in my head, sometimes I shouted at them to stop and let me play, but they took the stage again. The bad one was straight, telling me what was rubbish, but the “good” one was actually worse, he was mean: as he was complimenting me just to tell me: you won’t think you can do it again, uh? You cannot get along so good, you’ll soon make a mistake… So, I’d love to read your dialogues with jack, especially now that you made such a good cartoon portrait of him!
Writing such a story makes for a good read to me. I too have that jack on the box critic too. Sometimes he’s right but you don’t have to listen all the time . Just block out it’s voice and do your thing. The problem is, we tend to feel everything should be perfect but it’s with mistakes we learn our most valuable lessons that makes us get better as a person and what we do .
First of all, your cartoon was soooo expressive that it compelled me to read the article, even if I am late and should be already out! Second: I struggled for years making music with a good jack and a bad jack dialoguing and fighting in my head, sometimes I shouted at them to stop and let me play, but they took the stage again. The bad one was straight, telling me what was rubbish, but the “good” one was actually worse, he was mean: as he was complimenting me just to tell me: you won’t think you can do it again, uh? You cannot get along so good, you’ll soon make a mistake… So, I’d love to read your dialogues with jack, especially now that you made such a good cartoon portrait of him!
Writing such a story makes for a good read to me. I too have that jack on the box critic too. Sometimes he’s right but you don’t have to listen all the time . Just block out it’s voice and do your thing. The problem is, we tend to feel everything should be perfect but it’s with mistakes we learn our most valuable lessons that makes us get better as a person and what we do .