A Writer's Mandala

Nemonymous

Nemonymous

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The five progressions (where one's own specificity intersects) of a writer's mandala are shown below. Some are positive-to-negative progressions, others not.


(1) Means of fiction transmission
Mainstream professional .....Semi-professional ... Small or Independent Press ... Self-published (print or internet) (publication-on-reading?).... Vanity Press

(2) Personal drive (derived by money needs, ego, artistic conviction etc.?)
Publish at all costs (or at greatest reward?) .... Art For Art's Sake or kept in cupboard

(3) Perceived talent
Very skilled ... pedestrian.

(4) Market suitability of one's writing
Commercial (bestseller material) .... commercial mainstream .... jobbing writing ... uncommercial (acquired taste)

(5) Luck
Always in the right place at the right time ... always subject to sod's law.


The above spectra do not conflate but they do intersect.

des
http://www.weirdmonger.com
 
That's amazing, Silent One. Thanks! If you ever read my whole trilogy, one day, you'll know why I am amazed by what you have just written!

In any event, the writer's mandala has been updated:

(1) Means of fiction transmission
Mainstream professional .....Semi-professional ... Small or Independent Press ... Self-published (print or internet) (publication-on-reading?).... Vanity Press

(2) Personal drive (derived by money needs, ego, id, nemo, artistic conviction, some aspects in ( 8 ), etc.?)
Publish at all costs (or at greatest reward?) .... Art For Art's Sake or kept in cupboard

(3) Intra- and extra-perceived talent as a writer
Very skilled ... pedestrian.

(4) Market suitability of one's writing
Commercial (bestseller material) .... commercial mainstream .... jobbing writing ... uncommercial (acquired taste)

(5) Luck
Always in the right place at the right time ... always subject to sod's law.

(6) Legacy
Durable ... easily forgotten*

*example: typical airplane or beach reading.

(7) Fanbase
Millions .... Coterie
(for example a writer could have say 150,000 on a blog but another writer 5000 for a book).

( 8 ) Non-(3) Objective and Subjective Balance (humour, frame of mind, optimism/pessimism, intelligence (and/or memory), body/mind interaction, (il)logical abilities, creativity, sociability etc?)
Intra- and extra-perceived balance .... intra- and extra-perceived imbalance.
 
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