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Sunday, November 28, 2004Obsessive-compulsive
I've written before about focus as it relates to the creation of art. And about my struggle with finding focus.
Today I read in the Los Angeles Times Magazine an interview with T.C. Boyle. Here's the quote that struck me: "It is an obsessive-compulsive disorder, creating art, and there's no way to stop it. It's how I describe fiction writing. This is it. I don't write film scripts. I don't care about money. I don't want to be a man of letters or write essays or histories. I don't want to do anything but write fiction. I think this single-mindedness is part of the reason for my success." On so many levels I agree with this. I have long believed the Napoleon Hill line of thought that says "don't think about money, and money will come to you." But I somehow smart when I read that "this single-mindedness is part of the reason for my success." I DO want to write film scripts and create TV shows and paint abstract canvases and perform insane (often times unlistenable) music. I want to be a publisher, an editor, a designer, a murder mystery novelist, a comic book writer, a kids book author. I often think that if I did nothing else but write fiction (and perhaps more specifically, adult literary novels) then, like the estimable Mr. T.C. Boyle, I would be "successful." Perhaps my single-mindedness is broader, though no less focused. Perhaps my obsession and my compulsion is to entertain. It's to tell stories. It's to make people feel. The difference is that mine is the long game. Which just means that finding focus, recognizing it, sticking to it, is that much harder. // posted at
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