To the creative souls of OH...

[Marinette]

Have a couple of questions for you: What is your biggest pet peeve as a creator? Or what annoys you the most? : D Or you can use this thread to rant/vent!

Probably the thing that gets on my nerve the most is that I always get the best ideas when I'm about to go to sleep. I am in no place to write them down these ideas anywhere,  and when I wake up I have forgotten about these ideas and I can't even remember them anymore.

[Marinette]

3 minutes ago, Chuan said:

This is probably my biggest peeve, which may now sound a little unreasonable.

As someone who takes time out in the day to think, I understand that my ideas are not totally new or original in the truest sense. Even then, I would still appreciate or like to have some acknowledgment.

It is not as unreasonable as you think it is!

Same here. I feel the same way as a writer! Sometimes my writing gets inspired by the series I've watched too. Or even comics books. And this makes wonder - is it actually my own original idea? Even if I know that I have also come up with a lot of my own material too.

I think that we currently live in the world where it is difficult to come up with something new- and especially with how many creative people are all around us. But from my own experience, I still feel like that the way we view everything - we still somehow bring newness

And I'm sure your ideas are appreciated! I am sure of that^^

[Marinette]

1 hour ago, eli said:

i also get my "best ideas" when im laying in bed at night, thats why i put a notebook under my pillow so i can write it down/sketch it out quickly. problem is every morning when i wake up i realize the ideas are shit and only my half sleeping brain thought they were good 

Oo! Makes me wonder if I should do the same thing and try to keep a journal underneath my pillow where I can write everything down Thankies!

44 minutes ago, Chuan said:

After a while, it starts to move away from the issue of creative ownership, and how ideas are generated, to what could be considered as a lack of basic courtesy and respect. It then becomes a battle of entitlement and perhaps a lack of general acceptance if something does not appear in the way it would otherwise be seen. In my view, creative industries are competitive and pulverising, especially to self-esteem. From my experience, the people who work/ed in them are sensitive to criticism, even if it may be considered harmless to someone else's standards.

On many occasions I have observed how some react dismissively towards others when regarding their creative works. It feels humiliating to know that some have invested their passion (and possibly their life work), only to receive feedback in the form of a sweeping generalisation. For example, an attempt to associate the amount of time spent in producing the content as being indicative of the perceived quality of the output. (More often than not, there's no correlation.)

But it ultimately forms a big part of the lived experience. These situations could otherwise teach you how to respond to others with class, composure and dignity.

I will be honest. I used to be sensitive to criticism when I was much younger. But as I aged older - I learned that criticism only helps me out. One can't live off of the praise entire time. Yes, it is nice to receive great words about your work (and it does pat my heart a lot). But I know that there's no way I can improve if I only get told nice things, imho. Like it holds me back from achieving my fullest potential and I know that there's a lot I can work on better. I just need someone to point me towards that direction.

I think artists are taught to compete against each other and to try out to outdo each other. There's so much flaws about it. We're also forced to compare each other against the other such as, "your work sells out more than mine!", "you are awarded but not me!", "you have more reviews than I do", "people talk about your works more than mine" and much more examples that I could think off of the top of my head.

Every single painter - has a client of their own .Every single writer has a reader of their own. And more so.  I think that world is creative enough to land a room for everyone in there. You can't expect to come up with an actually awesome idea that's brand new today. Because at this rate is nearly impossible  Sometimes simplicity wins the steady and nice race too. We live in the world where today fanfictions are turned into the movies.

Like you have to do better than the other in order to succeed.  I wish more people in creativity community would support and raise each other up more. And that we were not so taught to think that when one criticizes your work it means they're jealous of your success or that they are trying to belittle you. Of course, there will always be people like that, but sometimes people have other intentions and they're trying to help you to improve.

The only other thing that I suffer as an aspiring novelist - it is so difficult to find a trustworthy beta reader. The last 2 weeks have been difficult for me in a search. I've been contacted by 3 people, and while I sent them in my work - one ghosted me and 2 of them has never even wrote anything back to me (not even "hey, I received your work and etc" - so this sort of worries me). One of the reasons why I am looking for one so hard is because I need someone to give me a gentle nudge. Especially since it is my first novel I am exceptionally nervous about it.

I want to know if the story is engaging enough, if the reader finds themselves connecting to a story or a character, maybe they have some questions that I could answer in the novel and I don't leave it all unsaid, etc etc.

Feedback is really bad But I just thought it is just my luck only. Even as someone who works with Fanfictions occasionally, I get happy when I receive a response/feedback of any kind, but in the same time -  this is so rare. I'm lucky to receive 1 or 2 comments under my work. Some works - not even nothing.  But from the number of hits under my works, I assume that some of them still read it - liked it - just didn't have the time to muster out something to say about a work. And I guess it is okay.

So, I'm happy with as little as I get it - since I am used to it by now, butI'm ngl, I wish that at times I would receive more of it. It just feels nice to know that you're not writing all of this for yourself too.