The Joy and Sorrows in the Life of an Artist; Judy Joy Jones.
The most challenging part of being a writer for me is having to look back.
Writing grants; depending on their specific requirements, I may be asked to list every accomplishment of my life.
And of course many stories I write are about past events so staying in the present is a challenge.
When a song comes thru me that's the easiest of the art forms!! Where and how it comes is a complete mystery and all I do is sing it in a recorder an magically its done!
Painting is second easiest!! "I" am not present and 'Pure Spirit' takes over!
Writing Opera librettos is very easy for me because life is Joy and Sorrow..just like Opera! And Opera's patrons want the passionate music set to the libretto to put them in heaven snd hell.
And writing ballet librettos is sheer ecstasy!! The beauty of the music, set decorations and dance hopefully lifts the audience watching my ballet librettos into a state of rapture as it does me while writing them.
When I fly to planet Mars, I'll get an 'in-between' job like delivering "Green Martian Mail"..as I heard the "in-between roles" are the best lots
in life!
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You are truly talented to be able to write and perform music so easily, especially for Opera and for ballet. And then be able to paint fluidly from "another state of being" is doubly amazing.
But we all have to eat, and I spent my life writing for whoever would pay me the most. Writing for grants is the hardest. There are such narrow requirements that it cramps my writing style and motives.
Ron