{"id":1383,"date":"2015-04-29T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2016-06-10T00:55:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T07:55:53","slug":"the-broken-brush-writing-and-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"The Broken Brush: Writing and Painting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have not posted in this\u00c2\u00a0writing blog for a while due to a full-time commitment to painting in preparation for the Lady Bay Arts<\/a> show in West Bridgford on the weekend of 16th and 17th May.<\/p>\n

The actual physical act of painting has made me look at my writing ‘block’ in a different way and also with\u00c2\u00a0the benefit of hindsight my writing ‘career’ post M.A. in Creative Writing. ‘Doing’ rather than ‘thinking about doing’ which my writing has been sabotaged by has become a useful tool. I painting again because ignoring theory and influences and simply engaging directly in practice as Picasso says:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

I am only able to paint like I am now because of time off on career break and I made the right decision in leaving writing behind for a while. At this point in my life and with seven years teaching in an art school and an MA in Fine Art recently completed my head was always in a ‘art’ place. Trying to drop all that and go down a writing MA route was a mistake but one I had to make to lay at least two ghosts.<\/p>\n

1. My possible grandfather. If nothing else the MA course laid to rest that particular ghost. I feel free of that burden now. Having ‘revealed’ it I actually made it less not more important.<\/p>\n

2. I have to ‘do’ a MA in Creative Writing to be a writer…complete tosh but sadly a attitude that all to prevalent in this city. I have met many people claiming to be writers with MAs and many without. In both cases I’d say about 10% are actually writers….about same quota goes for the rest of the arts. Postgraduate arts academic qualifications\u00c2\u00a0are mostly for people who want to impress their friends and a small percentage of students who want to\u00c2\u00a0work in academia.<\/p>\n

So post ‘academic writing’ which is I reckon totally shot now what shall I do…<\/p>\n

Good question I\u00c2\u00a0no idea…answers on a postcard please.<\/p>\n

The only thing for certain is I will want to do it… if and when it starts again.<\/p>\n

It could be songwriting, poetry…historical research..or music reviewing again which I always enjoyed.<\/p>\n

As they say watch this space..literally all writing news will be posted here.<\/p>\n

As Harland Howard said when songs rejected for the umpteenth time..<\/p>\n

‘Always smile, shake their hands and walk away’…..:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have not posted in this\u00c2\u00a0writing blog for a while due to a full-time commitment to painting in preparation for the Lady Bay Arts show in West Bridgford on the weekend of 16th and 17th May. The actual physical act of painting has made me look at my writing ‘block’ in a different way and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39,60,38,33,46,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creative-writing","category-creative-writing-m-a","category-poetry","category-poets","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-mj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}