spreading oneself too thin

[Marksman45]

I have engaged myself in a myriad of different projects. Musically, there is my favourite child the Dream & Shadow Huntsman Group, instro-rock band the Inner City Skeleton Coalition, collaborations with my friend Jordan (spoken word album "Everything Dies in September," emo band Kid Quiet, darkcore band Razors for Jewelry), and a collaboration with 3 insane friends of mine called "Beans & Dreams & Time Machines." In addition to all this, I am writing two novels, "Tales from Nowhere" and "You-Know-What," jotting down poems whenever they come to me, and painting if I feel like it. Now, I've just realized the quantity of all of this, but I don't feel that I've spread myself too thin. In fact, I really like doing as many different (both in the sense of separate from eachother and also being very different in nature) things as I can. I'm also reading about 3 books right now.

I have an innate difficulty getting things done, so I don't think the quantity of projectage has anything to do with it.

The DASHG gets priority, but I essentially just work on whatever fancies me at the moment. Does anyone else work this way? Or do you have difficulty getting anything done when involved in so many things at once?

[WIREMAN]

...never stop a flow......for example look at Picasso and Calder, as for writers Henry Miller was a watercolorist and Victor Hugo was quite a visualist.....the list goes on and on and on.....I have made it a point to concentrate on my wire and rebar sculptures in the visual realm, yet I constantly draw....and when it comes to writing ya know how wired I am.....and let's not forget music....just bought a new electric guitar last night.....then there's the bread and butter...puttin' rebar in big structures such as the new Museum of the American Indian....IMF in D.C. architect I.M. Pei and assoc. and presently I'm incharge of rebar at the Johns Hopkins Hosp. expansion here in Baltimore.....talk about a full plate.....and still i'm possesed to create...I move from one medium to another in a non stop quest to be...........wired

[Zlatko Waterman]

Dear Marksman:


I have performed onstage as a musician since I was 18 ( now 41 years ago) more or less continuously to the present. I play the better part of several instruments and have sung lead in most bands I have belonged to.

I was an English Lit. major in college and ended up teaching college English for a living for over thirty years. During that time I published four books of poetry, published over one hundred articles, essays and reviews (1968-2001) and wrote three full-length mystery genre novels, only one of which has seen print, and that in episodic form in a European, very obscure literary magazine, translated into German by a friend of mine.

My main avocation today is painting and drawing. Here is Doreen's site for my work:

http://www.studioeight.tv/artists/norma ... llory.html


I also show work on another site, maintained by my art agent:


http://www.windjunkie.net/wjstuff/artgallery.htm


Doreen is about to include me in her literary "stable" as soon as the StudioEight literary sites are launched.

The accusation has been leveled at me, as perhaps at you, that you "spread yourself too thin." Likely, also, is that you have been referred to in a complimentary way as a "Renaissance man."

It's safe to ignore both these characterizations, in my experience. The various media in which you work will sort themselves out eventually, and you will know where your greatest strengths are.

In the meantime, "cross-pollinate" all you can and enjoy it.

Your fellow "ditherer in the cosmos",


Zlatko

[Lightning Rod]

perhaps we should start a dilettante club

I do everything. not half as well as I would like

keep delving into your disorganization, mars

I have projects that have lasted for thirty years

and they are not done yet

one foot in front of the other

is the only way I know how to go

my only warning is

that if you get into the Leonardo realm of the indefinable

and know too much about everything

then it makes your product very hard to sell

[Marksman45]

I kinda figured there wasn't anything wrong with it... How could I go wrong just putting form to whatever wants to come out at the moment?


Zlatko, those ocean paintings are something else. I can hear the roar and smell the seasalt