A fabulous collaboration and TOPIC, Mohika and Abhishek! I'm with you on the doing what you love for the sake of doing what you love; not to do it so that you can eat! Even if one gets a publishing deal and finds it brings a little financial bonus, to turn it into a 'job' has the potential of taking the joy right out of it. Well DONE! Appreciate this discussion. Many blessings and MUCH LOVE! ~Wendy💜
I somewhat agree with Abhishek. But there is one side of me always think of pursuing the monetary side. It will be liberating if you start earning from your hobby, but then again a constant pressure of producing more and more content will kill the creative journey.
But it could do the opposite as well. The more you push yourself, the more you create quality work. I believe if you want to be a writer then give your hundred percent. Of course you will fail, but you will also learn from it.
Thanks for the perspective Jeet. I get what you want to communicate and it is valid to some extent.
As we mentioned, not against earning money from hobby, but it shouldn't feel like a job. There's nothing like earning money from hobby, but it that costs you the purpose and fun of creating something, I would rather have my Doner Kebab and coffee :)
First and foremost, Pepper’s writing is exquisite and authentic. Writing for me is my art-form and he truly has given me something to aspire to. At a loss for words, I will express the effect of Pepper’s writing on my soul and my heart by quoting David Foster Wallace, who sadly we lost so early: ‘What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’ve got their own vision; their own way of fracturing reality and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.’ I have no choice but to use Wallace’s words because Pepper’s homage to the nobility of his grandmother is so authentic and true and boy oh boy, I definitely felt it in my nerve endings. And the reader can certainly sense that, for Pepper, this was a labor of love. It seems as if everything his grandmother did was done mindfully with grace: that she lived her life through grace and that everything she did, Roxie did fully in the present moment and that no matter what she did, she considered all tasks as sacrosanct, and that she was filled with gratitude for the gift of life, despite her disability. Colin Mac Rae “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart. Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at my emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” Helen Keller
A fabulous collaboration and TOPIC, Mohika and Abhishek! I'm with you on the doing what you love for the sake of doing what you love; not to do it so that you can eat! Even if one gets a publishing deal and finds it brings a little financial bonus, to turn it into a 'job' has the potential of taking the joy right out of it. Well DONE! Appreciate this discussion. Many blessings and MUCH LOVE! ~Wendy💜
Thank you! So glad you love it!
I somewhat agree with Abhishek. But there is one side of me always think of pursuing the monetary side. It will be liberating if you start earning from your hobby, but then again a constant pressure of producing more and more content will kill the creative journey.
But it could do the opposite as well. The more you push yourself, the more you create quality work. I believe if you want to be a writer then give your hundred percent. Of course you will fail, but you will also learn from it.
Thanks for the perspective Jeet. I get what you want to communicate and it is valid to some extent.
As we mentioned, not against earning money from hobby, but it shouldn't feel like a job. There's nothing like earning money from hobby, but it that costs you the purpose and fun of creating something, I would rather have my Doner Kebab and coffee :)
First and foremost, Pepper’s writing is exquisite and authentic. Writing for me is my art-form and he truly has given me something to aspire to. At a loss for words, I will express the effect of Pepper’s writing on my soul and my heart by quoting David Foster Wallace, who sadly we lost so early: ‘What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’ve got their own vision; their own way of fracturing reality and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.’ I have no choice but to use Wallace’s words because Pepper’s homage to the nobility of his grandmother is so authentic and true and boy oh boy, I definitely felt it in my nerve endings. And the reader can certainly sense that, for Pepper, this was a labor of love. It seems as if everything his grandmother did was done mindfully with grace: that she lived her life through grace and that everything she did, Roxie did fully in the present moment and that no matter what she did, she considered all tasks as sacrosanct, and that she was filled with gratitude for the gift of life, despite her disability. Colin Mac Rae “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart. Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at my emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” Helen Keller
Sadly there is no career path in watching daytime tv while consuming chocolate ice cream!
So glad we did this Mohika! Thank you for collaborating with me😄
loved this!
Thank you Harshal!