Artists have it better in general.

They create and their art can be appreciated almost immediately, I'm not saying that they have it easy, God knows that I've seen artists struggle with their muse, with their ideas and with themselves when it comes to creating a piece that they can be truly proud of.
I mean artists have it better in terms of the reception they get, people look at what they made and are responsive straight away, if it's good they will get almost instantaneous praise and applause, if it's bad then the critic will let them know there and then.

Writers on the other hand...

When someone writes something, they write it knowing that the majority of people will turn off straight away, that most people will just not have the time to sit still for who knows how long and read a story, the praise and/or criticism could take a while before it gets to the creator depending on how long the piece of work is.


Artists attack the eyes with information, they create worlds that can be seen and recognised, they create people who's lives can be traced back with the briefest glance and most importantly, they create their fantasy for others to see and feel.

Writers try to make people think and it's hit or miss, they are trying to create characters that the person will never see, worlds that will only be witnessed in a minds eye, they literally have to spell out the emotion of a character and hope it translates to the reader rather then have the viewer feel it for themselves.


I'm proud to class myself as a "wanna-be" writer, I try my best to create a world thats believeable and yet utterly ridiculous, but in a world of "tl;dr" (too long, didn't read) it gets harder and harder to make a stranger stick around.

Artists, painters, drawers and tracers will always be the super-cool kids in the playground of the arts.

Writers, will most likely be the kids leaning against the wall, staring out into that bustling black-top saying "I wish I was like them".


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These are my own thoughts and feeling about the world, they are based on what I think and come with no other study then what I think and see.
If you disagree then I'm not going to stop you.