| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["life","idea"],"appCategory":"life","appTitle":"Have you ever abandoned a creative idea that you believed because others thought you would fail?","appBody":"<p>Yes but this time I think it was the right decision. Most of the time when we abandon something we believe in, especially creatively for other people's opinion, it mostly turns out that when we look back on it we regret the decision in retrospect, but in this case I really don't think that's the case, because I pretty much have no regrets.</p><p>It was at story I was about to work on at the time, a novel set in a dystopian future with a lot of peculiarities. I'm not really going to go into details of it now because I still think some of the basic elements of it might still be a good idea, but what I'm going to say is that I submitted it and I got a literary agent for it and while we working on it I was told that in the end it really wouldn't appeal to a larger commercial audience and it will appeal more to an esoteric one.</p><p>Of course I was fine with that, but at that time, with the money, work, and time that was needed to be put into it, it just wasn't a very faesible plan so to speak, and so I had to abandon it. I mean I can pretty much work on it further in the future at a time when I'm comfortable and I don't really need the commercial success and everything but I had to take that advice, seeing as it was coming from somebody who really knew what she was talking about, and not taking the advice would have been even a more terrible decision for me.</p><p>Of course it is easy to say that we should always stick to our guns and our beliefs all the time, but in reality most of the times there are really people who knows more than us in certain areas. And it might be more prudent and more pragmatic to listen to them.</p><p>It's basically a two-edged sword; where on the one hand you have people trying to bring you down and the community trying to tell you not to do something they're wrong about, and on the other hand you have people who really know what they're talking about and are telling you not to do it because they know it's really not going to succeed. </p><p>I guess in the end it all comes down to *your* decision and whether or not you trust the person who is giving the advice, but ultimately it can go either way and in my case I like to believe that I was really saved for making a mistake and going down a path that will turn out not to be as fruitful as I'd hoped.</p><p>But again, this is NOT to say that abandoning our creative instincts for others opinion--no matter how erudite--is always the best course. People do make mistakes! Even experts. And most of them are just calculated guesses anyway.</p><p>Plus ometimes the world has a way of putting us down, and in this cases we have to stick to our guns and our beliefs in our works and try our best to make it work. In fact most of the most terrific inventions that has ever been invented has at one time or another been doomed to not succeed. </p><p>Some of them might have even gone through a period of ridicule and failure before things turn around. For example the Eiffel tower when it was first designed was laughed at in the architectural community and most people thought it was a collosal failure to be mocked. But in the future it turned out to be one of the most amazing terrific wonders of the world. </p><p>Not to talk of the different authors and artist that didn't receive the recognition their works deserved during the early part of their career or maybe even during their whole lifetime! But as time went on on opinions began to change and they were finally appreciated by the future generations.</p><p>Which is why I say in conclusion that it's all about the middle way. It's about making the decision for yourself and not closing your mind to the possibilities. It may turn out that the advice to abandon your creative effort is out of a calculated expert assessment and you should probably take it, and it can also turn out that it is coming from an uncalculated perhaps biased standpoint. </p><p>In the end it all depends on you and the decision is all yours.</p><p>Cheers and have a nice day.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fk9rgr39x","appParentAuthor":"gungunkrishu","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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