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MIYEON singing Forever Eve by TENBLANK @ i-dle's first japan tour day 1 [ 251004 ] cr. yejjo_

#A SINGER #WHO FCKNG SINGS #i-dle #miyeon #cho miyeon #idle #video #she's so good i want to scream #i meant to post this yesterday but i got caught up doing other things #1jt #i guess #idk does this tour have a name or it is just the first japan tour #forevereve

after deep consideration and the sad dating market, i have decided that the only good man in the world is kim jaehee

#IM GONNA GOBBLE HIM UP #185CM #A SINGER #KINDEST PERSON EVER #ONLY THING SEPARATING US IS THE SEA

Minka Mark being SINGLE-HANDEDLY the Cutest, most adorable, beautifulest, prettiest, most Amazing thing Mother Nature, the universe, and anything has created EVER. THIS IS PEAK HUMAN CREATION. This is the greatest achievement the human race has EVER accomplished.

Hello Pia, you recently shared a post about an idea "too good" to write. Could you maybe elaborate a little on that point? What does that mean to someone who appears to be quite skilled in creating stories and characters?

Sure!

I think everyone, at every stage in a skill they're honing, have goals they're trying to reach and skills they know they still need to work on. Even the folks who - from other people's perspective - seem like they (mostly) have it all together.

When I was working as an artist for example, I used inks and pencils at a professional level. I did natural history illustration at a professional level. I was very good at what I did and have sold the vast majority of everything I've ever illustrated!

But I'm still not skilled at drawing people (I'm getting better). I'm not skilled at oil paints or acrylics. And while some of my skills would transfer over pretty well (having a good eye, having a great sense of colour, having a decent sense of composition), it still remains that I have a lot to learn because being skilled in one thing is not being skilled at another.

And when you work like that and understand the craft like that, it gives you a different perspective. Folks who have zero ability in art might look at an artist's illustrations and simply assume they can easily transfer that to any medium or subject or technique, and folks who have more ability than the artist might look at their art and be like 'oh they're very good at animals and pencils but I've noticed they're weak on dynamic posturing and perspective.'

So where I'm at in writing is like this. I have a fair idea of my strengths, but I also have a fair idea of my weaknesses. There's certain very large scale ideas that I suspect I'm not yet ready for, because of either the scope of the plotting, or the depth of the worldbuilding. (I find worldbuilding easy. I find remembering all the details I created very hard).

There's also the fact that some of it is almost certainly fear. Like, fear of trying something new, fear of it going wrong, fear of making mistakes to get better. That absolutely is part of the journey, and the only way to overcome that is to get started and begin making the mistakes.

But no matter what level you're at, there's always a level you know you can't reach without more training and practice. The good news is a person doesn't always have to "grow" their skills relentlessly, just practicing what they love keeps what they do honed anyway. Like, I could stop here and keep writing the kinds of stories I write and do that for another ten years.

But I do want to keep growing, and keep learning new ways of telling stories, so...yeah, I do have story ideas that I know I'm not good enough to write (well) yet.

#asks and answers #personal #pia on writing #on writing #on art #the reality is you can also apply this to any skill #a master chef who specialises in Indian cuisine knows they're not a master of #all the other cuisines they've never mastered #many of which will have different techniques #it's the same whether you're a dancer #a singer #you play piano or guitar #whether you write fiction or nonfiction #there's no such thing as being 'done' and the #more you learn and become skilled #the more you realise that there's endless levels of specialisation #and you actually only know like a handful out of thousands just in your field #or: 'the more you know the more you realise you don't know'

Caught between thinking, what the fuck am I gonna do with my life, and, why should it matter all my dreams are too far-flung and I’m going to work at a McDonald’s for the rest of my life, again.

#because I really wanna be either an actor #a singer #or a YouTuber/streamer #and I also know those will never happen