I’m promoting the Steem blockchain in a news magazine
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@carlgnash I think you’ll appreciate this article, where I link to your Deranged Snowman competition and talk about how Steem/community helped me overcome writer’s block.
A Poet’s Meditations on Inspiration and Hope
However artists might lie to themselves or others in their personal lives, art-making is involuntarily truth-telling.
By Yahia Lababidi • Dec 21, 2019
A poem arrives like a hand in the dark.
Who knows where inspiration comes from, and where it goes. I submit that even artists don’t — at least not yours truly. After something of a dry patch, where I began to refer to myself as an “ex-writer,” I find that I’m writing poetry, again: three new pieces I’m pleased with, actually, in the past three days — a feat I’ve not achieved in years, possibly decades.
Blogging — something that I swore up and down I’d never do — has, certainly, helped to kickstart my creativity. For one, it forced this old dog to learn new tricks, since I began posting on a social blockchain by the name of Steem, where I was paid in cryptocurrency.
Also, one of the boons of joining a new community that thinks differently has been collaborating with other creative souls: visual artists who illustrated my writing as well as accomplished musicians who put my words to song, or transformed it into new art.
Inspired by this dynamic online platform and challenged by the new network of creative thinkers that I’ve become a part of, I find that I’m writing more and differently — so much so that I’ve begun to polish pieces I’ve posted on Steemit in order to include them as part of a forthcoming book of prose and poetry that I’m putting the finishing touches to, tentatively titled “Truths & Fictions.”
[You can read the full article, here]
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