Creative Fiddling
Creative Fiddling
Inventing your own career
15 September 2024
I’ve been writing about someone who is an extraterrestrial fiddler, and what prompts him to adopt this profession during threatening times. It would be more accurate to say that he decides to invent his profession, because what he ends up doing is pretty unprecedented.
Writing that story reminded me of Lindsey Stirling, who may have invented the profession of Dancing Electric Violinist. Although she always wanted to dance and play the violin, she was handed some discouraging criticism when she tried to launch her career, and she was told that her performances would be “unmarketable.” She succeeded anyway, she has said, by remaining true to herself.
Many of her comments about her career might serve as a pep-talk for creative people.
Here’s a link to one of her most famous videos, “Crystallize”:
[image courtesy fanpop.com]Date
September 15, 2024
Author
Jan Stephens
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