He took a lot of risks throughout his career and I am certain he will take more in the years to come. As creative souls, artists, whatever society calls us, we evolve through our work.<\/p>\n
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In the interview Sting remarks:<\/p>\n
“I won’t finish a song if I don’t think it’s particularly good. I might take a fragment of it and it might morph into something else….. Anything else, I don’t bother finishing.”<\/p>\n
As I contemplated those words, I thought of my own work and blogging. My mother and I were chatting yesterday and she asked me if I had written any new blogs recently. I said to her, “you know Mom…I see all these people with their blogs referring to other people’s writings and I see people on Twitter, ‘tweeting’ much the same. <\/p>\n
But, as for me, I want to be original. I want to write my own words and share them with the world. I know that I am not a ‘known brand’ in the world – YET<\/span>,<\/span> – but I am trying to establish myself as a writer. I want people to know what I can do. I want to share my own thoughts.”<\/p>\n So many articles I have read say that “you must blog everyday” to be successful, to drive people to your site and to keep them coming back. I struggle with that mandate, so-to-speak. On certain days, the inspiration for a great blog piece doesn’t come to mind. I don’t publish every blog I write because for some reason, I wasn’t particularly happy with it. I might have written it, saved it, re-read it the next day and said – you know what, I am not thrilled with that. I think I will just save it<\/em>.<\/p>\n I want my readers to feel inspired, to be moved, to know that someone understands and most of all, I want to share our human experiences with one another. <\/p>\n I guess then, I am right there with Sting. One could only hope that I will be as successful as he, in my own works of art.<\/p>\n I would love to hear some thoughts from my readers on what they think about this topic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I listened to an interview with Sting last night by Mark Goodier. I could listen to him talk for hours. He has been a favorite artist of mine for a long time now. Not only do I love his music, I admire him as a person. His persona is spiritual, somewhat eccentric, sensual and so very connected to the human experience. He has come out with a new box set called, Sting 25 years. A culmination of his work over the last quarter of a century. In this interview he talks through his thoughts as he made different pieces of music – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n