Learning how to be true to your art.
My name is Jeffrey Michael Miller and I'm a Publishamerica poet with a new book out entitled " From The Inside Out ".
This article deals with a most important subject in my view and that
subject is how to be true to your art whatever that art may be. My art
is poetry so I'm going to use this as my example but feel free to apply
this article to any art you have a true passion for because I feel it's
universal.
I see so many people who enjoy writing being what I call crossover
artists who write in many genres but have no real specialty. I see
romance authors or science fiction authors also putting out poetry
books claiming to be authors/poets and this to me is troubling.
I am a poet who loves poetry and concentrates only on poetry so this
kind of thing when it comes to crossing over I personally find
insulting. The people who do this crossing over from genre to genre in
my opinion are just trying to get their names seen in as many places as
possible in the hope that in one it will stick and someone will see it.
I feel they care little for whatever genre they are writing under and
they only care for the press that comes from it. In the music industry
you don't see rappers/country artists so why in the literary world do
we see romance/science fiction/poets?
In my opinion the crossovers have no real passion or belief in any one
genre so they write in them all and to me it's disturbing. In my belief
they also lessen and take away from the accomplishments of true artists
solely dedicated to one genre and one genre alone.
You never see a proctologist/brain surgeon and so you shouldn't have
the fake author/poets of the world that lessen what poets do in the
art.
I study karate and I took the time to find a real street effective self
defense system of genuine value that is not used for sport or pretty
acrobatic shows. I have a passion for the art and I'm true to it not
wanting to mix it up with other things like a bad salad. It's already
perfect in every way to me without myself or someone else mixing things
in and changing it's real and effective and valuable origin.
I guess my message to crossovers would be to stop diluting the art we
care for by just dabbling in it and then calling yourself a poet
because you disgrace real poets by doing that. Take a look at what
happened to M.C. Hammer when he went and crossed over from dancing to
thug and you'll understand the phoney light real poets see you in.
Think about having passion and originality for once and be true to your
art with emphasis on the part that says your art. Leave ours alone and
stop diluting it with your novice work and overblown ego. Be true to
your art people.
Once you cross and change an art it ceases to be what it was and it
begins to change because of dabblers and crossovers looking for another
place to post their names and it sickens me.
If you know your true and real interest is not poetry then leave it to
the people who have it as a real and true interest and stick to writing
romance or whatever you do because you're not and never will be a poet.
