The 2 Products of a Blogger (and other artisans)

Hey, craftsperson! Hi!

You blog, right? (or you take pictures, you paint, you write poems, you invent things or concepts). Here’s a little patterntool from Paul Valéry for your pleasure :

1. Your article (and your past ones) can be considered as a state, a work which can be taken over, modified.
2. The product is your article, it stays, it’s independent : it makes sense for readers.
3. But the work of modeling, building and rebuilding has its own value.
4. The work you had to do reacted in you, changed you, and in a way invented another product, which is a more skillful and clever you.
5. You learn from what you write.
6. Feedback feeds the magician.
7. Your article is never really finished. You could make it better all the time, couldn’t you?
8. It could teach you something more, after all…
9. In a way, you learned so much working on it, that you could erase it completely and do it again. Better.
10. A craftsperson will be satisfied with his/her product when he/she learned enough from it.

 

Thanks for reading!

 

I’m much more interested in the work than in the product of the work

P. Valéry