Do you have fear of success?

[Nugtown]

I think my personal definition of success is more like, i've finally printed it exactly the way I want it and own a copy. After all, that is my ultimate goal and it doesn't matter to me much whether I have five or six fans or just one. Typically more support makes printing costs easier to handle though i'm sure.

I am personally more cautious about response, my insano style brain loves new ideas a little too much. In addition to having to play the role of everyone's perfect pet OnLine. I really just want to draw. I've never had the skills to be the social media manager, businessman, and ultra friendly never having a single disagreeable opinion ever person all in one.

Why is it so hard to be an artist.

[KSlinger]

I don't know. Maybe? Success for me would just be to have a lot of people enjoy my work but I'm enjoying flying under the radar right now. It's less pressure. I have a job and a life. We could always use the extra money, but I can't see much good coming from going viral or anything else. I wouldn't have time to make the most of it.

[TheLemmaLlama]

The fear comes from secondary consequences of success... Attention. New commitments. Criticisms. General change to the status quo of life.

Hooray for internet anonymity! I honestly don't fear this stuff, because even if my work gets really popular, that doesn't really mean I have to commit to making more stuff (or a certain quality of stuff) or change the status quo of my life. Except for criticism. Anonymity doesn't shield you from criticism (As for attention, that's basically equivalent to the 'success' I'm aiming for in the first place XD)

Fear that we won't be able to sustain our success beyond that flash in the pan.

I guess I personally aim for the success of each individual story, rather than being successful as a creator. And as far as I know, once a story is finished, its ongoing success/visibility if really out of your hands; most finished works only have a period of fame for like a year or two and possibly get brought up years and decades later as a classic if you're lucky.

That's all I really want; I don't particular care to be someone who consistently puts out successful content to sustain my personal success, so this isn't really a fear of mine either

[system]

This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.