http://kirstyhall.co.uk/blog/2007/07/getting-beyond-beginners-mind/ Artist & curator Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/blog/2007/07/getting-beyond-beginners-mind/#comment-7 Jaspre Bark Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:18:43 +0000 http://kirstyhall.co.uk/blog/2007/07/getting-beyond-beginners-mind/#comment-7 Kirsty, Couldn't agree more about the need for formal training of some kind. As you know I write professionally in the fields of novel writing, children's books and comics. As you also know I have no formal education having left school at 16. However my training and its 'formality' has never stopped. This has been the case when I worked as a performer, a national journalist, a TV presenter and more lately as a creative writer. In all instances my training was and still is on going and has dramatically increased the quality of my work. Quite often finding out that you aren't as good as you initially think you are is an essential part of your training, because it allows you to realise how good you actually could be - if you put in the requisite time and application. The only drawback I know of training is that it tends to breed a particular type of creative practitioner who can't operate outside of the formal system of assessment offered by academia. So they spend their entire time going on courses and doing endless degrees instead of actually getting on and having a career. But in it's own way I suppose that is their career and it's still more positive than failing to live up to your potential by failing to learn how to be as good as you should be. Kirsty,
Couldn’t agree more about the need for formal training of some kind. As you know I write professionally in the fields of novel writing, children’s books and comics. As you also know I have no formal education having left school at 16. However my training and its ‘formality’ has never stopped. This has been the case when I worked as a performer, a national journalist, a TV presenter and more lately as a creative writer. In all instances my training was and still is on going and has dramatically increased the quality of my work. Quite often finding out that you aren’t as good as you initially think you are is an essential part of your training, because it allows you to realise how good you actually could be - if you put in the requisite time and application. The only drawback I know of training is that it tends to breed a particular type of creative practitioner who can’t operate outside of the formal system of assessment offered by academia. So they spend their entire time going on courses and doing endless degrees instead of actually getting on and having a career. But in it’s own way I suppose that is their career and it’s still more positive than failing to live up to your potential by failing to learn how to be as good as you should be.

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