Great! 'Starting Late' is a terrific topic. There's a lot of conventional wisdom that assumes that you have really take in something very early to be good at it - and yet, there's the practical refutation of a ton of great artists who started very late in life. It's a very rich subject to try to figure out what some of the dynamics are of this; and why the culture tends to be so misguided in its understanding of how creativity functions.
I love the "starting late" theme (or encouragement!) and the way you guide us toward and in reads we may not have found on our own. Thanks, Mary!
80!! That’s incredible. Makes we strangely think of Bukowski, who didn’t publish his first novel until he was fifty. Sounds like an interesting read!
Great! 'Starting Late' is a terrific topic. There's a lot of conventional wisdom that assumes that you have really take in something very early to be good at it - and yet, there's the practical refutation of a ton of great artists who started very late in life. It's a very rich subject to try to figure out what some of the dynamics are of this; and why the culture tends to be so misguided in its understanding of how creativity functions.