http://tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] tjs-whatnot.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] tjs_whatnot 2006-07-06 03:33 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I think stereotyping was the wrong word. There are just some similarities that I've found throughout my life when dealing with writers. I really kind of liked when I noticed these things, it meant that I wasn't as weird as I thought I was. Or that I was as weird as I've always been told, but I was in good company with other like minded crazy people. Procrastination is a big one; we all got it from different experiences in our lives, but somehow we all achieved it and have learned to master it.

The drinking is something I had just assumed that most artists did, but I'm finding that maybe it's not necessarily everyones vice. I personally love to drink, but that's just me.

Now this math thing. That one, you sorta freaked me out. Because that was something that I thought I was the only one that went against the mold of artistic sensabilities. I have numbers in my head constantly, I'm doing percentages and figuring out different ways to find the same solution all the time with all sorts of random numbers. But when it comes to actual math in actual class, I always got in trouble because I used "Common Sense" to get the answer instead of a formula, and I couldn't explain how I had gotten the answer, it just made sense in my head.

So, it's not really stereotype I was talking about, just common idiosyncrasies that tell us we're unique, just like everyone else...

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