Developing Story Ideas, 3rd Edition

23 Artistic Identity and Career

In Part II of this book you made an initial self-survey and a conjectural profile of your artistic identity. Since then, doing this book’s assignments has yielded hard evidence of those interests, characters, and predicaments that most intrigue you, as well as the genres you prefer. From solving a hundred practical problems, the pulse and bearing of your creative identity is now evident, so it’s time for a review.

Assignment 23–1: Revisiting Your Artistic Identity

• Step 1: Recapitulate the themes you tentatively identified in Assignment 3–1: Making a Private Self-Inventory (Marks and Themes).
• Step 2: Write a paper comparing them with the patterns and common denominators that emerged from your subsequent work. ...