How to start writing as an artist?

copyright Dorothée King

King, D.: How to start writing as an artist?, published on medium, 2020

Somehow for art students — mostly working with non-verbal artistic materials — sitting down to write is either seen as an unnecessary burden, or is turned into an artistic endeavor itself (an opportunity to twist every little piece of information into artistic prose). Academic writing seems to be foreign and challenging. As a teacher I felt I had to convince my students in one way or other to start writing.

It took me a while myself to understand that writing can be a very helpful tool to clarify, specify, back-up and publish one’s ideas: to contextualize your thoughts by researching…$

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