Have you read David Foster Wallace's E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction? (I hope that link works; otherwise, check the first Google result.) I'm not at the level, yet, where I even think about marketing my work-I am still finding out what my work is-but that general idea of artists' (possibly necessary) loneliness reminded me of DFW's article, where he talks about the ironies of our voyeurism
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You know, it's funny that I didn't say a damn thing about my thesis in this post. My thesis is on collaborative literary creation sites, and strikes right at the heart of Romanticism as a formation point for the kind of isolationist narrative-building that plays out even to this day in authorial mythology. I selected British Romanticism because it hinges on a defensive response to rising industrialism, attempting most emphatically to assert the place of the individual against collectivist pressures -- and yet even here, collaboration in art abounded. In my thesis I thus deconstruct even the most famous collaborative creation sites to point out how the discursive language therein still holds individual artists to individual conceptions of Genius instead of nurturing a more fluid understanding of theme and community
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