What if Your Art is Considered Old-Fashioned?

Gifted Underachievers · Jan 23, 2025 · 21m

All art forms cycle through phases and styles—fashion, dance, literature, visual arts, even acting. To wit: the ‘statuesque’ style of 18th-century actor John Kemble would have been laughed out of the theater today. And 21st-century literary agents don't want novels that open with long stretches of exposition (unless—maybe—the prose is stunning).

But what if you want to write, act, or paint in a style that’s now considered outmoded? Can you do that and still hope to sell your stuff? We toss around some ill-informed ideas and land on a sensible approach.

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