i like to think about what it would be like to be an artist.
[{"role": "system", "content": "An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors). \"Artiste\" (the French for artist) is a variant used in English only in this context. Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism. Wiktionary defines the noun 'artist' (Singular: artist; Plural: artists) as follows: The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term \"artist\":   The Greek word \"techn\u011b\", often translated as \"art,\" implies mastery of any sort of craft. The adjectival Latin form of the word, \"technicus\", became the source of the English words technique, technology, technical. In Greek culture each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation:  No muse was identified with the visual arts of painting and sculpture. In ancient Greece sculptors and painters were held in low regard, somewhere between freemen and slaves, their work regarded as mere manual labour.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've thought before about being an artist.  I'm not really good at any given style of art, but practice makes perfect, am I right?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's very true, it takes dedication. But you know you could be a writer, technically they're artists too."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's a thought.  I'm a decent writer, and have a pretty good imagination.  What's your favorite genre of writing?  It could give me a kick to get started :)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Ever read The Dresden Files? Fantasy/mystery series, great world-building. I enjoy writing most when I get to world build like that!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I haven't, but I keep being told I should read them.  They do sound like they'd be something I'd enjoy.  Do you think that genre is oversaturated at this point?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I mean, the guy's written 15 of them at this point, and short stories, so there's clearly a market for it if you're good."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, didn't realize how many there were.  That makes it daunting to get started reading them, that's for sure.  But they're short, so shouldn't take long to get through I suppose."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, absolutely. It's easy to stay motivated when you can read through a whole story in one sitting. And it's worth it."}]