Comment by tareqak

7 years ago

Continuing your list:

- Twitch streamers

- songwriters

- composers

- screenwriters

I think it might be a part of any artistic endeavour: you'd probably have to have a list of creative efforts that don't have this problem to try to get a smaller list.

As Steven Pressfield tells us in The War of Art:

"The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation."