I think that the concesensis is that this chapter is wordy. Everyone has said it. I think that this chapter is ment to scare artist, in the fact that its not easy to become an artist. When you are in school the professors are nice when they critict your work. When some one off the street, or a ceramics monthly editor will be a little more harsh. I think that is would be something that is hard to adjust to. That was the only thing that i could get out of it. It did make me think of Linda Christinson and Jeff Ostreicht when they talked about becoming an artist and it was hard then and that was a long time ago and its just harder now. CRAZY!