How things get made

I'll get to this in detail later, but a friend posted an interesting article on the future of publishing that contained this passage, which I couldn't let slip by:

The difficult, solitary work of literary creation, however, demands rare individual talent and in fiction is almost never collaborative. Social networking may expose readers to this or that book but violates the solitude required to create artificial worlds with real people in them. Until it is ready to be shown to a trusted friend or editor, a writer's work in progress is intensely private. Dickens and Melville wrote in solitude on paper with pens; except for their use of typewriters and computers so have the hundreds of authors I have worked with over many years.

I'm fairly convinced the same applies to working in the studio as an artist...btu that's not the point, and we'll get back to it soon. Honest.