If you have it in your brain that you won’t start making your art until you have a paying audience to fund your life from here on out, then you simply might not be one of us.

I say I do this for other people but I’m really doing it for myself.

It’s not ideal to go straight from a high-stimulation activity into a creative session. 

Can you imagine if I had picked one of those things and stuck with it?

We avoid artificial intelligence. Not because we’re better (we are), but because the creative experience is important for the viewer and the creator.

If this isn’t proof that no creative work can please everyone, I don’t know what is. 

Real designers, I assume, must have endless ideas and images and layouts floating around in their heads all the time that they just pull down from the ether. I don’t have that.

This was written more than 115 years ago. It somehow feels more relevant today. Check it out.

The biggest advantage you can have as a creative person is simply enjoying your life.

The accessibility of writing shows us the resistance was always inside us. It was our fear, our ego that kept us from writing. 

Even if you get a book deal with a big publishing house, “authors are often unhappy with marketing support or surprised at lack of support.

Here’s the tagline: “Learn to turn potential clients into paying clients with discovery calls.”

I’m such an AI hater. I routinely turn down what could be lucrative brand deals with AI video and text generation startups because it doesn’t sit right with me. However, I’ve found myself turning to AI for one specific task.

When pitching a client alone, especially a big budget, it’s easy to get in your head. It’s easy to talk yourself down, or to play it safe, instead of believing in your process and vision.

Is this accidentally a great social strategy?

If you’re a creative and you’re in the thick of a long challenge, be encouraged that I feel the same way today.

Part of the reason creative people jump from project to project might be because they haven’t found the thing they love yet. But a more likely explanation is that they have unrealistic expectations for their work.

As a younger creator, this would be all I could have daydreamed about. My favorite living author reshared my work. Now that I have more experience, I realize this is just another day.

“I don’t believe in draining the reservoir, do you see? I believe in getting up from the typewriter, away from it, while I still have things to say.”

 “How much should you charge your client for a video that looks like this?”