Your daily creative pep-talk!
Art is part of you. It comes from you, and it both shapes you and is shaped by you. You cannot lose it as long as you live.
You cannot LOSE your art.
Your daily creative pep-talk
Platforms, methods, and tools all change. Those things didn't make you an artist. YOU did.
Your daily creative pep-talk: November 14
Hope is a skill. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.
Your daily creative pep-talk
Fear will drive you to burning out. I know it's hard, creative, but take the time you need to heal.
Your daily creative pep-talk - and also, my birthday!
Happy birthday to me! It's time to make something new.
Your daily creative pep-talk
There is a reason they ban books. Art is the truest form of communication we have. Creative, it's time to do what you do WITHOUT shame.
November 9: Your Daily Creative Pep-Talk
In nature, all living things rest. Creative, it's time to learn to do that. (I promise—it will help your art.)
November 8: Your Daily Creative Pep-Talk
If it needs to be rage—writing about fire, creating paper mache to smash—do that.
If it needs to be grief—soft gray and wailing—do that. Creative, emotion will change your art. Embrace it.
November 6 Creative Pep-Talk: Well, Fuck.
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage."
November 5: Your Daily Creative Pep-Talk!
Creative, the reason you create can't be taken from you. It can't be changed by technology, or missed opportunities. Your "why" is a stone foundation beneath your feet—and it's time you got to know it better.
November 4: Your Daily Creative Pep-Talk!
If you aren't using your arm, is it still an arm? If your arm is BROKEN, is it still an arm?
Even if you're not creating right now, you're STILL an artist. You can't lose that identity, no matter what.
I make these videos every single day because the world is constantly trying to monetize us, to rob us of our human creative identity, and to destroy our independence.
We are not in competition. We are companions. Together, we will create.
November 3: Your daily creative pep-talk!
Didn't finish that book? That art piece? That sewing project?
Creative regret is chains around your feet. It's weights on your back.
There's good news: you don't need it.
November 2: Your daily creative pep-talk
The fear of making it "wrong" prevents us from doing anything at all. Instead, choose to do it wrong. Make crap! You'll grow as an artist, and get out of block faster.
Your daily pep-talk - we're tackling November, folks.
For many reasons, we aren’t doing NaNoWriMo this year.
For many more, we’re still creating. November, day one: setting your creative goal.
Your daily creative pep-talk!
It is a fearful thing to create. Vulnerable. Revealing.
That's where courage comes in.
Your daily creative pep-talk!
"There's no point starting now. I'll be so old by the time I..."
Creative, you'll be that old, anyway. You might as well have something fun to show for it.
Your daily creative pep-talk!
Want good technique? Don't stop now.
There's an order to creative growth. Courage, to start. Strength, gained as you persist. Technique, which you learn through the courage to build that strength.