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A Small Boost for Your Creative Life
As a thank you to all the creative, thoughtful, wonderfully original people who have found me here recently, I’m sharing a modest gift.
Manifest Your Creative Life is a short collection of encouraging reminders, mantras, and strategies for managing your self-doubt as a creative person. (You can download it for free.)
Because we need all the support and encouragement we can get.
The truth is, being an artist isn’t normalized in Western culture, generally speaking (excluding celebrities).
We’re outsiders. We’re told to stop daydreaming, or to get a real job, or to focus on the job you have.
No wonder you have doubts about your identity as a writer or an artist.
There’s a real disconnect happening — and it’s not your fault at all.
Have you seen the Progressive Insurance TV commercial (in the U.S., anyway), where a pigeon types gibberish on a computer screen and says he’s working on his novel?
Oh, isn’t that a silly thing to do! Write a novel? Come on!
Creative people make other people uncomfortable, even people who love them.
They don’t see the world as you do. They don’t understand what you’re after, how your brain works.
