Category: Fellow Creatives
(Artwork by Martina_Bulkova on Pixabay) We are regularly surrounded by creative outputs by very talented people—amazing artwork, best-selling fiction, Oscar-winning movies, chart-topping music. Does that mean those are the standards we should be aiming for?…
We’re all aware of the impact of grief and how the process is an intense, and often long-term, process. In fact, suppressed grief can cause physical symptoms that can even become debilitating if not properly…
It’s NaNoWriMo season. Or rather, the month when you can prep for NaNo WriMo, if you want to participate. For those of you who don’t know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month (though it…
(Quick note to my e-mail subscribers. Due to technical difficulties, the notifications for the past two blog posts went awry. So you’ve missed my post introducing Creativity and my post about creative fears. Hopefully I’ve…
I recently came across this quote in a Vanity Fair interview with Greta Gerwig, the director of Barbie and Little Women. “At some point, the terror of never making anything becomes much bigger than the…
Have you ever encountered the fear of creating something bad? That voice within you that says your idea is rubbish? That it’s just not worth putting the effort into even trying? Or if you have…