This month, Grant Snider is writing one Haiku and making a drawing with it every day. He posts them at his website. At his Substack, he dives into the creative process, and shares the stories behind the scenes.
“Maybe when it comes to art, I’m not a master. I’m a perpetual beginner,” he writes.
This can be an energizing, useful, story.
(Here’s a good interview with Grant, from 2022. Another great lesson, on success: “If I could have told my old creative self, ‘Hey, don’t worry about that stuff. It’ll come naturally – just focus on making great work.’ It would’ve saved me a lot of anxiety.”)