Category: Creator Confidential
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One of the most important rules to writing
Work with what you’ve got. Bringing any work to life requires that you make a bargain with your imagination. You plead with each other to make it work. Your reality—schedule, energy, budget—demands compromise. Your imagination demands more. Both are most unhappy when you don’t make a deal and give up on the work. This is…
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Three things about creative success
1. Define what creative success means to you. Try to find an intrinsic source of motivation that you can work towards. 2. Extrinsic rewards matter, because you deserve to be recognized for your good work. Sometimes, these rewards need you to compromise. You will need to decide if it’s worth it. 3. Vincent van Gogh…
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Define your work
What do you do? Who do you do it for? Why? Answering these questions, and others like them, is hard work. It can also feel painful, because you commit to being labelled. Even though you contain multitudes, you’re making a decision: you will be known for one thing, for now and in the future. Your…
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Participate, even if you’re not prepared
In an ideal world, you’d be prepared for everything you want to participate in. That’s not realistic though. New opportunities pop up all the time. It can feel tempting to want more time to prepare for all of it. What tends to happen is you don’t have energy to, or you’re not able to prioritize…