All Day I Dream About Substack (ADIDAS)
What had prevented my mum making the art she wanted to during the first five and a half decades of her life? The same stuff that stops endless amounts of people fulfilling the more creative life they desire: a tiring full-time job, the concomitant extra job of being a good parent, house moves and house renovations, a lack of self-belief rooted to a
... See more“Back at the beginning, I would pretend that I was a lighthouse beaming light and love out into the world. I would pretend that thousands of people were listening. I wrote ‘as if’ thousands of people were listening. I never missed a single blog post because I’d be letting thousands of people down! I imagined that I was changing thousands of people’
... See moreAlexandra Franzen • You're Going to Survive: True Stories from People Who've Endured Soul-Crushing Moments in Their Careers—Failure, Rejection, Disappointment, Public Humiliation—and How They Got Through It
Alright, I thought. Writing is about working harder and faster than everyone else. It’s about overwhelming the world with the sheer volume of words you can churn out. It’s about hitting wordcounts and it’s definitely about making fun of anyone that mentions “writer’s block.” ... I loved writing and I was doing what they said you have to do if you l... See more