Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic

in all cases, fear thinks it’s helping us: helping to prevent us from doing something that will embarrass or humiliate us or cause us stress or disappointment. But, in reality, what fear mostly does is trigger quitting, procrastination, and numbing behaviors that distract us from showing up fully to engage in the creative process.

But the problem is that once we get into working, we might not stop. Make sure that your routine includes at least one or two solid fifteen- to ninety-minute breaks for taking walks, eating healthy snacks and meals, chilling out in front of a movie, spending time with friends and family, or hanging out with your art buddies. Those breaks will reene

You can even schedule time for developing your art business or taking classes.

BEGIN ANYHOW:

the problem is that if you succumb to fear or doubt (even with their lofty intentions), your creative journey will move either very slowly or, frankly, it won’t move at all. To keep things moving, I like to speak directly to fear: “Thanks so much for doing your job! But I GOT THIS!” And then, instead of shoving fear out of the way (which isn’t a ba

One of the first tips my former agent, Lilla Rogers, gave to me was that I should give myself assignments when I didn’t have paid work; I should use the time I had to make the kind of work I wanted to get hired to do by clients.

are already making art full time, scheduling can help you make sure you’re allotting time for experimentation (and not just paid projects). If you

Kate: By diving deep, you’re going to find a rhythm, you’re going to discover patterns, you’re going to discover new ideas, and I’m a firm believer that one project leads to another project leads to another project. Everything is connected,

Instead of making just one or two of something, I made bodies of work, the accumulation of months of daily practice.