As a creator, giving your audience a great experience is your most important job. The audience is your consumer and your customer. Their attention is a valuable resource.
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Be your own creative genius
On a public level, there’s a perception that artists are egotistical and crave attention. On a personal level, artists feel selfish for being creative. They are wholly immersed in their work, removed from the people who depend on them and the world that they know.
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Output is the act of creating…Those ideas don’t just come from nothing. Output requires energy and fuel…You need creative input to fill your tank.
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I don’t believe in writer’s block…I’ve never been blocked by something I couldn’t move myself.
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To unlock your unique writing voice, you have to choose your life’s purpose over the discomfort of reaching for it.
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When I read, I don’t want someone to explain the mechanics of…That’s what YouTube is for….There are no “how to” videos on YouTube for the human condition.
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If you want to be more creative on social media, stand out, and grab people's attention…you have nothing else to lose and everything to gain.
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If it’s important, you find a way not an excuse…Nothing is going to change if you keep doing things the same way you’ve been doing them. Nothing is going to change if you keep finding an excuse.
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It is easier than ever for you to find the audience who needs to hear your story. And it is easier than ever for an audience to find the stories they need to hear.
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The life you want to create does not happen on that thing. It facilitates it, and it can be a useful tool, but it will not fulfill you…Art, relationships, the hustle, losing weight, getting stronger, creating a new product, and building confidence does not happen online.
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It is so easy not to sexually harass someone. It is so easy not to rape, assault, or abuse women. Plenty of men do it every day, and they’ll do it again tomorrow. If you are an artist who can’t conduct yourself that way, perhaps someone needs to show you the exit.
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When you write, you are connecting with another human being on an intimate level…Just as you do in a one-on-one conversation, so too when you write - fiction, an email, a blog post, Facebook comment, anything - you make a personal connection.
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Remember when you first came up with the idea for the thing? Remember how you observed or got snagged on a train of thought? That happened, because you filled the tank until you caught something useful.
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I can’t tell you how many of my best ideas I’ve come up with by not thinking, not brainstorming, not trying: doing laundry, commuting home from work, standing in line at the grocery store, or sitting in an art museum….The best ideas come when you’re not looking for them, when you’re not seeing every moment and experience as an opportunity to create and share and seek attention.
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At some point during your writing career, you will play The Comparison Game...and you will lose every time. It is a game you can never win, because the objective of the game is to tear you down.
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It’s easy to call yourself authentic, but it’s another thing entirely to be authentic, to take off the mask and pull away the protective veneer.
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