It’s scary, I know, but remember, your art heroes that influenced you in the first place, THEY took a chance. So should you.  

What I'm proposing is to create an avatar, a whole separate personality, as an agent to help protect your artist self and be a buffer between the real world and the artist.

Think of it like starting a workout practice. You’re trying to run a mile every day when you should be putting on your running shoes on first. You need to build up your connection slowly and in small bites of time. Five minutes here. Two minutes there.

Listen: we ourselves are the practice grounds for the way we treat other people. If we don't treat ourselves very well, there’s no hope that we’ll treat others very well either.

We are not in competition with anyone if we are truly being authentic in our writing and with ourselves because only WE can tell the stories that we have from our unique experiences and personalities.

You're training yourself to get down words instead of waiting for inspiration or waiting until the moment is right or the words are good.

Here are four ways to help you begin to get to identify, understand, and express your emotions to help you in your life and work.

For decades, we’ve fought so long and so hard with the world to gain and maintain our solitude in order to create art that when we get blocked, we feel trapped in a product of our own making.