When you feel like you are swimming against the current in an endless sea, look to the buoys of resilience. Reminders for artists and all who need to hear encouraging words right now.

This post is not about failure. It is about success. It can be such a loaded word. But what if we really knew what the word meant and how we can rethink how we keep score of our successes as artists?

As I speak about the book – whether at events or in interviews – I realize that people may perceive me as someone who has it all together. Except I don’t. I wrote the book I needed to read myself and have to keep returning to it.

Artists get feedback all the time – from the environment, from ourselves, and from other people. Sometimes the feedback can be a needed reality check. Sometimes it can provide valuable information. Sometimes it can help give us a boost in confidence. And sometimes it can be detrimental…

Imagination is a part of the creative process, so what about starting the new year by imagining if…

Marketing. Branding. Self-promotion. These words may strike fear or disdain in the hearts of many artists. They feel a bit shameless, a bit self-centered, and a whole lotta awkward. But they are also necessary because most of us are not making art only for our own delight, but also to resonate with others.

Whether you are a longtime reader of the Creative Resilience blog or you just stumbled upon it recently, I started it as a companion to a book by the same name. I am happy to say that the book is FINALLY coming out as both an e-book and a paperback on December 5. But this is where the hard work begins…

What if we relaxed notions of consistency and routine? Could it actually free us up more to do our best creative work?

What if, instead of making resolutions for the new year, we instead focused on four other words that begin with R?

What happens when I rely on a bot to write a blog entry about creative resilience and other reflections on the place of AI in the creative process?