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.

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…

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?

The creative process can feel a bit like a road trip. The promise of freedom, beautiful vistas, and adventures en route to new and exciting destinations. It can also be full of potholes, detours, flat tires, traffic jams, and long, boring stretches. How do we reconcile the process with the product?

If I could get paid for every minute I spend planning to do the work, sighing about not doing the work, ruminating over why I am not doing the work, and prioritizing other work to take up the time that this work could take, I could really make a living at this. I would put the Pro in Procrastination.