How to Live in Peace With Your Creative Ambitio: and other principles for independent creators

Your creative ambition is one of the best things about you. It's also exhausting, relentless, and constantly asking for more than you can give.Most books about creativity want to fix that. This one doesn't. How to Live in Peace With Your Creative Ambition starts from the idea that the tension is real, and that learning to live in it, rather than resolve it, is the actual work.No morning routines. No 30-day challenges. No hustle. Just a clear-eyed look at what creative ambition actually asks of you, and how to stay in the work anyway.Inside: - Part 1: Ambition: What it actually is, what fear does to it, and how to keep making things when the conditions are never right.- Part 2: Passion: Why "follow your passion" is the least useful advice you can give a creator - and what to do instead.- Part 3: Ten rules for tenacious creators: Short, direct, no motivational poster energy.- Part 4: Seven essays: On creativity, identity, silence, and the strange project of making things no one asked for.If you make things (writing, music, art, ideas) and you want to think seriously about that life rather than be cheered up about it, this book is written for you.

Pagina's: 53, Paperback, Independently published