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The Creative Lie We All Fall For
I thought we’d talk about wizard schools and worldbuilding and maybe a little about Neil Gaiman sprinkled in for flavor. Instead, I walked away
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The Day Jeff Realized a Job Would Never Save Him
Maybe because I saw pieces of myself in Jeff Kikel’s story, or maybe because it reminded me how fragile the whole idea of “security” really is,
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What Keeps Creatives Broke
As an artist, do you ever feel like you’re playing truth or dare with your reputation and sanity? Did you really really sign up for this. I’ve
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When They Can’t Categorize You
LightMinded Arts — with Joseph Bolton Sometimes the stories that mean the most get lost to us when we lose the only people who knew those
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Creatives Need Time
Art doesn’t always pay the rent. Daniel Rodgers traded his dream for the financial reality most of us have to deal with. The thing is, he
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Finding Joy In Writing, Accepting The Slow Burn – With Kern Carter
You’re supposed to starve. You’re supposed to treat poverty like a personality trait. And if you don’t, well, maybe you’re not a real artist.
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Realizing Your Art Isn’t A Sin
Talking with Allen C. Paul and we had a great discussion about hour our creativity fits into the value systems we have as followers of God. Often you
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When Your Dream Dies and You Still Win
Bart Merrell spent his entire youth chasing one dream: joining the FBI. He studied accounting even though he hated it, because that was the
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When Talent Isn’t Enough: What Ruth Douthitt Taught Me About Surviving as a Creative
Sometimes I feel too busy chasing the my dream and shaping it into something real real, only to find that my dream and the truth bump into each
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When the Art World Won’t Save You
Julian’s life reads like a map of restless searching: born in London, raised under the Spanish sun, chasing meaning across continents until he
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