#createit22

Hey, friends. Writers. All of us who grieve thanks to Nanowrimo.

WE have always been the heart of it.

Nano was a platform. A tool. It's a tool that broke.

WE ARE STILL the same people who write in November.

When you put yourself out there, some people will judge you. That'll happen.

The flip side is others will see who you are, and love you for it, learn from it, and come out the other side better humans—all because of your art. #createit22 #writers #artists #creatives

When your project falls apart

Do not let the fear of being permanently stuck embed itself in you. As long as you are alive, you can recover and heal.

"The creative adult is the child who survived." —Ursula K. Le Guin

You can survive now, too—and you and your art deserve to.

Hope is a skill. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Didn't finish that book? That art piece? That sewing project?

Creative regret is chains around your feet. It's weights on your back.

There's good news: you don't need it.

Perfect art does not make good art, any more than auto-tune makes a good singer.