HeyJaredThe Creative Courage Project
If you’re a creative with low spoons and/or high stress plus impractical or silly dreams, get in here. Let’s follow our “I could never do that…(could I?)” desires together.
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Dear Artist: what’s keeping you from your creativity this week? (opens the original)
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I know what it’s like to want to make art but perpetually push it to “later” for very valid reasons, like trying to earn a living, being too tired, wanting to write a book but thinking “I could never do that!”I also know what’s it’s like to make the art anyway.Creative blocks are tricky things—you can spend decades thinking the reason you’re not making (more of) the art you want to is because you’re busy trying to earn a living or you need to wait until your kids
The muse is quitting (opens the original)
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It would be easy to keep writing these notes from the creative courage muse—I have a doc with 73 of them from when I was sharing them on Substack Notes. It would keep me “consistent,” which is what the newsletter best practices say I should be, but it no longer feels like the right creative container for my voice.The creative constraint felt freeing and playful at first, to use my voice in a new way, but it’s started to feel too small, too limiting. Not really me. Not where this newsletter wants
feel like the least creative person right now? (opens the original)
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If you’re feeling creatively depleted, perhaps you’ve spent too much time saying “no” to your desires and not enough saying “no” to outside demands.Note from Ryn: What sounds fun right now?I know you couldn’t possibly make space for it this week, but how can you say YES and put it on your calendar anyway?Tap the ❤️ below when you’ve added some fun to your calendar.New here? If you could use
for when you’re perpetually “not ready” (opens the original)
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You don’t have to take a creative leap and just hope the net appears. You can weave the net, but it doesn’t have to be ironclad. Consider this your invitation to find the middle ground between no net and the perfect one...and then leap.Note from Ryn: You can shrink the gap between avoiding the risky thing you want to do and doing it—without just “doing it anyway.” If you’re working to shrink the gap, I wrote about 4 ways to weave a creativ
never a good time (opens the original)
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When you feel hesitant to share your art with the world, root into WHY you made it. Let that guide how, when, and what to share publicly.Note from Ryn: It’s true: there’s never a good time to share you art, because something terrible is happening in the world, or you’re too busy, or you’ve already told people they should buy your book like a million times. And it’s also true: it’s always a good time to share your art.Once you’ve told som
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