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When you’re first starting off as an artist, no matter what your medium is, you’ll often hear people tell you not to be afraid to suck. They’ll tell you that everyone sucks while they’re first starting out, and that your first several thousand hours don’t matter because everything you do will suck. They’ll tell you that it will be that way until you make it big — that everything will suck no matter what you do, that you need to expect for it to suck, and you need to expect fo

I never understood why many artists utilize time the way they do. Some of us speed through our work, hardly letting it sit and going straight for finishing as soon as possible, regardless of detail or skill level utilized. Others will spend as much time as possible on one piece, stuck on the belief that it will never be complete. Many artists time themselves. Some give themselves fifteen minutes, and claim it’s done as soon as the buzzer rings. Others will give themselves fif

Everyone says, ‘Write what you know,’ but what about what you don’t know? No one can know everything about everything, or everything...

Every artist in the universe has gone through it, no matter their medium. It’s a little easier for those of us who practice multiple art...

I’ve always believed that office supplies were an extension of myself. A pen, much like a paint brush, creates art by leading the user....

Each and every person in past, present, and future lifetimes has creativity in them. We all have the power to paint, draw, sculpt, write,...

As adults, we’ve been trained to look at other people’s successes, and care about what other people think. It’s an evolutionary construct...

Every writer has been told never to do this. Every editor, professor, teacher, or person in the field has always told writers to never do...

Art is easy to define: any piece from any medium which emotes, allowing you to feel a varying set of emotions, is art. Everything from a...

As a writer, I’ve heard the phrase, ‘Kill your babies,’ over and over again. I’ve heard it in almost every single writing class I’ve ever...

Sometimes, when you’re reading a terrible book, you should put it down and never pick it back up again. This is especially important if...

I just need to get something off of my chest. You probably won’t agree. A lot of people I know, especially those who are artists, either...

The easiest, and cheapest, writing lessons you could ever take come in the form of something many writers believe is the lowest form of...

I’ve grown up around people who all specialize in one thing each. My father? He’s a medical pain doctor. My uncle? He’s a physicist. My...

There are few things I hate more than ‘feminine horror’.  A lot of writers will try to mitigate and deny that this is a problem within...

Horror, to me, isn’t just a genre of writing, storytelling, or, really, a genre of anything. This medium is the type that doesn’t just...