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Advice on starting projects (and sticking with them)
Plus, your reading recommendations for an artist and new mother
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Mason Currey
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Advice on writing and love!
“I’ve spent most of my adult life resisting the possibility of romantic love because I feared how it would distract me from my writing work.”
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Mason Currey
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Advice on writing, fear, and shame
For a writer who worries readers will think, “What the hell is wrong with this person?”
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Mason Currey
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Mega advice column, plus an announcement
This weekly newsletter is going every-other-weekly
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Mason Currey
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Advice on building creative stamina
“I’d love to pour more of myself in . . . but I lose focus, get tired, get frustrated, feel disappointed in my progress.”
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Mason Currey
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Advice on marketing and fame with guest columnist Ron Hogan
The author of Our Endless and Proper Work fields this month’s creative dilemma.
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Mason Currey
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Advice on insomnia
Can you convert sleeplessness into a creative asset?
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Mason Currey
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Advice on art paralysis with guest columnist Beth Pickens
The author of Make Your Art No Matter What fields this month’s creative dilemma.
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Mason Currey
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Advice on impostor syndrome, procrastination, and getting to your real work
“Every time I sit down to do work, my feelings of inadequacy take over.”
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Mason Currey
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Advice on post-project depression
"I can’t find the juice and then I just feel terrible."
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Mason Currey
Advice on jumping off the deep end
A new freelancer worries about challenging days ahead.
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Mason Currey
Advice on energy
Two very different dilemmas with—perhaps—the same solution
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Mason Currey
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