Creativity
“Create multiple versions of a concept: turn a blogpost into a visual, videos into guides, newsletters into zines or brochures. Rework your content across different mediums.”
“Content creation is a form of art-making, a medium through which we can communicate, connect, and make an impact, change, and build a movement. The perfect content invokes something in you, it makes you feel, think, or act differently. Tell a story! Content can be a force for transformation and education. Use your content as a canvas for meaningfu
... See moreCreate your own syllabus. Choose a theme: mythology, a specific era, philosophy, shadow-work, etc.
Choose books, essays, films, and videos. Give yourself a set amount of time to move through it. This is your private university. You’re the professor and student.
Choose connection over mechanical marketing. Cultivate intimate connections and relationships with your audience. Approach your art like a wild garden, rooted in passion and shaped by your unique rhythm. Nourish your creative ecosystem by collaborating and supporting others, feeding yourself inspiration, and having multiple revenue streams.
Write because your future self needs a map back to this moment. Write because the act of remembering is its own kind of healing. Write because it’s how you breathe. Your words don’t need an audience to matter.
Lois Mac, loismac on substack
Let your art be a library of your life.
A museum of memories, reflections, and beauty of this life that you’ve lived here.
There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered: he may be considered as a storyteller, as a teacher, and as an enchanter.
A major writer combines these three — storyteller, teacher, enchanter — but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer…
The three facets of the great writer — magic, story, less
... See more~ Vladimir Nabokov
the truest books are “mirrors” in which we discover not the writer’s wisdom, but our own.