Archive - The Creative Life

How to Stay the Course When You Feel Invisible

6 Ways to Keep Showing Up When the Process Gives You Nothing Back

Aug 2 •

July 2025

You Will Lose Your Way

How to find the path back to the work — and to yourself

Jul 26 •

When Life Pulls You from Your Creative Path — and How to Get Back On It

Jul 19 •

Why Is It Harder to Show Up for Yourself Than for Clients?

5 Ways to Show Up Fully for Your Own Creative Work

Jul 13 •

The Masterplan Collapses, Now What?

Making a creative life when the original plan stops working...

Jul 5 •

June 2025

As an Artist, You’ll Be Asked to Give Up (Again and Again)

Photo taken from today’s new video for “Fight for You”

Jun 28 •

4 Ways I Come Up with Ideas for My Weekly Substack

What’s kept me consistent—and creatively alive—for 117 weeks.

Jun 21 •

An Artist's Assault on Niching Down

Photo taken in the North of Scotland 2022, seeing out the back end of the pandemic in my van, Donna.

Jun 14 •

The Death of the Artist in the Age of Algorithms

— And the Fight to Stay Human

Jun 7 •

May 2025

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