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Why the Suffering Artist Archetype is so damaging for creatives

The ‘suffering artist’ is a romanticised archetype that has been perpetuated throughout history in literature, film, and popular culture....

Self-promotion for creatives: Getting seen is the key to success

The arts and business don’t mix. They should. They need to. But no one likes to talk about the two together. I’ve been a published...

More Than A Thriller

Good Girls Die Last is feminist reality wrapped in fiction I was so tired of crying. It was the summer of 2021 and the news was full of...

Luck & The Artist: Does luck have anything to do with creative success?

I hear it often — "You’re so lucky!" In itself, "you’re so lucky" is a perfectly innocuous phrase. There are a lot of things in my life...

My Experience of Burnout as an Author (and How You Can Avoid It)

It was May 2019 and I’d recently turned forty. I didn’t feel right. In fact, I felt so little like myself I went to see a doctor. ‘I...

Inspiration & Emotion: How to utilise what you're feeling to create great art

There are two types of creatives in this world; those who are hounded day and night by ideas forcing their way into the mind with jagged...

A Creative's Guide To Success and Sanity: The power of creative diversification

How do you become a success in the arts without losing your mind? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself for decades. Unlike other...

How do you keep sane as a creative? An interview with our new columnist, novelist Natali J Simmonds

I meet Natali over Zoom from her house in the Netherlands. This is not our first online meeting — in fact, online is how I met her a...