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Could you use a nice revenue stream to supplement your art income? We’re launching a wonderful Human Experience Specialist Certification Course that comes with an affiliate option. Just become an affiliate, announce the program, and make free money. The program you’d...

Being an artist is not simply a matter of making art. It is a way of organizing a life around something uncertain, demanding, deeply personal, and often poorly supported by the surrounding culture. An artist must create while doubting, persist without guarantees,...

Given that it was never easy to be an artist or to succeed as an artist, and given that AI and world circumstances are not going to make that any easier, what is an artist to do? I think the answer begins by giving up two comforting ideas: that the world will...

What are your most urgent concerns as an artist? Drop me a line to ericmaisel@hotmail.com and let me know and I'll share them in the coming weeks. Just let me know if you do or don't want your name used.

10 Reasons an Artist Might Want to Become a Human Experience Specialist. Learn more about the Human Experience Specialist Certification Course here. You already study the human experience. Artists are observers of longing, conflict, identity, love, loss, ambition,...

Here are ten tips that emphasize products that are inexpensive to produce, easy to understand, and genuinely connected your work as an artist Start with what people already respond to. Don’t invent a product in a vacuum. Notice which paintings, images, characters,...

UNDERSTANDING THE ABUSE CONTINUUM This post is part of a series on creativity and addiction. Are you a nonfiction writer? Come join me for three months of nonfiction book coaching. Learn more here. In recent years, the addictions field and the science behind it have...

  This post is part of a series on creativity and addiction.  Are you a nonfiction writer? Come join me for three months of nonfiction book coaching. Learn more here.   A person with vitality, passion, and energy--a person who is really alive--possesses roiling...

CREATIVITY, MEANING, AND ADDICTION This post is part of a series on creativity and addiction. Are you a nonfiction writer? Come join me for three months of nonfiction book coaching. Learn more here. In previous posts in this creativity and addiction series, I’ve...

This post is part of a series on creativity and addiction.  Are you a nonfiction writer? Come join me for three months of nonfiction book coaching. Learn more here. I CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION One of the major unfortunate consequences of the extra drive that we...