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Unless you are impervious to the facts of existence—and no one is—you must learn how to create in the middle of things.  You must learn how to create when wars are raging and when your own hormones are raging.  You must learn how to create even if you hate your...

I’ve been writing a lot lately about authoritarians: what you can expect from them, how contact with them harms you and wounds you, and what you can do to heal and recover from authoritarian wounding. Artists, who are typically highly sensitive and who are also...

[Don’t forget to get your hands on a recent book of mine, Redesign Your Mind. It will help you a lot!] Okay, here we go! Marketing is hard enough without sabotaging yourself with unhelpful self-talk. You say that you don’t like marketing? Change your self-talk! What...

Get inspired! Here are 14 artists on loving art. Enjoy! ** "I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red." -- Alexander Calder ** "I hardly ever paint people unless I'm rather in love with them." -- Sylvia Sleigh ** "Every picture shows a spot with...

The sales part of life—selling your paintings to buyers, selling your wedding band to wedding planners, selling your coaching services to prospective clients, “selling” your novel to literary agents and publishers—is, well, an unavoidable part of our life. We would...

Family life, the creative life, and just plain human life all present their challenges. Do they ever!Today I wanted to invite you to take a look at one of my books, Overcoming Your Difficult Family, a book that can help you a lot with the challenges that come with...

Make sure to get your hands on Connect with Gallery Owners, Curators, Collectors and Customers: An Eric Maisel Solutions Guide to Getting Better at ALL of Your Art Marketplace Relationships. Available now! Relationships in the arts are complicated. You may be very...

Jacob Norby, who is a pal of mine, just invited me to present a workshop at his Heal & Create Writers’ Retreat weekend conference in Marin (which is just north of San Francisco, over the Golden Gate Bridge) that happens the weekend of October 29-30. Catch me there on...

[Please take a look at my latest book, Why Smart Teens Hurt. Great for smart, sensitive, creative adults too!} Thank you for your comments on why you find it difficult to complete your creative projects. Here are three more comments. Your comments welcome! Ruth...

In a recent post, I invited artists to share their thoughts on what stops them from completing their creative work. Here are responses from three artists. Wendy: Either one of two things: The first is the “tangled web” problem–Either it’s not going right, but I can’t...