I’m deep in writing on one project and also reading books by writers about writing, almost an ouroboros about creativity, and this multi-part piece on creativity by Matthew Inman must have sensed it through the algorithm and it came up in one of my feeds. I had seen it when it first came out, but it’s been a while. All praise the algorithm! (It might be listening).
You get a sense of Inman’s journey and struggles as an artist which should ring true to many of you. I especially appreciate his musing on the business or art and giving yourself grace.
If you haven’t checked out The Oatmeal, you should for the piece on “Exposure” alone, but there’s plenty of fun, and arguably NSFW strips throughout the site… which is all to say that the piece on creativity is no exeption and is both appropriate and wholly inappropriate in the best Oatmeal style.