Creative calling cards
How do you talk about what you do?
Write today about how you talk about your own creative work.
Often, out of an abundance of care to not be seen as boasting, we tend to over-correct and undermine our work and wins. Of course, that leaves a huge swath of land in the middle of those two extremes in which we could talk about it straightforwardly and simply, yet that is so uncommon and underdone that it can feel radical.
And, depending on the dynamic of the given situation in terms of both power and representation, it can also be complicated as hell.
Further still, there’s a tendency to joke-not-joke about our work, as if being cutesy-jokey about it will somehow give us permission to talk about it, when in fact—real talk—whatever time in which that might have been seen as funny-cute and a sneaky way to be taken seriously is, frankly, long gone if it ever actually even existed in the first place.
Dig into all of that. See where you land. Let’s go.
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