Goals are yours not capitalism’s
Goals are great (when they are actually yours)
All November, we’re focusing on non-fiction writing prompts per usual but through the frame of also taking a good, long look at your writing life and overall creative career things you want to do.
What does visibility mean to you? What’s its purpose? What might you achieve with the resource of visibility in your creative work?
Write deeply into that today, really considering the idea of visibility as a useful resource you can build for yourself in ways that feel meaningful to you.
Next, think about how you've been taught/socialized to think and talk about your creative work. What conventions or rules do you believe you are “supposed to” follow in order to be successful in the way you want?
Write about that, too.
And, notice that I talk about goals and successes in very personalized terms. Our economic system + the resulting hustle culture tends to make it a given that everyone wants (or should want) white-hot mega-fame, should want to continually “scale their business” and that, generally, not wanting to be at the very top is some kind of moral failing or complacency.
Which, obviously, is utter horseshit.
Frame your goals and milestones around what your heart really wants, not what you think you’re supposed to want. Watch how eerily fucking fast things shift when you do.
