What do you fear wanting success might mean?
And, what if all that was completely b.s.?
All November, we’re focusing not only on non-fiction writing prompts but also on your writing output and common (internal) creative career challenges.
What do you secretly/sometimes fear wanting more visibility around your creative work might mean about you? What about more visibility around you as a creative person?
Often, we frame visibility as an arrogant want, but as I’ve pointed out here and elsewhere, visibility is a resource, and one that can be dialed up and down as needed.
Yet, even then, many creative folks feel safer framing any shred of desire around visibility as being “about the work” which is all well and good, but I urge you to take off the gloves of virtue socialization and really dig in here. What if wanting visibility—as an artist, a writer, a thought-leader, a person with important shit to say—wasn’t inherently bad or arrogant or any of that? What if it was necessary? What if it was useful? Allow yourself to challenge your assumptions about what it might mean about you. Let’s write.
