Your Fear of Being Canceled is Hurting Your Art

Creatives, I’m looking at you. In today’s episode, I walk you
through exactly how I lost my creative spark in the Internet’s
sea of opinions and how I got it back. When did we forget that
art is supposed to make us clutch our pearls? And how do we
remember? If you want to stop praying to the altar of the comment
section, this episode is for you. We’ll walk through 4 things
that helped me start making chewy, brave art again. 





You owe it to yourself to stop sanitizing your art. This episode
is a messy, raw field guide on how to do that—from another
creative climbing out of the same boat. 








00:00 Intro 


02:09 Preorder MAKE BELIEVE! Let’s hang on tour!


02:44 Are vulnerability and nuance needed for good art?


03:13 Did video kill the radio star? Will IG poetry kill literary
poetry?


04:04 Taylor Swift’s quill, fountain pen, glitter gel pen buckets
of art 


04:40 Sugarcoated self love: helpful or hurtful? 


05:28 Should we think about the audience when we make art?


05:42 Rick Rubin & “the audience eats last”


06:20 Is social media tainting our intentions as artists? 


08:13 Art as an offering vs. art as an outlet  


08:33 How to gut your art of meaning 


09:20 My own experience navigating this, good and bad


11:47 Should artists care about views and engagement?


12:27 Microwaving our art to keep pace with the algorithm


13:52 Having no haters is not a badge of honor 


14:45 “Bad takes” vs “good takes” and the erasure of nuance
 


15:10 Moral imposter syndrome and curated vulnerability


16:55 The big, messy mistakes we don’t hear about


17:33 Stop sanitizing your art 


17:57 Ellen Bass & art that makes you clutch your
pearls 


18:31 Relax by Ellen Bass 


19:11 Art for likes versus art for thought 


19:36 So how do we take our brains back? 


19:59 Break - with a big surprise!


23:47 4 ways to take our creative spark back


23:57 1. Notice the voices in your head 


24:57 2. Temper vulnerability with respect for your privacy


26:07 3. Create art with urgency 


26:21 A Little Life & commodified art vs art for art’s sake


28:42 Mary Oliver on getting distracted from your art


30:55 4. Get off your phone 


32:00 How to start a fire, literally & creatively


33:57 Your art misses you 


35:34 I your thoughts 


36:27 Challenge: make something scary this week 


37:14 You are not out of good ideas





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EPISODE LINKS


⁠Joy Sullivan’s poetry masterclass⁠⁠ - brought up so much
thought and a big breakthrough for me. Dives into what it means
to make vulnerable, surprising art. 

⁠⁠Taylor Swift accepting Songwriter-Artist of the Decade at
the Nashville Songwriter Awards⁠⁠, discussing her quill, fountain
pen and glitter gel pen lyric categories 

⁠⁠The Creative Act by Rick Rubin⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Big Magic by
Elizabeth Gilbert⁠⁠ - two of my favorite books on the creative
process, both talked about in this episode

⁠⁠Relax by Ellen Bass⁠⁠ - one of my many favorite poems by
Ellen Bass, who IMO is the blueprint for writing gutsy, gritty
poems. Could not recommend her books⁠⁠ Like a Begger, Mules of
Love, and Indigo⁠⁠ more. 

⁠⁠A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara⁠⁠ - the novel with the
passage I read about commodified art vs art for art’s sake. 

⁠⁠Upstream by Mary Oliver⁠⁠ - the book with the passage I
read about getting distracted. If you need a reminder of the cost
of hiding from your truth, read chapter 3.