Feeling stuck? A creative manifesto for today's world

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Reality check: your voice is important. Especially when the world is on fire.

Weird is the word

Someone needs to hear your story. Someone needs to know they are not alone. Someone needs to know they’re going to be ok, and your voice and your story will help. Your unique way of seeing the world will

help.

Truth is the thing

That thing you’ve been putting off? The story, song, or art that is too weird, or too loud, or too vulnerable?

That’s what we need right now. That’s what will be powerful for your audience, and for you.

Bigger is not better

Another lie productivity culture tells us? Go big or go

home. If we don’t win it all, if we don’t succeed on a

grand scale, then what’s the point?

But big and splashy means nothing if we don’t reach the people who need to hear us. Bigger is not better if we have to compromise ourself to get there.

So let's think about a new creative manifesto:

• We prize the truth, and we tell the truth.

• We tell our stories. Even the ones that scare us.

• We tell them in our way. Think digital and analog. Get creative and get weird.

• We understand the power of using our voice and making our art for our own survival.

• We look for the people we can collaborate with, create with, commiserate with.

• We lean in to the things we think are drawbacks.

• We embrace our cultures, and create work to honor them.

• We create revolutionary art to reach the people who need to see it and hear it.

• We lean in to unrespectability. We don’t owe anyone good behavior.

• We use play, and fun, as a tool.

• We appropriate insults.

• And we make a long-term commitment to making art for a better world.

Explore what else is inside the Creative Review and Reframe Workbook with these articles:

• Six questions to take stock

• Which stage of creative work are you in?

• Let's rethink our goals

• Let's get weird

• When to enlist a partner

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