Basically if you are not deeply critical of your own creative endeavors at least some of the time, you are probably either Gilderoy Lockhart or Steven Moffat.

#it's ok to think you're not a great writer or artist or whatever
#humility creates a motive for improvement
#which is a good thing on the balance

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspiration
#spirituality
#bible
#philosophy

#comics
#drawing

#writer's block
#writing
#confidence

#arthur koestler
#creativity and innovation
#thought and opinion
#culture and society
#art and design
#art
#psychology

#kids movies

#comics
#magic

“That's the nature of any creative activity -- you're mostly going to be rejected.”

—

The New Yorker’s Bob Mankoff at a recent TED salon. When Mankoff quit psychology school in 1997 to become a cartoonist, he submitted 2,000 cartoons to the New Yorker that year. Of them, 2,000 were rejected. Today, he is the magazine’s cartoon editor.

Pair with the fantastic Fail Safe and Ray Bradbury’s advice on perseverance in the face of rejection.