How Do I Make It As A Creative?

I started my career at 12-years old - as a writer. Well, I thought it was a career, a career in the making.

In my mind and heart, the only thing worth doing in the world was making art.

Many years later, after writing several manuscripts and failing to get them published – though there had been many wholehearted attempts by talented literary agents to make my dream a reality, I threw in the towel and decided to give the career that truly seemed to be working a try, Public Relations. Thing is, PR is really all about writing. From press releases to pitch letters to positioning statements.

So, I got my wish, in a way. I made a life as a writer, just not the kind I had envisioned.

 Fast forward many years, and I am at it again. I’ve written yet another manuscript, I’ve managed to get yet another literary agent (he’s awesome!) and I am hopeful. You might say that I am eternally hopeful, because quite a lot of people would have given up by now. But not me. Still at it. And that’s why I wanted to do a series on the creative life. Because, while I make my living in a space that feels more like a science, it’s almost all art. Even making sense of data to qualify critical assumptions is an art. And I wanted to do this series because I firmly believe there is an artist in all of us. Even people who don’t think they have a creative bone in their body, I believe, are not 100% correct. I believe they haven’t discovered the right medium to express their art. Do you think Math and science aren’t artistic? Ever considered the mind-boggling trip you need to take to even begin to imagine how quantum physics works? If that isn’t art, I don’t know what is.

 So, join me as I look at what it means to live and thrive in a creative life – because we all have the creator in us.