Hey folks, Here's a link to a zoom talk I gave on dealing with the pressures of being an artist in public in the current era. I hope you enjoy and please forgive my cadaver-like lighting...
I'm watching this now. I had to work a little hard, for a few years, to keep professional envy from eating me. As I navigate my early career, I've only recently accepted that I have any social power at all in this field; I spent the first couple of years just assuming I didn't, and it took a friend smacking me upside the head (and a comment in a Nebulas panel) to get me to see it.
How To Survive A Literary Life
I'm watching this now. I had to work a little hard, for a few years, to keep professional envy from eating me. As I navigate my early career, I've only recently accepted that I have any social power at all in this field; I spent the first couple of years just assuming I didn't, and it took a friend smacking me upside the head (and a comment in a Nebulas panel) to get me to see it.