"If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out… - Austin Kleon

It's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.

It is in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.

Once a day, after you’ve done your day’s work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can share. Where you are in your process will determine what that piece is. If you’re in the very early stages, share your influences and what’s inspiring you. If you’re in the middle of executing a project, write about your methods or share works in progress. If you’ve just completed a project, show the final product, share scraps from the cutting-room floor, or write about what you learned. If you have lots of projects out into the world, you can report on how they’re doing — you can tell stories about how people are interacting with your work.

That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.” — Charlie Chaplin

Seeing yourself as part of a creative lineage will help you feel less alone as you start making your own stuff. I hang pictures of my favourite artists in my studio. They're like friendly ghosts. I can almost feel them pushing me forward as I'm hunched over my desk.