Few artists achieve fame and fortune, but that doesn’t mean your creative life can’t flourish. Writer, illustrator, zinester, and playwright Ayun Halliday\u00a0interviewed dozens of creative people and shared her own experiences\u00a0to produce this rallying cry for the “small potato”\u2014someone whose focus is making cool, meaningful work and living a creative life rather than\u00a0achieving wealth or celebrity. Sections\u00a0range from the practice of artmaking to wrangling self-doubt\u00a0to DIY marketing and self-promotion.\u00a0Along the way, Halliday\u00a0shows that your art can bring\u00a0you\u00a0satisfaction, success, community, and\u00a0a modest income\u2014without\u00a0losing sight of your reasons for doing it in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Few artists achieve fame and fortune, but that doesn’t mean your creative life can’t flourish. Writer, illustrator, zinester, and playwright Ayun Halliday\u00a0interviewed dozens of creative people and shared her own experiences\u00a0to produce this rallying cry for the “small potato”\u2014someone whose focus is making cool, meaningful work and living a creative life rather than\u00a0achieving wealth or… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-now"],"my_excerpt":"\n Few artists achieve fame and fortune, but that doesn't mean your creative life can't flourish. Writer, illustrator, zinester, and playwright Ayun Halliday\u00a0interviewed dozens of creative people and shared her own experiences\u00a0to produce this rallying cry for the \"small potato\"\u2014someone whose focus is making cool, meaningful work and living a creative life rather than\u00a0achieving wealth or celebrity. Sections\u00a0range from the practice of artmaking to wrangling self-doubt\u00a0to DIY marketing and self-promotion.\u00a0Along the way, Halliday\u00a0shows that your art can bring\u00a0you\u00a0satisfaction, success, community, and\u00a0a modest income\u2014without\u00a0losing sight of your reasons for doing it in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n Few artists achieve fame and fortune, but that doesn’t mean your creative life can’t flourish. Writer, illustrator, zinester, and playwright Ayun Halliday\u00a0interviewed dozens of creative people and shared her own experiences\u00a0to produce this rallying cry for the “small potato”\u2014someone whose focus is making cool, meaningful work and living a creative life rather than\u00a0achieving wealth or celebrity. Sections\u00a0range from the practice of artmaking to wrangling self-doubt\u00a0to DIY marketing and self-promotion.\u00a0Along the way, Halliday\u00a0shows that your art can bring\u00a0you\u00a0satisfaction, success, community, and\u00a0a modest income\u2014without\u00a0losing sight of your reasons for doing it in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}