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How social media creates unrealistic expectations about creative productivity

Every artist I follow online seems to have unlimited time and energy for their practice while I work forty hours a week and can barely manage one piece a month and I feel like a fraud

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The visibility of full-time artists' output creates shame in those who must balance creativity with survival, obscuring the legitimate constraints of ordinary life

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“Where Are You with Social media and the creative voice?”

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