My mentor keeps saying my work needs to be more commercial but every time I try to make it sellable it feels like I am betraying something essential about why I started creating in the first place
More people experience this than they realize.
The tension between authentic expression and market viability creates a crisis of creative identity when external guidance conflicts with internal conviction.
“Where Are You with Mentorship in creative work?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.