The Creative Generalist
Dave ConreyHonest and irreverent takes on building a creative business without picking a lane. Sharing weekly lessons on turning your prolific work into an audience that actually pays.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 287 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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I Wish I Knew This About Creativity When I Started 40 Years Ago
Bad Motor Scooter by Dave Conrey
When I finally got my ass off the couch and out into the world, I realized that real creativity isn’t always found by doing things, but instead, by experiencing them.
This story is part of this month’s cre...
How I'm Un-stucking My Creativity
The best way through a creative problem is to give myself a different creative problem to solve, and I'm doing it ALL MONTH LONG.
It’s 10:30 pm on Monday evening and I have to be up in seven hours to take my kid to morning practice. I have...
"So, what do you do?"
I’m working on a new project, and because I love to build in public, I’m sharing the first part with you here. It’s called the Creative Generalist Identity Roadmap, and I’m making it to help people plant a gigantic flag into the shoes of an...
How to Turn Discomfort Into Creativity
There I was, sitting on my sofa with my iPad in my lap, Procreate at the ready, waiting for a creative jolt to the prefrontal cortex in order to make the next great t-shirt design for my brand, Lost Mixtape. Except the ideas weren’t coming;...
How to Stop Confusing People With All Your Creative Projects
This is connective tissue between my many creative projects, and what's going to make me rich.
I came back to Substack this past December with a ramshackle plan of action, and it felt good. I had a whole strategy mapped out and things were...
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An designer/artist sharing stories from the field of building a creative brand from the ground, up. I share about creative empowerment, artistic exploration, and sometimes the tech behind it all.
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