Welcome to Creativindie, a home for indie writers, artists, and any one else committed to achieving financial freedom through creative production. I’m glad you’re here.
Creativindie (pronounced like “creativity”) was designed to share the decade of knowledge I’ve gained in marketing, promotion, productivity and life improvement tips as a professional (independent) writer and artist. It’s also a place where I can share my progress towards achieving significant personal goals and reminding myself (and others) what life is really all about.
The key theme of Creativindie is how to become creatively independent – that is, choosing to focus solely on creative production and how to turn your artistic passions into a source of income so that you can quit doing all the stuff that you hate doing. (If you don’t love your job or enjoy getting up in the morning to go to work, then you’re wasting your time and energy accomplishing other people’s goals.) “Creativindie” is the art of exchanging your artistic fruits for adequate financial reward – to be “in demand”.
Creativindie is not only about making enough money – it’s also about letting your imagination run wild (creativity); finding time to do what you love and enjoying every minute of your life (productivity); dreaming big, leaping before you look, and exposing yourself to new challenges and foreign environments (liberty); creating a tribe of exceptional people (community); and filling yourself with passion and joy so that you can give back to the world more than you take from it (luminosity). In short it’s about living life as fully as you possible.
At the same time, it’s also necessary to find a way to add value to your creativity – value that results in creativity-sustaining income. Hence I’ve also added the category of “publicity“, which is about positioning yourself and your work, marketing and promotion, finding publishers or galleries who want to work with you, and creating a platform of supportive followers.
To help you become creatively independent, I’ll be posting a new article every day until I reach 1000.
Now that you know what Creativindie is about, why don’t you get to know me a little better, or grab my free manifesto?
Derek Murphy has a PhD in Literature, is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and has spent over a decade helping authors write, publish, and sell books through Creativindie. When he’s not critiquing manuscripts or building writing tools, he’s probably in a castle somewhere with cats.
