July Patreon Panel: The Care and Feeding of Creators

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Duck Prints Press is back with another of our convention-style panels. This month, we’ll be spending an hour talking about The Care and Feeding of Creators. Ask a creator why they create, and most will answer with some variation of “I can’t not create.” However, creating is labor intensive and mentally taxing, and often leaves us exhausted and drained. Creatives engaging in self-care behaviors is therefore essential, yet many of us struggle to be kind to ourselves, celebrate our successes, and forgive ourselves our failures. In this panel, we will discuss our own struggles with showing kindness to ourselves, how we motivate ourselves, how we nourish and encourage our creativity, how we celebrate our accomplishments, how we avoid burnout and deal with falling into creative slumps, and will perhaps touch on our views of “the tortured artist” as a persistent description of creators.

Panelists: Alex Bauer, Shea Sullivan, Rachael L. Young, and Dei Walker. Nina Waters will serve as moderator.

Date: Saturday, July 26th
Time: 5 p.m. Eastern (converter)

This panel is available live to all our Patreon backers at the $7/month level and higher. Backers can also view recordings of our past panels. Become a backer of the Duck Prints Press Patreon today!