On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift up.

Sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.

Hey, you're listening to Creative Pep Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your creative journey.

I'm Annie J. Pizza, New York Times bestselling author and illustrator, and I will be your guide on this creative expedition. Let's go.

This is a Q&A Ask Doctor Pizza episode. I'm not a doctor of anything besides pizza.

I don't know what that means. I made this Ask Doctor Pizza thing.

Back when very few people were listening this show and I felt I was just being silly.

Now I'm self-conscious about calling myself a doctor when I'm not on the internet because so many people do weird things impersonating professionals online.

I'm not a real doctor, but I still have a sweet theme song Ask Doctor Pizza theme song.

And so we got to go with it, right? I can't waste that.

We're going to answer two questions on this episode.

So stay tuned if you have questions about overthinking.

How do you get out of your head and actually make stuff that's good, that's loose, that's fun, and then we're also going to talk about what do you do when you're doing it?

When you're doing a lot of stuff you like but no one else seems to like it. That's what we're going to talk about. Let's go.

Oh yeah, one more thing. The two recordings, the questions that you hear in this episode.

They were recorded by going to creativepeptalk.com and just pushing the little microphone at the bottom right hand corner.

It's not going to instantly record you, don't panic, but you can click that and you can click record and you can ask your questions

and your question might be featured on an upcoming episode of Ask Doctor Pizza.

I love answering questions, I love hearing kind of what you're wrestling with because it makes it easier to make relevant episodes to everybody.

So go do that. I love hearing it and it's really fun jumping into these questions.

Hey Andy, long time listener here. I had a question about thinking about the creative process too much and sometimes I feel like when I am spending too much time analyzing

what I do and why I do it and doing prompts and exercises that can be very helpful.

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