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

sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.

Hey, you're listening to Creative P Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your

creative journey. I'm Annie Jay Pizza. I'm a New York Times best-selling

author and illustrator and I will be your guide on this

creative expedition. Let's go. Do you feel like social media is

destroying your creative practice. It is incredibly easy to get caught up desperately

making stuff for free at the chance of something you make going viral, getting rapid success

and changing your life overnight.

Like that is an easy pit to fall into.

I've fallen into it.

You've probably fallen into it.

But today I want to explore how I think social media is changing and how you can evaluate your own practices

and figure out where you need to be investing your creative energy to where it will actually have a chance of paying off in any significant relevant way to your creative practice.

If you stay to the very end, I'm going to give you, at the end I'm going to give you three questions that you can ask every time you go to make something for free and determine whether it is a good investment or if it's a distraction

that is funded by the billionaires of the tech world hoping that you will make their channels

interesting without paying you a dime and that's what we're gonna get into if you

struggle with this kind of thing this episode episode is for you. Let's get into it. Okay, I have a little bit of a confession and I feel comfortable making this confession

because I feel like I'm speaking to somebody who probably could make a

similar confession so I feel like this is a safe place to talk about this I feel like I have what I'm going to call

creative aerial syndrome because I can imagine a kind of live action remake of the live action remake of the little mermaid

but now she's not actually a mermaid she's just a teenage girl who wants to be where the people are.

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