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What Are Some of The Challenges for Creatives Who Become Entrepreneurs?
Artists and creatives face unique challenges with being entrepreneurs.
I used to think my ability to write rather easily wasn’t all that unique. I thought everyone was able to formulate ideas and translate them to text and put them on a page or screen in the same way that I could.
But over the years, I learned this talent wasn’t as common as I thought. Or, more specifically, the ease with which it comes to me. For example, when I worked for my best friend years ago — who was herself quite an excellent writer — she frequently asked me to compose things for the local Chamber of Commerce (she was the president of it at that time).
While she could create what she’d asked of me, I soon understood why she’d passed it on: What would have taken her a couple of hours took me 20 minutes. In the time it would have taken her to begin to set down the words in the way she wanted them ordered, I’d produced them, run them past her for an edit, cleaned them up, and was done. It was a similar quality to what she’d have produced — but with far greater efficiency.
I take great joy in writing — fiction, nonfiction, blog articles, press releases, or whatever. The creation aspect is (mostly) the easy part.
