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It's a contradiction to hold brutality and tenderness while writing, And promoting your work can feel like shouting about your whispers. You need both. Not only for writing but to promote your work, too. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK www.darbyhudson.com YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #writingtips #creat...

A bunch of times I thought i'd plateaued with my writing. And then, bam! Another level. It can happen after years of banging your head on the same wall, and it can come all at once. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

What parts of me are me? A bit of psuedo-philoshophical waffle of an ep. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

I've had to learn to balance chaos and routine in my life... forcibly. And the writing started to pour out. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

Some thoughts on finding an audience over 30 years and writing ten books until I'd made my best one. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

A few things I've learned to jumpstart me old brain. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

I miss good stories. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

Dedicating life to art can feel full of meaning and a complete waste of time. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

I've invested much of life placing the cart before the horse and things are starting to work. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

I've always loved the idea of radical acceptance, or whatever new-agey people call it. I struggle with it, so writing about it always helps me understand it, grasp it.. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

Relaxing is hard work for me. Sometime I feel like who I am is too tied up in the stuff I make. So it's interesting to force myself to just be a person without the magic of creativity. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

"YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK... " is probably my favourite book. You can find it in the link below. It's sorta fitting this is me 100th episode. The book is made from bits and pieces from all my poems across all my books. Just the juiciest most combustible lines. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

Well, that was a leap off a cliff. It went better than I expected, Lots of learning from it. Parts when really well, some not so well. But overall I suprised myself. My new book: YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems Instagram TikTok YouTube #art #creativity #writingcommunity #writing #artist

I once read only to learn. Everything else felt like a waste of time. But learning also brings me anxiety. I love reading genre crime fiction, it lowers my anxiety, it takes me away from myself, the world. My two current crime fiction/psychological thriller writers: Michael Connelly Frieda Mcfadden And Thomas Harris - Red Dragon (part of the Hannibal Lecter anthology is absolutely exquisite) My ne...

Less than a week away to my live sho in Melbourne (August 15th) - tickets below. TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

Gotta consciously wrongfoot myself to make interesting things. TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

Running a 'poetry business' is weird and business me and creative me are often at odds with each other. Batching has taken these two version of me out of the same room and given me a little more breathing space. TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

I've always been fascinated by the little doors to other worlds scattered in unassuming places. TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

Peter Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock was Twin Peaks before Twin Peaks. (And I love David Lynch). TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube

I often felt lost and unconfident in not knowing what I was doing when I was in my 20s. I still don't know what I'm doing but I'm more confident about it. But a brutal hangover reminded me what it was like to be in my 20s and feel lost for a day... in my 20s I'd experience this feeling without even needing a hangover, and often! TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE...

I've kept a lot of my life personal, even though most of my stuff is written very personally. But I've crossed a small line into posting about stuff that I haven't before and it feels like very new territory. And more interesting territory. TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instag...

I crap on about the courage to be the first to say what everyone's thinking. Good ideas. And a brief chat with Matt Hardy who's producing me first show. TICKETS TO MY LIVE SHOW Nico Dory (Flash Poetry) My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instagram TikTok

I took the top ten downloaded episodes, went through the transcripts and found my fave bits from each and here I am reading them out. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instagram TikTok

This is something I recorded a year back that started all my videos. I've added a few more ideas/minutes to it. My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instagram TikTok

I give my writing and painting a long leash, and often no leash at all. I have to trust it will do its thing. It's all (sometimes frustratingly) counterintuitive My new book: WORKING NINE LIVES WORKING NINE LIVES My books and prints: Books and prints Find me: My free eBook of poems YouTube Instagram TikTok