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I mucked around with TikTok for 4 years before I had a breakthrough. One idea inititally only had 200 views. I reposted it a few years later with now over 500000 views. Here's what happened, what I did. New poetry collection 2023: WASTE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST UM' self help book for creatives: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter d...

I've had a weird week where my TikTok account moderately exploded after 4 years of playing around with poetry on that platform. Here's what happened. UM' self help book for creatives: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagram TikTok

My legs have taken me to heaven and hell. They've got me into and out of trouble. They're inhabited with a pure spirit. UM' self help book for creatives: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagram TikTok

It's tough eeking out art that is (naturally) adventurous in spirit while simultaneously having it crushed by people determined to wear their work costumes and talk in blabber in workplaces that (have to) pretend to care. Here's some of my experience. UM' self help book for creatives: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudson...

I've been rolling around some thoughts this week. I'm just not sure how they will grow yet. UM' self help book for creatives: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagram TikTok

I'm managine my time better. I've been writing without immediately posting it. Holding onto ideas for 5 days. While feedback can have a purpose for putting together some of my work, the constant feedback loop was starting to take me off course. So I'm learning to not post stuff right away and actually give myself whole days off writing. It's been super helpful. UM' self help book for creatives: UM...

Re-watching the Sopranos 20 years made me remember what great art can be. And great modern art isn't public, in a gallery or found on social media. It's found in weird texts between friends. UM' self help book for creatives: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagram TikTok

Just a little talk to myself on getting unstuck through movement. UM' book, a self help book for creatives: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagram TikTok

What I've learned from the poet Charles Bukowski. My favourite book of his: The Last Night Of The Earth Poems 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast): UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagram TikTok

This episode is a bit skittish. I talk about a bunch of random things from growing stuff from your own mess and how easy it is to be an individual and therefore an artist these days. 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast): UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagra...

There doesn't really feel like there are lessons to be learned when waking life is riddled with dream logic. 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagram TikTok

Cats have incredible amounts of zen and attitude. I've borrowed much of this when writing my work. 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagram TikTok

I ramble on about self censorship and trying to create interesting thoughts and planting ideas in different geographical locations. 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagram TikTok

I've been handwriting again a fair bit. Words look more magical, as if they're dressed in pyjamas when handwritten in pencil. Fonts in Microsoft Word look 'adult' and dressed in suits. 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of this podcast: UM My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscribe to (very occasional) newsletter darbyhudsonart.com Instagr...

Here I ramble on about reaching the edge of culture and needing to make it up myself, To collaborating with myself from ten years ago. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF - soon to be a paperback): Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And Poetry My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me: Subscr...

I talk about poems that shake me awake, detach me from my shadow, and let me fly into the sky. And the reasons (perhaps) why they do this. It’s been said when writing, “say it straight and make it great”. But the best lines are when they’re said straight, and don’t need to be made great. My favourite poems are often this way. 'UM' book, a self help book for creatives (the distilled 'best bits' of...

I talk a little about my new book - you can get a 50% discount for the current eBook version, I give the code out towards the end of the episode that you can enter at the checkout on my site. I will make it into a print book. It's basically a distilled version of what I think might be the most useful stuff for artists/creatives that I've mentioned across the previous 30 episodes! :) 'UM' book, a s...

While struggling with meaningless jobs in my 30s, I started getting stupid with life, framing my electricity bill in an Officeworks frame and selling it as 'art' for the price that was due. And applying with 2500 jobs with a stupid resume. This is from my ebook, out soon, called UM: Things I've learned about creativity and poetry. It's my first little 'how to' book for creatives on publishing, art...

I began as a humourist in my 20s, writing for The Chaser and making 'gag' cartoons for Inkgroup greeting cards. But I found flat out humour limiting, until I started to mix poetry with it in my 30s. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And Poetry My 'Best Of' illustrated...

I talk about searching for truth and wisdom in unlikely places and separating the art from the artist. I went down a Charles Manson rabbit hole this week. This episode is obviously not an 'endorsement' of him or his actions, (clearly he was a psychopath) rather, some of his quotes, removed from the context of his life and legal convictions (and objectively looked at), are undoubtedly interesting....

I've found it hard to balance being in fairly regular contact with the old inner-child, to help creativity, while adulting in a world that has no time for that stuff. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And Poetry My 'Best Of' illustrated poems: Confetti Tornado Find me:...

I took a few weeks break from writing (a few weeks back). I'm still completely distracting myself with football and de-prioritised writing, and voila, I've never felt more creative. Creativity is a difficult creature that sometimes only seems to arrive when it's not exclusively focused on. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (8...

Nine-to-fives are really just paid acting gigs. Popular and award winning culture rarely makes sense to the heart. The world talks in cliche, so words may as well be numbers. Some thoughts on the strangeness of the world, the strangeness of culture, and how it works for art and writing. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 p...

The past is a foreign country, wrote L.P. Hartley. Here I wander around Richmond where I grew up in the 80s. Things have changed. A small reflection on what the world was and what the world has become. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About Creativity And Poetry My 'Best Of' illustrat...

How I started publishing; getting published by a publisher who isn't you; and self publishing. Independent music and film is glamorised - self publishing books is seen as dirty and 'vanity publishing'. But the tides have well and truly changed. My instant download eBook that essences all the useful things I've mentioned on creativity from my podcast (82 pages, PDF): Um: Things I've Learned About C...