Great list.
It’s part of Keri Smith’s “Artist Survival Kit.”
I saw it getting shared again on Facebook and thought I’d post it here in case any of you are feeling miserable and need a little kick to change your creative mindset and habits.
Any other ways to keep yourself feeling miserable as a musician? Let me know (and offer some solutions) in the comments.
Chris Robley is an acclaimed singer-songwriter and award-winning poet from Maine.
His Beatlesque indie-pop and milltown Americana songs have been praised by The Associated Press, No Depression, KCRW, The LA Times, Boston Globe, NPR, American Songwriter, and others.
His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, and more.
Robley has received a Maine Literary Award in Poetry, Boulevard’s Emerging Writers Prize for Poetry, and in 2016 was selected by former US-poet laureate Robert Pinsky as a finalist for the Dorset Prize.