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5.0
Ayun Halliday's Creative Not Famous is a balm for the every day creative. The Small Potato Manifesto offers sage advice in lots of areas, but I particularly liked the first part of the manifesto: "We relish the freedom of our relative smallness without hope of wealth." Well, ok, I mean, I would like a litttlllleee wealth once in a while. The idea of the small potato here isn't that the ideas or the creative act are small, but that we small potatoes- the underpaid, the unknown, and the un-famous, which is most of us, are making the things, and we keep doing it, when we're tired, after working our day jobs, when we put the kids to bed, etc. It's the drive to create and connect, and Halliday, who is a lovely human and a long time creator put the perfect book together to remind those of us who create, to keep going and "get 'er done."
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