Patreon video #1 for February: Creating through stressful times (Patreon)

This video is for the member-voted topic of the month!

I discuss my own struggles with anxiety throughout my life, and how to keep making art through grief and life changes. I discuss the political environment in the US that is dragging down most of my fellow writer friends. I touch on how change can be slow, both inwardly and outwardly, but still worth pursuing. This was a hard one to make, I must say, because I'm not always comfortable with some of these topics but it also feels too weird to ignore it all. I recorded parts of this video in two different sessions with multiple takes and ended up with 2.5 hours of footage to hack at, then procrastinated like crazy on editing it. Putting yourself out there is not always easy, and that is true in so many ways.

https://youtu.be/nRICLzwlwYs