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Moving from inspiration to integration: do you need to be in your daily routine to make art?
We need to go out and live life, to feel inspired. But do we also, perhaps, need to create a routine to then action our ideas?
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Make it so manageable it's impossible to fail
A different approach to goal-setting that will set you up for success.
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Why being only an artist (or entrepreneur) has never worked for me
I used to move from one to the other and then burn out or feel bored. Now, I can see that I need to be both, simultaneously.
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I met a proper artist at a party.
And for a minute, I compared myself to him unfavourably.
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Pick one thing and stick to it (or not?)
Why the 'essentialism' model doesn't work for all of us.
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It never rains on your birthday
A letter to my son, on his birthday.
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Why am I scared of HRT?
I have three months’ worth of patches sat in my drawer, ready to be stuck onto my thigh, or wherever, but something is stopping me from getting started.
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I'm writing a book.
Maybe for publication. Maybe not. But here's why and how I'm finding time to write it.
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Work goals are out, life goals are in
I’ve been compiling a list of 2026 goals and it’s occurred to me that there is only one related to work. Here they all are, plus some prompts for you.
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Closing notes.
A final essay, this side of Christmas, on the importance of feeling we belong. All of us. Children, adults, neurodivergent people.
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Was it a mistake leaving London?
I've been back in London for two years now, the same amount of time I spent trying life in Somerset with my young family. Was relocating actually an…
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Apparently, I’m an intense person.
This is preferable to being boring, which is how I used to feel.
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Should our art be free?
I'm struggling with the monetisation of my writing, which turns it from 'art' into a 'product'. If I'm not charging for my writing, does that give me…
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The power of the personal essay
and why Substack has become a $1.1 billion platform.
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Annie Ridout
A bestselling collection of work/life essays by Annie Ridout (non-fiction author, journalist for nationals, viral poet and Sunday Times bestselling ghostwriter)
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