How Self-Employed Artists Deal with Career Ups and Downs

To expose the trials and triumphs that writers, artists and designers face, Kristen Fischer wrote Creatively Self-Employed: How Writers and Artists Deal with Career Ups and Downs. The book examines life after creatives leave the 9-5 world, and offers practical advice for them via true-life anecdotes. The book is a must-have for anyone considering a creative career, or anyone already creatively self-employed. It is available at www.creativelyselfemployed.com.

An Interview with Kristen Fischer
By Molly Anderson-Childers
On her book "Creatively Self-Employed: How Writers and Artists Deal with Career Ups and Downs" and her own life as a self-employed creative.

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Trusting the (Creative) Process
By Kristen Fischer
While compiling my book Creatively Self-Employed: How Writers and Artists Deal with Career Ups and Downs, I confirmed that the back and forth of creative self-employment is normal.

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