Creativity in Public: Tools, Essays, and Experiments

Being Bad at Hobbies as a Creative Strategy (and Zine Again!)

Ann Cooper 3/27/26 Ann Cooper 3/27/26

Being Bad at Hobbies as a Creative Strategy (and Zine Again!)

How to practice relaxing expectations around the results of creative work by pursuing hobbies we aren’t good at. Also, new zine!

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Divination and Confidence

Ann Cooper 11/12/25 Ann Cooper 11/12/25

Divination and Confidence

Creative confidence and tolerating the ‘taste gap’ for November.

Image: Felix Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller (1862; Project Gutenberg, 2019), ‍https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60045/images/i_frontis.jpg.

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