An honest guide to the creative life for artists of all kinds. Skipping platitudes, positive affirmations and guarantees of success, it discusses the things nobody else talks about - that, frankly, your work sucks (but that's okay because everyone else's does too), that making bad art is worth it, and much more. An unrestrained look at the reality of creativity and the joy and difficulty of crafting good (and bad) art, this book belongs in the hands of every exhausted creative and every starry-eyed dreamer.