A question about selling creativity.

[thelinesoflearning]

So hey. People who make any kind of regular money off selling things they can do. Particularly creative things (extra particularly word things), but anything, really. Tarot, coding skills, whatever, I'm sure there are things I can't think of.

How do you beat down the feeling of "I don't deserve to be paid for this, I'm not good enough, there's got to be someone better out there you could get this from"? Or ignore it? Or however you defeat it enough to actually put price to things?

Comments

[silveradept]

The coldly mechanical way of looking at it is that the things you make cost tome and materials, and so if someone else wants it, you deserve compensation for those time and materials spent.

[thelinesoflearning]

I... am not good at coldly mechanical. I've tried! But yeah. It makes a lot of sense, though.

[silveradept]

I don't think many of us are good at coldly mechanical, especially as creative people. I wish we had a patronage system again in some ways - I pay your expenses, you do creative things for me. I'm sure things like Patreon are spared to help with this, but I doubt anyone with the means to truly do patronage is interested in it, preferring some other investment.