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

[finch]

I do the free + pay for upgrade model, and tell myself that people don't have to pay if they don't think it's worth it, and... that doesn't quite shut up the feelings, but it distracts them with "well no one will ever pay for this" long enough to get the post up.

[thelinesoflearning]

This makes sense. I just don't do well with the putting things up in the first place part.

[finch]

Doing my first crowdfunding attempt for my writing was hard, definitely. I feel like I only manage it when I'm busy enough with other things that I don't think too much.