Adam here! Welcome to the free ✨ weekly edition ✨ of Ten Minute Artist.
I write a page-a-day guide that offers fun prompts, encouragement, and thoughtful perspective for every stage of the creative journey.
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START - we had a deeply personal exercise that cuts to the core of who we are. (Some tears were reported)
ADVERTISE - our work is a source of credibility that we can build up without waiting for gate keepers.
TAKE TIME - Unless we learn how to use time, to have a proper relationship with time, one free of both hurry and procrastination, and filled with focus and flow - no other material will matter at all
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In 2024 I made $10 000 from Substack
This is my 4th year writing on Substack, throuout that time I’ve leaned on my talent for showing up and learning in public.
This is a job when I turned on paid subscriptions, my first goal was to earn $10,000 a year with this thing, it was a stretch, almost a dream. But by the end of last year, this has become a reality. And the only thing that made that happen was consistently showing up.
Having tried different publishing formats and schedules, I’ve come across one that works well for me.
Here’s what was important for me to figure out:
The time I could allow myself to spend on this thing ( a little bit daily)
The value I could create in that time (a page-a-day guide)
The niche I would occupy (10 minutes of personal creativity)
My job here is to help you consistently show up! The theme for 2025 is A Year of Creative Influence. And it is about showing up to uncover you true influences.
There are 12 categories of things I have to say about showing up, every daily page of this guide (daily newsletter) will fall into one of these themes.
START / ADVERTISE / TAKE TIME / TELL STORIES / TAKE NOTES / MAKE HABITS / RAISE ENERGY / MAKE FRIENDS / USE FRAMEWORKS / FEEL ALL THE THINGS / USE WHAT YOU HAVE / LACE UP AND GO OUT.
By the end of the year I am hoping my collected writing will serve as a first draft for a book, and I was tempted to tackle the topics monthly.
But I can tell intuitively that it might make sense for a book to be arranged in these ‘chapters’ or ‘themes’, that will be too difficult to write, and as a consequence effect the reading. So instead, I’m taking each in turn daily, and then repeating the topic. I do have a lot to say about each of the topics.
These topics are actions.
I’m here to help us take tiny actions, with huge outcomes.
You will know by now that I write
A free weekly edition (which is what you are reading now)
A mostly free daily edition
The weekly edition reads more like a letter, and evolves based on each week’s requirements, while the daily are my ‘first draft’ for the page a day guide with prompts for spending 10 minutes connecting with the source of your creativity.
These are the ingredients that helped me make $10 000 writing a newsletter are the same ingredients that helped me get into publishing and illustrate a dozen books in that same time frame.
I’m not here to brag, but rather, encourage you and give you tiny steps to follow, which really are not tiny at all but a rather big deal!
TEN MINUTE ARTIST PROMPT
Use the prompts to write or draw or write your thoughts about these words, or make a comic, I made a comic. Share your page/spread in the gallery.
Well done brother!