1000reasonsnottostartmakingart:

So you wanna be an artist. A successful artist. Then these are some rules to live by. Granted, artists are good at breaking rules (and should), and you can take or leave what you like here. But as far as I can tell, the successful artists I know have internalized this stuff.

Quite a practical and realistic list. However totally inapplicable for me (I have a wife and two kids, for starters) so I’ll just have to break the rules.