What are you going to do to support your creativity?

When I was teaching I came across people all the time who thought 'creativity' whether it was their best selling novel which they would write once 'unblocked' or they were going to sell water colours and this would get them out of the job they hated.

Creativity will not save you and I tried to get my students to think about how they could support their creativity rather than how their creativity would support them. I would tell them to sort out their jobs and do their creativity at the same time. There is a great post at Living Small on this very topic of writing v career.