Dear Creative, You Don’t Have to Pick Just One Thing
Dear Creative,
You Don’t Have to Pick Just One Thing.
For a long time, I thought I was doing creativity “wrong.”
I love writing books… but I also love filmmaking, song-writing, and painting. I feel called to storytelling… but across mediums.
I’ve always loved to explore worlds through songs, novels, scripts, directing, events, and community.
And everywhere I looked, the advice felt the same:
Pick one thing.
Niche down.
Focus harder.
So I tried. And every time I did, something in me dimmed.
Being Multi-Passionate Isn’t a Lack of Focus
It took me years to understand this: my desire to work on multiple creative projects wasn’t a distraction, it was design.
Some people go deep in one channel. Others build bridges between many. Both paths are beautiful.
Being multi-passionate doesn’t mean you’re scattered. It often means you’re integrative. You see connections where others see categories. You let ideas cross-pollinate.
You understand that creativity isn’t linear — it’s cyclical.
When I’m directing a film, it informs how I write. When I’m writing a book, it deepens how I direct. When I step away from one project, another quietly nourishes it in the background. Nothing is wasted.
Why Working on More Than One Thing Can Actually Help
I’ve learned that forcing myself to work on only one project at a time often leads to burnout. But allowing myself to move and flow between projects intentionally, and gently, keeps my creative energy alive. Sometimes writing needs a break, so that filmmaking can take the lead. Sometimes screenwriting needs rest while a quieter story takes shape through a song.
Movement is not the enemy of completion. Pressure is. When I stop treating creativity like a single-track race and start treating it like a landscape I get to wander, everything flows more naturally.
You’re Allowed to Work in Seasons
One of the biggest lies creatives are sold is that consistency means sameness. But nature doesn’t work that way. Neither do we. I work in seasons. Some months are heavy with production. Others are reflective, slow, inward. Some seasons ask for structure. Others ask for play. None of them invalidates the others.
You’re allowed to let one project rest while another blooms. You’re allowed to circle back. You’re allowed to change focus without abandoning your vision.
What Completion Looks Like for a Multi-Passionate Person
Completion doesn’t always look like finishing one thing before touching another. Sometimes it looks like tending several fires, keeping each one warm enough to return to when the moment is right.
The key — at least for me — is intention. Not doing everything all the time. Not saying yes to everything. But giving myself permission to listen to what has energy today. That’s where the most honest work comes from.
If You’ve Ever Felt “Too Much”
If you’ve been told you’re doing too many things… If you’ve worried that loving more than one creative path makes you unfocused… If you’ve tried to shrink yourself to fit a single label…
I want you to hear this:
You don’t have to choose just one thing to be valid. You don’t have to simplify yourself to be taken seriously. You don’t have to abandon parts of your creativity to prove your commitment.
Some of us are meant to weave. And when we let ourselves do that fully, without apology, we create work that feels alive, connected, and deeply true.
I believe in You.
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