I AM - My Journey To A Creative Life

By Linda Joyce Ott

Ever dreamed of quitting your job to pursue a more creative or entrepreneurial life? After surviving five cardiac arrests in one night following a minor accident, Linda vows to ditch her career and live the rest of her one and only precious life writing fiction, making photographs, and creating art.

Wanting to make sense of her decades-long frustrating quest for an artistic life and to discover how creative work became her salvation form the rationale behind this intimate memoir. Digging deep into her memory cache and sifting through five decades of journals brings to light Linda's Sisyphean attempts to break free and follow her bliss.

On this perilous journey of self-discovery, Linda learns how her relentless pursuit of career success and making money, of doing and achieving, repeatedly eclipsed her cherished creative dreams. Along the way, she explores the source of her ambition, her chronic anxieties, and her habitual coping mechanisms.

In a collage of styles (journal entries, emails, poems, lists, and postcards interspersed with narrative passages), Linda takes the reader through the rollercoaster highs and lows, the joys and fears, the successes and failures that represent her life as a passionate, restless, constantly re-evaluating artist. As befitting an artist's memoir, the narrative is punctuated with images of Linda's art.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1777733731
• ISBN13: 9781777733735
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Gunlin
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"