Creativity

Monetizing Creativity

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on February 17, 2022 0

What comes after Health? On my blog it’s wealth and monetizing creativity creatively.

In real life too when you are healthy and life is good you concentrate on growing your bank balance. At least women like me do. That’s what I found out this week, when I got together with 5 beautiful women podcasters for a Voice of Anchor Team challenge. When we started chatting about the different collaborations we could do ,my podcaster friends asked me a slew of questions.

I picked a few to give you a sneak peek at my mindset about creativity, money, and what I know about NFTs for artists in India. What women want is not all that different. The resource section at the end of this blog post will help you with starting your blog or online business and a few methods of marketing and monetizing them too.

So how can you Monetize a website?

Guest post

Sahithya Jagannathan asks

Sahithya asked: How do you think the way we talk to women about money needs to change? What are 3 things every woman needs to discuss with her partner/fiancé about money/ finances before entering into a relationship/marriage?

Artist Podcast – Awkward Conversations with my Amma!(Society, culture & relationships) – conversational style podcast

Question by Abha Jain and Riddhi Deorah

Abha Jain asked:
How can a multitalented person, who is Jack of all trades but master of none, manage & be consistent in all the hobbies together on social media & monetize them all?

Artist Podcast:Explore Beauty & wellness with Abha !

Riddhi Deorah asked:

What are the different things that mothers can do to monetize their hobbies? Do you think it’s important for mothers to have their own money?

Artist Podcast: Powerful Parent Podcast

Interview with Riddhi Deorah

What challenges do women face as entrepreneurs? How do they solve their problems?
How can women leverage social media to build their own online business? In conversation with Riddhi Deorah who is on a mission a mission to help 100,000 mothers become confident, courageous and creative.

Artist Podcast: Powerful Parent Podcast

Question by Pallavi and Shraddha

In today’s episode, I share the crucial ingredient which makes educational content fun. Also, a peek into NFT for artists in India
Pallavi’s Question:

Can you share some ideas in making educational, awareness content more engaging?
Artist Pallavi Priya- Podcast name is Ecofriendly Kind World ~ Taking you to the journey of making this world more green & kind. She interviews climate activists from across the world, share some easy ways on adopting a sustainable lifestyle.

Shraddha’s Question:

I’d like to know your views on NFT for artists.
Artist Podcast- To be or not to be.A podcast to explore all the different professional roles – interview style

What is working with writing, blogging, art, podcasting, and video creator like you and me? Can you make money in India leveraging your creativity and hard work?
Once a month I will be sharing about sites,apps,creator platforms ,earning opportunities and trainings for Creators in India.
It doesn’t matter if you are a newbie or an experienced creator I guarantee it will help you.
You will also have an opportunity to become a beta tester for my new courses, membership offers, and books for the lowest entry point when they are launched.

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Resources on the Website I mention on the Podcast

Talking Money with My Daughter: Teaching the Value of Money

Simple Path to Wealth

Middle Class Money Mantra

52 Weeks Saving Money Challenge

Money Saved is Money Earned

Starting a New Business Online

Making Money Blogging

Starting a Successful Blog Free Course Overview(Free PDF)

How to Use Content Planner on CANVA

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One Rule of Creativity (Podcast) with Krishna Mishra and the Mysterious Movie Star (part 1)

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on December 3, 2021 6

One Rule of Creativity with Krishna Mishra and the Mysterious Movie Star (part 1)

In today’s episode, I talk about the one rule of Creativity that no one talks about except Hegarty. I also start the first part of Krishna Mishra and the Mysterious Movie Star. This is a short story you can grab on Kindle Unlimited for free. It’s the fiction I wrote in 2020 when lockdown happened. I took a course by Internshala on writing, and the result was my first mystery!

I was ecstatic. Battling imposter syndrome and whatnot, I wrote my first mystery, and life has never been the same again. Anything truly is possible.

You and I all have stories inside us in 2020, I published my first fiction book, and now the fourth one in the Krishna Mishra series is coming up. In between, I have written a children’s mystery adventure, and my daughter published her first adventure book.

The pandemic and everything that went with it gave us specific challenges, which have changed us forever.

Similar to Voice of Anchor. This unique podcasting mentorship opportunity will change the voice scape of podcasting in India (or so I hope). Obviously, I want to ride the wave. I have followed Pat Flynn since 2014 and started my Healthwealthbridge podcast in 2018, inspired by his work. It’s easier now with Anchor. An app I reviewed back in 2018 because I loved it.

Tomorrow is the program’s third session, and I am excited to learn more.

The last two sessions Voice of Anchor mentors include

Dhruvank Vaidya – Head of Podcasts at Spotify India

Rahul Singh – Co-Founder & CEO at Winkl

Rituraj Singh – Creator Growth Manager at Spotify | Anchor India

Raj Shamani – Investor and Creator, Host – Figuring Out Podcast Kandarp Relhan- Founder and Creative Director at Epiphany India & Host – Kuchh Ghaza

RJ Vashishth- YouTuber, Ex- Radio Jockey & Host – Lafzon Ke Moti Podcast.

Subscribe to the Doctor’s Creative Diary and unlock your Creativity!

Knowing there are no rules frees you from the pressure of perfectionism.The problem of imposter syndrome won’t be able to drag you down.Your mental health as a creator gets better. That’s also one of the main reason ,I started this podcast.

To talk about art,creativity and the visual language which is ignored in a world of written words.Don’t get me wrong.I love the written word,but I know and feel you and I can go far sharing our voice when we use all modes of learning and communication .

This post is also part of #CauseAchatter by Blogchatter.

Also check out How Artists Earn Online (Episode 3)

Launching Doctor’s Creative Diary Podcast #VoiceofAnchor

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on November 29, 2021 8

If you think the left and right brains can’t be friends, I am here to share some secrets with you. Suppose you are a woman who likes art, books, nature, writing & not just “does” what people expect. In that case, you must listen to my podcast, Doctor’s Creative Diary I will bring you inspiration, interviews, and REAL information to help you in your creative journey. Doctor’s Creative Diary is my second podcast almost three years eleven months after my first one and this time it’s for Voice of Anchor.

I am on a journey to find out how creativity helps in well-being and make money too. I plan to share everything with you. Buckle up because it’s going to be a wild ride, and it’s happening right here, in your Ear.

Engineers can’t sing, and Doctors can’t draw, and there’s no way you can have it all. I am here to share my journey about finding the creative playground.

Welcome to the Doctors Creative Diary podcast. I am your host Dr.Amrita Basu, ENT surgeon, and Creative Entrepreneur, bringing you inspiration, interviews, and information about books, nature, writing, and art to help you in your creative journey.

Did I tell you this is part of Voice of Anchor? You will know more about that in the show.

And here’s the show.

My Superpowers need more work, and in the meantime, I am Voice of Anchor fighting for the crown. But what’s even better is we are getting a chance to listen to the most innovative digital creators in the audio space. It’s exciting, and I will share my journey with you too.

I need to tell you something though.I didn’t get in with the first cohort. I was invited to the second cohort and that’s why I feel doubly blessed.

This is the best way to wind up 2021. When I started podcasting back in 2018, I had no idea I would one day get a chance to have my podcast heard by people at Spotify.

So I believe the universe listens when we say it just right. Do you believe that too?

In the next episode, I will share creator spaces that support artists, what I love about them.

You might also like my Healthwealthbridge by Dr.Amrita podcast about Health, wellness, and Entrepreneurship, which is also hosted on Anchor.

If you liked this, dont forget to share it with one friend.If you want to read the blog post, it’s here.

If you want to know how I made the Podcast thumbnail:I used my favorite CANVA Pro. Here’s a link to try the pro version free for thirty days.

Check out Episode 3 in the series

How do Artists Earn Online?

Hegarty on Creativity: There Are No Rules

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on October 10, 2021 15

Do you know what people like? Do you know what’s going on with the creative world? Is that what worries you as a writer/blogger? Don’t worry. You’ve got this. You can’t measure everything in life. Creativity is one of them. Though we look at data and statistics to find what’s working with writing/blogging, the truth is writers write because they love it.

There’s something about talking to your head while you tap away on the phone or laptop.

I am an accidental writer, blogger, artist. The universe guided me to find a companion who would grow with me, and I could take it anywhere.

That’s the best part about creativity. It helps you go anywhere you want.

There is simply no right or wrong except that it should make you feel happy inside. Or maybe that’s just my rule. You may have some other way of measuring why you create. Hegarty in the book Hegarty on Creativity: There Are No Rules, gives some great insights into the process of how you can get on with creating, without rules upsetting your apple cart.

The questions you should ask yourself as a Creative

Is this idea inspiring?

Is my idea daring or challenging?

Does it touch a truth? is a little dicey as truth depends on who’s telling the story and their worldview. So having an audience persona in mind will help. You are not chocolate and can’t please everyone.

Will it capture people’s attention and make headlines? This can be both the good, bad and ugly stuff, so choose wisely. Fame and notoriety are step-siblings with little margin of difference.

Is it fresh? Oh, if only there were a gadget/app/tool to measure content freshness.

Do you feel better, emotionally or physically, after creating the content?If all else fails to help you, the last one is reason enough to do what you do. Remember, it’s easy to be a consumer and challenging to be a creator. Doing it from a happy place makes it easier and sustainable.

How do you know that something works?

You won’t know until you have set it loose in the world. Then you can sit and watch. Right now, you can only collect your dots and create your work.

Creating something you love and that you would buy is the best way forward. Creating needs to be sustainable but creating with money being the inspiration can fall flat and dull soon. It’s no contest to sustainable passion, which makes money.

The author’s tip to getting rich (if that’s your goal)

Try inventing something the world wants. Something which makes us feel better.

If you are creative and want feedback, what kind do you need?

Honest feedback. So hold onto that friend, partner, a sibling who talks straight. Someone who tells you things just the way they are.

Wisdom from the Book

Have fun creating
Live your present. Make it interesting. That’s the only definite.
The future is predictable only if you invent it.
Money is a tool. You need to learn to use it well.
As a creator, you are privileged. Being thankful for it makes us even more blessed.
Your creative work is a legacy, a gift. What other people do with their gift is their choice. It’s an exciting and scary responsibility. But 100 years later, someone will look at your work and wonder why you did what you did. It’s not going to be a cakewalk, but it’s going to be fun!
Whether you write a story on the blog, paint, create music, or sculpt, you tell your story your way. Dont let any rules stop you from trying stuff. If you are honest with yourself, it’s always going to be okay.

Stop reading this and start creating your masterpiece. But don’t forget to grab this book too!

See the art projects we made in 2020 and 2021 here.

The world is waiting for you. Writing this for My Friend Alexa with Blogchatter.

Permission To Create and Finding Flow

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on August 17, 2021 3

Paul told us to write about it, and I can only tell you what works for me. I am going through a podcasting and video block since forever. I still enjoy doing it when I do, but with everything in life, this is going through changes since 2020.

But without boring you with all the details, I will answer questions that people ask me. How do You? Manage to do it all. I don’t. Yes, I said it. I don’t do it all. At least not at the same time. It doesn’t happen in continuity.

It doesn’t happen consistently, even though I keep on trying to be consistent. But I persist.
It’s my own Creative Life Everest. Before 2020 I thought being a doctor is my left-brained work and writing was so right-brained. But during the lockdown, I realized our brain doesn’t like to work with partitions. It likes to do stuff together. It’s an artificial divide that we suffer from. A perception of what’s right and what’s left. No one would be a complete human without a whole brain. So unless you are having a functional MRI done to assess what’s being used for which work or play, for you, we simply don’t know. But we can can some idea from scientifc research .But not the exact pathway which is helping you do ,what you do .

I digress. Sorry for the medical jargon. But what you learn and what you do happen to intermingle. Improve your brain. It’s not just IQ but Brain health. The more inter-neuronal connections you have, the better it is.

It’s your way of surviving the chaos of living. Life rarely goes according to the entire plan. So keeping a swerving margin is crucial. How well you pivot is behind how well you live. I sometimes don’t manage at all. I just read a book and think in the background. What is making me happy now? Will that work 10 years down the line. Why should we try to live and work better?

I am a big supporter of Digital health and Digital Education. It can help us make massive strides. But behind everything, we need a human touch. That’s why when you have writers block go back to nature.

Think about the last time you forget what you were doing while doing it? That’s your clue to finding flow. If you are to enjoy doing something, it needs to have flow. Otherwise, it doesn’t work. You just need to keep writing to get over a writing block. If you don’t feel inspired, you need to do some other creative thing that is effortless.

Write for the fun of it. Paint for the fun of it. When I read Living colors I understood this.

Ignore editing and publishing for now. Just write. Go out for a walk. Ask yourself, “what’s the most difficult part of writing?” It could be too much research into how to write. It could be too much obsession about the correct grammar. It could be fear of ridicule about how to do things right. It could be fear of SEO and lack of the proper keyword. Whatever it is, writing needs a story and an inner urge. You need to write because you want to.

Publishing, on the other hand, is a whole different thing! Don’t let the fear of judgments stop you from charting your own path. If the Pandemic has taught us one thing, that’s the flexibility of the human spirit. You can do this. Just start with the first 100 words. Do it in your diary, phone, laptop. Just keep practicing, and once you start writing in free flow, the publishing part will get easier. We are all born with permission to create.

It’s only when we start thinking we overthink and upset the proverbial creative apple cart. All of us are part of nature. Nature creates every day. You have permission to create. Don’t let your fears hold you back. Also, don’t leave your day job. It’s better to have a hobby outside work than a hobby to make ends meet. Because “Real Artists Don’t Starve“.

So create one day at a time. You can do it.

Writing this for Ultimate Blog Challenge and Blogchatter Half Marathon.

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Wellness, Writing

The Practice (Book Review)

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on July 2, 2021 0

Practice is all we can control .We become what we do.
Seth Godin

Creativity is always a difficult choice. It’s rarely for the faint-hearted. Thinking about who it is for and for what’s it for will help you make your creative decisions. It’s okay to create for your own self. In fact, your creations should first help you. Only then can it be of service to someone else.

Favorite nuggets from The Practice

Hope is not the same as reassurance.
You can learn to learn. Reading takes effort.
Trust the process
. Practice demands we make an impact on someone not everyone.
Desirable difficulty is important if you want to upskill.
Sign up for days of feeling of incompetence .Unlimited reason to hide our work and only one reason to share it full stop to be of service.
People rarely criticize the critic.
Become the best in the world of being you. . Curiosity generosity and connection.
Art helps us make something better.

Growth connection, service ,daring- Creativity
Bhagvad Geeta

Whether you are an artist, writer,maker entrepreneur, you need to do the work.There’s no short cut.There is no fairy dust.Its just the magic inside you to create. Creating anything is Art and Art has an amazing power of making things better .

When I started writing in 2014 I had no clue. When I started podcasting in 2018 I had little clue and when I started on my watercolor journey in 2020 it was a free fall.

l chanced upon the book The Practice by Seth Godin. Seth in his customary style says if you can’t ship it’s no use to anybody. Basically in the world now going digital, if you are not putting it out there nobody knows that you are doing anything. Even fewer people will care.

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Every day when I write or share my painting online, I am not even sure whether it’s worth sharing. I know it’s my journey and I want to encourage that one person who is still afraid. Sometimes a community can come forward to teach each other, even when each of them are still learning.

That’s what the Blogchatter community does. That’s what friends like Tangi do for its creators. If not for supported platforms like these, many content creators like me would feel overwhelmed. Sometimes teaching to learn, is the best way to learn.

Who is this book for?

Anyone on a creative journey.
If you are afraid of standing up and share your work.
If you are waiting to publish that one wonderful book.
If you have always wanted to share your paintings on Instagram on Pinterest on YouTube or even sell them on at Etsy, this is a book you must read.
The pandemic project gives me a chance to play with watercolors I haven’t looked back after that to learn .

Create if you ever doubt. Fear no more.Start today and you will be ahead of all those who never started.

There is a reason the medical profession it’s called the practice because no one actually knows everything. The time we are interns with practice what we preach what we read what we learn what we see our teachers do. With painting and drawing it’s a constant practice to different kinds but you do get better very constantly keep on practicing life, after all, is never perfect it’s a work in progress that’s why we need to be our very best alarm at least try to be.

Become the best in the world at being you.
Seth Godin

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Monetizing Creativity

So how can you Monetize a website?

Sahithya Jagannathan asks

Question by Abha Jain and Riddhi Deorah

Interview with Riddhi Deorah

Question by Pallavi and Shraddha

Resources on the Website I mention on the Podcast

One Rule of Creativity (Podcast) with Krishna Mishra and the Mysterious Movie Star (part 1)

The last two sessions Voice of Anchor mentors include

Launching Doctor’s Creative Diary Podcast #VoiceofAnchor

Hegarty on Creativity: There Are No Rules

The questions you should ask yourself as a Creative

How do you know that something works?

The author’s tip to getting rich (if that’s your goal)

If you are creative and want feedback, what kind do you need?

Wisdom from the Book

Permission To Create and Finding Flow

The Practice (Book Review)

Favorite nuggets from The Practice

Who is this book for?

Podcasts by Dr.Amrita Basu

Roshan Radhakrishnan

Vishakha Talreja

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So how can you Monetize a website?

Sahithya Jagannathan asks

Question by Abha Jain and Riddhi Deorah

Interview with Riddhi Deorah

Question by Pallavi and Shraddha

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Resources on the Website I mention on the Podcast

Sharing is good Karma!

The last two sessions Voice of Anchor mentors include

Sharing is good Karma!

Sharing is good Karma!

The questions you should ask yourself as a Creative

How do you know that something works?

The author’s tip to getting rich (if that’s your goal)

If you are creative and want feedback, what kind do you need?

Wisdom from the Book

Sharing is good Karma!

Sharing is good Karma!

Favorite nuggets from The Practice

Who is this book for?

Sharing is good Karma!

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