
…ed liability protection you gained through your LLC can only be used if you run your LLC correctly. That means keeping your business and personal finances completely separate (with no “double-dipping”), keeping up with annual business registrations and state paperwork, and using contracts anytime you do work.
This love of certainty, however, did come at a cost. Much of my incompetence with creative tasks was borne from an identity that didn’t think of itself as creative because it couldn’t find a clear answer on the blank page. And when it couldn’t find a clear answer, it told itself that there was no truth there and that it wasn’t even worth looking.