Embrace Your Weird

Felicia Day writes a guide for people who want to find a creative outlet, return to one they dropped, or push an existing one further. It is a practical self-help book for anyone who feels stuck, whether they already write, bake, paint, podcast or play music, or have not yet found what suits them.

Day mixes her own stories and lessons learned the hard way with hands-on exercises. The exercises are meant to be fun to do, and they aim to help the reader get past timidity, rediscover what brings them joy and loosen up their imagination.

A large part of the book deals with the habits that block creative work: anxiety, fear, procrastination, perfectionism, criticism and jealousy. Day offers specific techniques for dealing with each of them. She also gives advice on building a community of other creative people, so that the work does not happen in isolation.

The book includes room for the reader to write and explore, so it works as a workbook as well as a memoir-flavoured guide. The tone is personal, upbeat and informal, with humour running through the encouragement.