Ashley Evans
@ashley4evans.bsky.social
❤️ Creativity BFF helping blocked creatives find their voice again
💫Writer, actor, dancer who waited too long
✍️ Raw honest peptalks 1800+ Substack
🦄 https://open.substack.com/pub/wannabewisdom?r=i9b97&utm_medium=ios
💫Writer, actor, dancer who waited too long
✍️ Raw honest peptalks 1800+ Substack
🦄 https://open.substack.com/pub/wannabewisdom?r=i9b97&utm_medium=ios
The invisibility wound is what happens when you grow up feeling ignored, unseen, or emotionally invisible, and then find yourself reliving that ache as a creative adult. I wrote an essay about it. You know where to find it. 👆
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The invisibility wound is what happens when you grow up feeling ignored, unseen, or emotionally invisible, and then find yourself reliving that ache as a creative adult. I wrote an essay about it. You know where to find it. 👆
Keep on writing! Your voice is searching for its tribe.
I’ve been writing on Substack for two years.
Last week I was at 136 subscribers.
Today I just passed the 1000 mark.
At times it was a lonely journey but that very feeling made me dig down deeper to ask myself “why I write…” #writer
I’ve been writing on Substack for two years.
Last week I was at 136 subscribers.
Today I just passed the 1000 mark.
At times it was a lonely journey but that very feeling made me dig down deeper to ask myself “why I write…” #writer
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Keep on writing! Your voice is searching for its tribe.
I’ve been writing on Substack for two years.
Last week I was at 136 subscribers.
Today I just passed the 1000 mark.
At times it was a lonely journey but that very feeling made me dig down deeper to ask myself “why I write…” #writer
I’ve been writing on Substack for two years.
Last week I was at 136 subscribers.
Today I just passed the 1000 mark.
At times it was a lonely journey but that very feeling made me dig down deeper to ask myself “why I write…” #writer
I wrote something about why meaningful work often looks like failure...and why it’s still worth doing.
Sometimes the quietest growth is the truest kind. #writer
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Sometimes the quietest growth is the truest kind. #writer
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Why Meaningful Work Often Looks Like Failure
And what do you love about creating even if no one sees it?
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October 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I wrote something about why meaningful work often looks like failure...and why it’s still worth doing.
Sometimes the quietest growth is the truest kind. #writer
open.substack.com/pub/wannabew...
Sometimes the quietest growth is the truest kind. #writer
open.substack.com/pub/wannabew...
We’re all failures…every single one of us.
Anyone parading their life as one big success story is either masking or missing the real power of intimacy. That’s where trust is built.
I’m learning this in real time.
Anyone parading their life as one big success story is either masking or missing the real power of intimacy. That’s where trust is built.
I’m learning this in real time.
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We’re all failures…every single one of us.
Anyone parading their life as one big success story is either masking or missing the real power of intimacy. That’s where trust is built.
I’m learning this in real time.
Anyone parading their life as one big success story is either masking or missing the real power of intimacy. That’s where trust is built.
I’m learning this in real time.
Procrastination isn’t the enemy. It’s the message. I wasted a day, and this is what it taught me ↓ #creativity
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Procrastination Is a Signal: Here’s How to Read It
When you procrastinate, what emotion are you dodging—fear, self-doubt, boredom, or something else?
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September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Procrastination isn’t the enemy. It’s the message. I wasted a day, and this is what it taught me ↓ #creativity
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Visibility of growth in creative pursuits isn’t always obvious...you don’t get quarterly reports on the state of your heart and mind.
September 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Visibility of growth in creative pursuits isn’t always obvious...you don’t get quarterly reports on the state of your heart and mind.
Procrastination is a signal that the mind is avoiding a feeling it doesn’t want to face. This is where the investigation begins…
September 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Procrastination is a signal that the mind is avoiding a feeling it doesn’t want to face. This is where the investigation begins…
Something I’ve been thinking about this morning: Jesus has a branding problem. If I were his friend, I’d tell him to fire all his publicists, skip the middlemen, and start a Substack. Just his own words, straight to the inbox. Imagine the comments section. #jesus
September 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Something I’ve been thinking about this morning: Jesus has a branding problem. If I were his friend, I’d tell him to fire all his publicists, skip the middlemen, and start a Substack. Just his own words, straight to the inbox. Imagine the comments section. #jesus
Something that I’m thinking about today is, that Faith is not a religious thing but in fact, my belief in what I pursue with my whole heart. Faith in my writing…is my faith. Also, Faith is: posting to Bluesky everyday like someone might see it… like it…and maybe even share it. #writer
September 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Something that I’m thinking about today is, that Faith is not a religious thing but in fact, my belief in what I pursue with my whole heart. Faith in my writing…is my faith. Also, Faith is: posting to Bluesky everyday like someone might see it… like it…and maybe even share it. #writer
So I heard you want to learn how to track your writing in less than 10 minutes without turning into a robot? I share my process in my newest Substack! #writer
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Why I Love Logging My Words, Workouts And Rhythm
Do you track anything in your life—creative, personal, or otherwise? And what do you choose not to track?
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September 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
So I heard you want to learn how to track your writing in less than 10 minutes without turning into a robot? I share my process in my newest Substack! #writer
wannabewisdom.substack.com/p/why-i-love...
wannabewisdom.substack.com/p/why-i-love...
Tracking doesn’t have to be rigid. For me it’s proof I’m making progress, even when I feel like I’m moving through life in slow motion. I’ve been logging my writing, workouts, even (now) dance classes. And it’s helping. Do you track anything in your life? Or purposely not? #writer
September 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Tracking doesn’t have to be rigid. For me it’s proof I’m making progress, even when I feel like I’m moving through life in slow motion. I’ve been logging my writing, workouts, even (now) dance classes. And it’s helping. Do you track anything in your life? Or purposely not? #writer
According to my Fitbit I’ve burned 876 calories from outrage today. My soul is exhausted.
September 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
According to my Fitbit I’ve burned 876 calories from outrage today. My soul is exhausted.
Creatives: how are you managing or alchemizing your outrage right now? Let’s share. I’ll go first. I’m writing my substack once a week and dancing multiple times a week.
September 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Creatives: how are you managing or alchemizing your outrage right now? Let’s share. I’ll go first. I’m writing my substack once a week and dancing multiple times a week.
I’ve been thinking about this all week: What is that leap between being enraged by words and believing violence is the answer?
We have to talk to the animal part of ourselves that wants to destroy in the name of protection. Outrage is contagious. So is restraint.
We have to talk to the animal part of ourselves that wants to destroy in the name of protection. Outrage is contagious. So is restraint.
September 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I’ve been thinking about this all week: What is that leap between being enraged by words and believing violence is the answer?
We have to talk to the animal part of ourselves that wants to destroy in the name of protection. Outrage is contagious. So is restraint.
We have to talk to the animal part of ourselves that wants to destroy in the name of protection. Outrage is contagious. So is restraint.
✨ Outrage is contagious. The radical act is refusing to catch it.
September 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
✨ Outrage is contagious. The radical act is refusing to catch it.
It’s not lost on me that I’m one of those creators who shout self-help tips into the void. Like this one: You don’t need to be good. You need to be free. Art doesn’t live in perfection. It lives in play. #writer
September 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It’s not lost on me that I’m one of those creators who shout self-help tips into the void. Like this one: You don’t need to be good. You need to be free. Art doesn’t live in perfection. It lives in play. #writer
Being mortal, knowing I’m going to perish one day, makes me feel like I need to push in every corner of my life. Earn more money. Build a body that resists time. Create something so permanent it tricks me into believing I won’t vanish. #writer
August 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Being mortal, knowing I’m going to perish one day, makes me feel like I need to push in every corner of my life. Earn more money. Build a body that resists time. Create something so permanent it tricks me into believing I won’t vanish. #writer
You are more powerful than you realize. Every time you use your voice to speak out against injustices or support someone else, you’re strengthening the collective voice of empathy, reason, and human decency.
August 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
You are more powerful than you realize. Every time you use your voice to speak out against injustices or support someone else, you’re strengthening the collective voice of empathy, reason, and human decency.
“Here, we choke back our truths out of fear of judgment or backlash. Afghan women are literally forbidden to speak in public. We swallow our words by choice; they have theirs stolen from them by law.”
August 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“Here, we choke back our truths out of fear of judgment or backlash. Afghan women are literally forbidden to speak in public. We swallow our words by choice; they have theirs stolen from them by law.”
“The more we justify what should never be justified, the sicker we become. Humans can hold complexity and empathy at once, but when we lose that grounding truth that all human life matters, we collapse into savagery.” #writer
August 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“The more we justify what should never be justified, the sicker we become. Humans can hold complexity and empathy at once, but when we lose that grounding truth that all human life matters, we collapse into savagery.” #writer
Counting Crows was perfection last night. I was transported straight back to the 90s. Wild how music can be stitched so tightly to a place, a time, and people. I definitely cried a few times and memories I forgot came rushing back.
August 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Counting Crows was perfection last night. I was transported straight back to the 90s. Wild how music can be stitched so tightly to a place, a time, and people. I definitely cried a few times and memories I forgot came rushing back.