Welcome to the Artist Survival Guide.  This site is a guide to help artists live comfortably.  There's absolutely no need to be a "starving artist", with a little help, a little luck, and a lot of common sense and practicality.  Some of this site is written from my persepective of experience in the music industry.  Some of this site is just basic knowledge that a lot of musicians do not posses - about business and life.

Although this guide is geared towards musicians, it applies to absolutely everyone in a creative field.  You definitely do not have to be a superstar performer in order to live well.  The idea behind this guide is to illustrate some of the pitfalls that I have experienced which are completely avoidable, as well as some of the tricks I have figured out which are completely usable.