Love Your Creativity AND Make Money
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Momentum, move 1 step forward every day!
Make the art you love, go out & turn people on to it!
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Riding on the Rollercoaster Of A Creative Life
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Tell the story you want to, in the way you dream of doing!
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Journal your inner critic & learn from her!
You must be able to use the tools including touch typing
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Over the past 30 years, Face to Face Theatre Festival Director Colin Watkeys has specialised in producing and directing solo theatre and writers who perform their own work. He is now part of a world movement that recognises that...
‘If only we could know’ is the last line of Chekhov’s play ‘Three Sisters’, Olga, the oldest sister talks about the great losses in their lives, they do not know what is ahead nor how they will be remembered and repeats four times ‘If only we could know’. I have...
It is called a leap of faith for a reason: it’s not a small step or a sideways shuffle, not a little hop skip and then stop to look where you are going. It is a full bound leap over the side with arms flung to the air, not knowing whether you will end up […]
Could you get together with some fellow creatives and make a collaborative project? Maybe you could write and put on a showcase, make a film together, have a new work reading night or simply all turn up with a few paintings each, hang them on a cafe wall and supply some Aldi cheap champagne and […]
I wonder what tales you could tell through music, film or your chosen art form. We have all had mighty battles in our lives, suffered loss and moments of sheer triumph. Just as with hundreds of years ago we would gather round the campfire or village hall telling the old tales, so now short films, […]
Do you let your day and workflow be dictated by your email inbox, post and telephone calls? I have a long list of stuff to do from updating my showreel and doing a voice reel to reconnecting with those I met at Cannes and the sheer weight of what to do is oppressive. I do know […]
Most creatives tend to give their all to a project and then collapse in a heap afterwards. There are those few disciplined ones who manage to do their thousand words a day or a song a day but I am sure even those goddesses of organisation still end up with the mad panic of last […]
I have just returned from 10 days at the Cannes Film Festival and this podcast and blog applies to all creatives as it very much covers some of the ‘rules’ of being a successful creative, whether you are an actress, filmmaker, musician or indeed photographer. (Yes that is me singing in French on the podcast)...
I think I may have totally grossed everyone out but I had to get these shots!’ I am writing this whilst sitting in the American Pavilion at Cannes listening to a chat with Tobe Hooper, the director of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Lots of fun tales of how they created so many of those […]
The only way any creative project gets made is for someone to dream up the idea, take massive action and keep on when it all goes wrong. They then have to sell it, market it, keep driving their idea forward. Then they stop, rest for a short while and do it all over again. From […]
