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How to be a successful creative: create in the corners of your life
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
18 tips on writing a Press Release & Bios
Last Friday I found myself putting on makeup at 10pm, not as normally to go out clubbing or late drinks (this is what nearly 2 decades of living in Soho London does to you!) but to get ready for a midnight interview and chat. Scott McMahon of Film Marketing Fridays was amazing at answering my […]
No I am not talking about you after this Easter weekend’s chocolate orgy 😉 How do you see yourself? As a creative who has a day job? A parent who no longer has all the time you used to have to make the art you want? Do you see yourself as an actress or one […]
‘You have to make sure that every day something has been achieved, even if it is that one small script is signed off. …Especially important with creatives who can get ‘down’. It is vital to not to have a day where nothing happens as that one day becomes two, and it becomes acceptable...
I don’t think your ego is big enough. You need to fall in love with your next idea, so madly that you squirrel time away, made secret assignations, waste hours dreaming of the possibilities, be willing to forgive your project having tantrums and not do what it’s told and still be willing...
When was the last time you got the thrill of making and following through on one of your projects? Whether it is writing a story and reading it to friends, or making, editing and showing your short film at a screening, turning creative thoughts into actual things is always a roller coaster ride of hope,...
I don’t do guilt. So I am asking this question in the gentlest tone you can imagine: how do you feel in the second month of the new year? I’d guess you are managing to eat better and one New Years Resolution is doing OK. However have you actually done anything about writing that script, […]
What is your dream right now? What is the one project you talk and dream about and yet you have not done anything about this week, month or year? I do understand. This is the age of writing a novel and self publishing, a song & putting it onto CD Baby & iTunes, recording YouTube […]
There is always so much negative stuff talked about the inner critic and inner editor. Yes we have to create from a place of freedom and after that is finished then we go in with our editor’s scalpel. Yelling ‘why are you being so shit right now!’ at yourself does not help you on stage...
As a creative, not only do you need to be talented and well practised at your art, be it as a novelist, actor, musician or filmmaker but you also have to be able to use all the relevant tools for marketing and ideally making your art yourself. Basic video, audio, photo editing and website admin […]
We all know how hard it is to write press releases and bios (biographies) especially when they are about yourself or your own project. I had to write a fast bio last week as I am doing a very cool immersive theatre event at the Hoxton Hotel directed by Simon Evans and the production company […]
