Love Your Creativity AND Make Money
Sustainable creativity require exercise and an at peace mind
Advice on marketing my webseries by @Filmtrooper
Multi award winning playwright & performer Claire Dowie interview
12 steps to make your creative dreams come true
See yourself bigger & 'Ask Marysia', any questions?
Momentum, move 1 step forward every day!
Make the art you love, go out & turn people on to it!
Artists need big egos to make thoughts into things
Riding on the Rollercoaster Of A Creative Life
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!
Instill daily habits of creativity: Impress yourself in November
Don't give up your power: Pick Yourself
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
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,...
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...
I was away last weekend & ended up advising two completely unconnected separate people to read Julia Cameron’s brilliant ‘The Artist’s Way’. It’s the book I read many years ago that gave me the final last push into leaving the world of international finance to be an actress...
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 was in the UK Film pavilion at Cannes and I heard my name, it was Bruce, a producer who had worked on ’50 Ways To Kill Your Lover’ the series I was in that is currently being aired in the States and the UK. He told me that in its primetime spot in America, […]
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 […]
Is there a networking place or community you can plug into for your own brand of art? Maybe a book publishers convention, major art exhibition, or indeed where I am heading now to a film festival as I sit on the plane tp Nice. Creatives I think need to be surrounded by others who don’t […]
How organised are you with your invoices and expenses? Yes I know this is called ‘love your creativity’ & a ‘one hundred day blog on being a full time creative’ but that’s exactly why the whole invoices stuff is so vital. We all know work or commissions come on an irregular...
