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 have spent today fighting with technology and managed to get it sorted so you can now watch my webinar on Five Ways to get your project done as a creative for free on Thursday. More details here! Page for workshop. As always when doing something new I procrastinate and then the looming deadline...
Podcast 30:David Monteith, award winning podcaster, actor, director and tutor. I did a class with David years ago on podcasting and also used to be in a singing class with his now wife Siobhan. David is an award winning podcaster ‘Geek Syndicate’ who also acts, directs and teaches. He has just been...
If I have a God it is Bacchus & he has branded me. I always find it fascinating how when dealing with strangers, family and friends who upon hearing you are an artiste/actor/musician ask the most personal questions about your finances. Would I ask a bank manager or a Waitrose aisle stacker about...
How to Recognize Your Extraordinary Gifts and Abilities. Love this post! So beautiful mutants, who become that from the passion and time they put into their chosen area, go be extra superhero-powery this weekend. (hmm maybe my gift is not in making up words a la William Shakespeare who apparently added...
My Dog ~ The Paradox | Dirty White Boy. This is a fabulous cartoon about a man and his dog, it is funny, true and poignant. Having just lost my Bengal cats to old age (17.5 years!!) I did get a little sad but a cartoon on the joy and point of life is a […]
RSA Films. I love this video (click on the link) for it’s strong imagery, particularly the shotgun with the drag queen shots. It reminded me in some ways of a play I saw a few years ago by Gerald Thomas, the amazing theatre and opera director. ‘Throats’ was so out there I had to see […]
“Without passion, all the skill in the world won’t lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.” Quote from The Creative Life by Twyla Tharp, the best book on the truth of the creative...
Yeah to me and all the other NaNoWriMo-ers out there. I didn’t have a plan, just a little idea for a novel but I aimed at that 1667 words per day and left a dinner party early so I could finish the 50k target by Nov 30th 😉 Deadlines always work.
In response to a question I had about from a screenwriter on how to improve his dialogue I sent him the following answer. Any thoughts fellow actors and writers – or disagreements? ‘I would get actors to read the script and then sit back and watch where the thoughts/sub text are expressed...
I am having a great Sunday so far, I have cleaned my apartment whilst singing and dancing to the radio, cleaned my Orchid leaves with Wyborowa vodka (only the best for my orchids) and now about to hit the gym to lift heavy so I am feeling very positive. Plus when I get back I […]
