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
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 […]
100 days of being an actress: canapé & champagne critic I am sure you do not want to hear every small detail of my Cannes film Festival partying but I will say that the Hunger Games Party I went to last night had, amongst other things, the best dessert canapés. The best savoury canapés award […]
Do you have your elevator pitch? That 10 seconds when you are in a lift with Spielberg, Saatchi or Brandon (Richard obviously not Marlon) and have only that much time to tell them your story or pitch? I realised just I did not, or at least my pitch needs updating or shining up! Today’s blog […]
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...
I am filming a short film noir in Salisbury today and tomorrow, yet again I get to die at the end. This is my 4th screen death this year, I am starting to wonder if the universe is trying to tell me something or indeed if the acting world is. I have fallen into two […]
Does your system of contacting your network need a rethink? Could you send out a quarterly or semi-annually emails or newsletter out on your creative news, projects and any awards or places where people could see your work? Earlier this year I finally bit the bullet and started my database afresh. My system...
