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
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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...
After a project is finished do you give yourself time to relax and recharge? Or do you come back to the ‘real world’ after filming, editing, writing, performing and just want to hide for a while, especially when you see how much there is now to do at home? After 2 days of filming in […]
If you have to wait on others to do the work of making email banners, Youtube trailers, flyers, audio, interviews and podcasts all necessary to promote your next project, then you are handing over power as well as unnecessary money. Of course there are times when getting the professionals in is worth...
