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Are you up for a challenge? Do you want to flex your creative habit muscles and be super impressed with yourself for years to come? Are you up for proving to yourself that you can actually write a novel in a month around your normal schedule? November 1st is the start date for NaNoWriMo, National […]
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 […]
I was away recently at a course and one of the group exercises was acknowledging our ‘one true evil’, that one habit that gets in our way of really fulfilling our dreams. Examples can be: Procrastination Perfectionism Last minute.com itus Enjoying the drama of your crazy friends and hence...
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...
I have been working with some actors and one said ‘I am not into social media, I don’t do it’ and I spent the next twenty minutes arguing social media’s importance in establishing yourself as your brand as a creative. Whether you are an actor, musician, writer, painter or filmmaker...
I have been mid a major move, moves actually, everything in my life seems to be changing. Even the things I don’t want to change have been changed for me, my agent has left, a lover is not showing the attention I want, my lease on my lovely flat has come to an end. And […]
‘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, […]
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 […]
