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 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 […]
Could you get together with some fellow creatives and make a collaborative project? Maybe you could write and put on a showcase, make a film together, have a new work reading night or simply all turn up with a few paintings each, hang them on a cafe wall and supply some Aldi cheap champagne and […]
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)...
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...
