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
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 […]
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 […]
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...
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...
What did you do today for your creative career? Did you spend time on the creation side: writing, drawing, singing, dreaming or perhaps on the marketing or shipping side and getting your next project out there? Did you spend time on self-care; eating well, go for a walk, see friends who inspire you or make...
I have just had the great good fortune to hear a lecture by Emeritus Professor Pauline Murphy of the University of Ullster. This amazing woman is deep in the struggles of educating and empowering women as well as working class men of poverty through adult education with EU funding with action based...
I know Paul Clayton (imdb link) not just from his many many TV and film appearances (Ali G Indahouse, Peep Show, Him and Her and he is recently deceased in Hollyoaks) but also he is the Chair of the Actors Centre and in January this year he played my husband in Sunday Dinner With The […]
The way you think about yourself affects everything from the jobs you book to how you do your marketing and the work itself. One of the benefits Ryan Lock is noticing about doing so much coaching is he is seeing this so clearly with his clients. These mindset traps stop you having what you want […]
I am having such an extraordinary week of successful, out there in the world, creativity; it would be weird but I am aware that I have been working so hard on acting, singing and creating forward movement that maybe I should not be surprised. The truth is that work begets work and the more you […]
When I am not being an actress I love to sing, now it’s more a hobby than anything though I have trained a lot (just ask my neighbours). I am singing and being broadcast live on Radio 3 this weekend on two separate projects. The project I am most excited about singing is Neil Hannon’s […]
