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week using this management tool, cooking and eating is what I do most after sleeping (and some days that order sadly gets switched round).  This is the weekly Love Your Creativi[...] I LOVE MY BELLY MORE THAN ANYTHING That’s what I have learnt this week using this management tool, cooking and eating is what I do most after sleeping (and some days that order sadly gets switched round).  This is the weekly Love Your Creativity podcast,  the podcast goes into more detail but I know myself sometimes it’s great just to read the highlights, time management and all that so the main points are below For the last 5 days I have finally got around to using a time management tool that just involves a pen and paper (or a note on your smart phone). I have known about this for years but have never actually got around to doing it. Now that I have, I can report back that when I say ‘I have no time, I am always rushing around’ I know exactly where my time is spent. In my case I spent a lot of time in the kitchen cooking and eating. In fact I have spent over the last 5 days as much time cooking and eating (yes as stated I love food and my belly) as I looking at my emails, sending CV’s out and organising the business of my creativity.  I have also spent 3 times more time in organising the business of creativity than on the actual practice of my craft. So how do you do this? Well you could build a spreadsheet but that is way too anal and focused for me. I just grabbed an old A4 page a day diary and scribbled in old fashion pen what I did during the day. So I wrote the time I woke up, how long I hit the snooze button for, how long it took me to sort out breakfast and morning coffee, feeding the cat. During the day as I changed activities from getting on a tube to cooking again, to travel and time spent on Twitter I just jotted down the time. Was it perfect? No. However at the end of each day I added it up into the following  rough categories and then after 5 days totalled the lot Travelling Work on my craft Getting ready to go out Cooking/eating Faffing Cleaning/feeding cat etc Emails.CVs out. Printing scripts, ebay, twitter, Running The snooze button Blog/podcast time Sleep Actual time spent on looking at scripts Rehearsals and time actually in auditions Phone Calls. I suggest you try this for 2 weeks, I hate the idea of it but just in 5 days I am already seeing huge anomalies on where I think I spend my time and where I waste time. The snooze button and I have a committed 3 hour relationship over the last 5 days, far more than I spent practising my instruments or my voice outside of singing rehearsals, or indeed on working on text and scripts. Let me know what you learn. I hope doing it for a further 9 days will show I am learning to use my precious time better. I have been using my 13.5 hours travel time well, but I am now getting super organised about taking work and scripts etc to read on the tube. I remember Clive Rowe, the fabulous West End star saying to me that he used to sit and go round and round the Circle line to learn a script as there were no distractions, he couldn’t get on the phone or on email etc. So rather than getting upset about your time schedule, see where you can make small positive incremental changes. AiTunes rating would really help other people find the podcast so if you have a moment I would really appreciate it https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/love-your-creativity-podcast/id633181477 Tracking Your Creative Progress Here we also look at the  weekly tracking where I encourage you to do an end of week think back on what has been done, produced, worked on, booked and paid for creatively. (I don’t mean you are doing ‘creative accounting”!)  Whether you are a full time painter or a 40 hours a week office administrator who sings on the side, this is to encourage you to keep creating and make the world a better place, one song, poem, piece of art at a time.   I also have written a mini tracking tune for you to sing along to while you track.Time To Track by Marysia Trembecka Plus I did a Podcast in detail on tracking and its advantages. The following is what we need to track[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/12/my-blogs-first-press-set-your-brain-to-conjuring-titles-that-rock/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/12/my-blogs-first-press-set-your-brain-to-conjuring-titles-that-rock/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:45:20 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1052 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/12/my-blogs-first-press-set-your-brain-to-conjuring-titles-that-rock/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/10/learn-from-the-greats-on-writing-great-show-or-event-titles/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/10/learn-from-the-greats-on-writing-great-show-or-event-titles/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:47:59 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1029 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/10/learn-from-the-greats-on-writing-great-show-or-event-titles/feed/ 3 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/10/richard-thomas-jerry-springer-aletta-collins-on-creative-success/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/10/richard-thomas-jerry-springer-aletta-collins-on-creative-success/#comments Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:29:22 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1011 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/10/richard-thomas-jerry-springer-aletta-collins-on-creative-success/feed/ 5 0:24:43 This week’s podcast interview is two brilliant creatives for the price of one as they are currently working on their next project together, a musical version of “Made In Dagenham’. Aletta Collins, choreographer and Richard Thomas, lyricist and compo[...] This week’s podcast interview is two brilliant creatives for the price of one as they are currently working on their next project together, a musical version of “Made In Dagenham’. Aletta Collins, choreographer and Richard Thomas, lyricist and composer of such shows as Jerry Springer the Opera consented to be interviewed on Aletta’s terrace Just press the right facing arrow above to hear the podcast. Aletta Collins is an award winning choreographer, Associate Artist at the Royal Opera House and choreographs operas, musical theatre, film and dance. Her work includes His Dark Materials, Anna Nicole the Opera and Awakenings. She is a Guinness World Record for the largest ever online taught dance for Dance 2008, where they had nearly 40,000 people dancing in Trafalgar Square. She also organised and choreographed the amazing Paralympic Piccadilly Circus celebrations with acrobats, a giant blow up Eros and over a tonne of white feathers, most of which I think ended up in my bra. She won Best Choreography in a Video, UK Music Video Award for ‘Losing Myself’ by Will Young in 2012 My video of the Circus Ceremony in Piccadilly Circus Richard Thomas is an ex comedian who then wrote music for TV and then started pitching shows. He wrote Jerry Springer the Opera for which he won an Olivier award in 2004 and the equally controversial & brilliant Anna Nicole the Opera which Aletta also worked on at the Royal Opera House. He has also written half hour operas for BBC2, Shoes at Sadlers Wells and also paired up with the fabulous David Hoyle (whose shows have to be seen to be believed) on an alternative take on Christmas. These are some of the highlights of the interview, please be aware this is not a full transcript. Aletta Collins Sometimes ideas come from very site specific ones such as when she approached Somerset House about doing a dance on the fountains. However when she had an idea for a dance based on the film The Red Balloons, she then successfully pitched that to the Royal Opera House, Everything starts with an idea but that idea may change. As a freelancer she used to working and starting projects in very different ways, she also works with opera and musical theatre companies so then the process differs, she loves the scope of what she can do with Musical theatre and Opera in terms of budget and possibilities. Richard Thomas In the case of Made in Dagenham he has been brought on board but he is used to having to take an idea and pitch his lungs off and try to sell it. That takes practice, he once wrote a very bad script (his words not mine!) and took it to Los Angeles, there he learnt how to pitch, to talk with passion and enthusiasm for an hour. ‘In the UK if they like it will be just a short 15-20 mins interview, in LA they can say they love it after an hour and then you never hear from them again.’ He wrote Jerry Springer the Opera with five sixths of the credit, Anna Nicole the Opera he did the libretto so did both the book and lyrics. For the musical version of Made in Dagenham he is doing the lyrics, David Arnold the music and Richard Bean the book (writer of Toast to One Man Two Guvnors). Aletta Collins was always massively encouraged as a young person by her dance teachers, her first teacher still performs at the Royal Opera House, but even when she was teaching in a little village hall ballet class. she encouraged us all to make out own dances for exams. London Contemporary Dance School also she was encouraged to make dance pieces, it never seemed to be a big deal, you were expected to create and make something. Whilst at college, a piece she created at just 18 years of age got bought and toured round the world and then she got commissions from then on. However she has moved into big scale productions as well, she likes choreographing operas – she loves the scale and working with a director, designer, lighting designer, the whole team – she loved the team making work. so she started doing m[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/06/perfection-is-the-enemy/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/06/perfection-is-the-enemy/#respond Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:58:44 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=992 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/06/perfection-is-the-enemy/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/02/ai/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/02/ai/#comments Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:11:19 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=957 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/02/ai/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/29/refuse-to-be-flotsam-on-the-waves-of-life-be-a-strong-surfer/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/29/refuse-to-be-flotsam-on-the-waves-of-life-be-a-strong-surfer/#respond Wed, 29 May 2013 17:16:01 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=917 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/29/refuse-to-be-flotsam-on-the-waves-of-life-be-a-strong-surfer/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/23/prejudice-of-high-vs-low-art-never-forget-your-art-matters/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/23/prejudice-of-high-vs-low-art-never-forget-your-art-matters/#respond Thu, 23 May 2013 10:52:47 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=920 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/23/prejudice-of-high-vs-low-art-never-forget-your-art-matters/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/21/the-secret-to-creative-happiness-decide-and-do/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/21/the-secret-to-creative-happiness-decide-and-do/#respond Tue, 21 May 2013 22:18:24 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=890 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/21/the-secret-to-creative-happiness-decide-and-do/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/20/trust-the-vision-board-luke-let-it-guide-your-next-step/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/20/trust-the-vision-board-luke-let-it-guide-your-next-step/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 22:36:54 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=881 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/20/trust-the-vision-board-luke-let-it-guide-your-next-step/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/20/podcast-be-your-own-prince-grab-a-sword-kiss-your-project-awake/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/20/podcast-be-your-own-prince-grab-a-sword-kiss-your-project-awake/#respond Mon, 20 May 2013 09:06:04 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=848 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/20/podcast-be-your-own-prince-grab-a-sword-kiss-your-project-awake/feed/ 0 0:16:36 PODCAST  – This is my Weekly Love Your Creativity Newsletter Podcast to keep myself and you focused on creativity. Just click on the right facing arrow above to hear or go here on iTunes This week “Smile, create and carry on”.  It’s about pers[...] PODCAST  – This is my Weekly Love Your Creativity Newsletter Podcast to keep myself and you focused on creativity. Just click on the right facing arrow above to hear or go here on iTunes This week “Smile, create and carry on”.  It’s about persistence with a project. Believing there is a beauty hidden high behind the brambles, walls and painful thorns. The story of the 9 year writing marathon  of The Fantasticks, the world’s longest running musical, is of two writers who kept leaving it, coming back, then throwing most of the script away and just keeping a few songs such as” Try To Remember”. It was just a chance that a colleague took over a summer theatre 9 years after they started and suggested putting it on that they finally put the effort together to finally finish it for stage. London with snippet of a Fantasticks tune — Marysia Trembecka (@MarysiaT) May 20, 2013   So what project have you started and then left? Maybe you have got a first draft, a half finished painting, a song that needs a better chorus and then recorded? We all have these part-finished projects so your task this week is to get the one that niggles you the most out and spend 13 minutes looking at what it will take to get it finished and out of the door. Once you have finished it and then focus on getting out there, be it on your Youtube channel, iTunes, sent off to a competition, a reading or a gallery then doors always open and weird synchronicities can start to happen. However if your painting or poem is hidden in the drawer then unlike Sleeping Beauty noone will be coming to find it and kiss it awake to really live. Sorry re the metaphor but you get the point, noone is climbing through vines, dust and your ‘ideas’ file to find beauty or great art when there is so much stuff out there to looK at already. You have to be your own prince climbing up the walls, getting scratched in the process, sneezing at the dust I suggest that you do a vision board on the specific unfinished project to get fired up about the possibilities, my first and second posts on using vision board’s are linked up. I am just on the tail end of finishing a remix of my track Londontown. It is over a decade since I wrote it and this current remix reincarnation I love, but even with this remix we have gone through two other sets of lyrics til we have come back to the very first ones I wrote.  You can hear a snippet as it’s the music for the podcast. Also in this podcast, I encourage you to do an end of week think back on what has been done, produced, worked on, booked and paid for creatively. Whether you are a full time painter or a 40 hours a week office administrator who sings on the side, this is to encourage you to keep creating and make the world a better place, one song, poem, play, short film, piece of art at a time. The following is what we need to track each week as a look back in brief, full explanations are in the podcast. How many CV’s and emails did you send out for creative work? How many creative jobs did you actually do, whether 8 shows a week, a gallery opening or a song in a children hospice? How many auditions and meetings for creative projects? How many classes and workshops did you do? How much practise done that week, how much each day? How much money made through your creative pursuits? What marketing of your creative output did you do and what revenue generation plans put in place? Did you learn or see anything new or worth exploring creatively? If it is zero then dont feel guilty, just look at the coming week and endeavour to do better. Each week track these statistics and review the same day every week. Your creativity and bank balance will thank you for it! I also have written a mini tracking tune for you to sing along to while you track your weekly progress    Time To Track by Marysia Trembecka Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. About Marysia and Love Your Cr[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/18/podcast-10-how-to-be-your-own-publicist-marysia-ryan-james-lock/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/18/podcast-10-how-to-be-your-own-publicist-marysia-ryan-james-lock/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 23:57:50 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=832 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/18/podcast-10-how-to-be-your-own-publicist-marysia-ryan-james-lock/feed/ 11 0:31:03 In this Podcast interview Marysia interviews Ryan James Lock. In this podcast I ask Ryan about his ebook ‘Be Your Own Publicist” and get some advice and tips on what creatives can do to promote a show, exhibition or event they are working on as part[...] In this Podcast interview Marysia interviews Ryan James Lock. In this podcast I ask Ryan about his ebook ‘Be Your Own Publicist” and get some advice and tips on what creatives can do to promote a show, exhibition or event they are working on as part of the selling of their own work. Here are some of the highlights (this is not a full transcript) so listen to the show either by clicking on the right pointing arrow above or you can go to iTunes Love Your Creativity podcast channel The first half of Ryan’s course  Be Your Own Publicist”  is about getting in the right mindset and coaching –  -Ask yourself who is your ideal listener, buyer, client? – What beliefs are you holding that keep you from going  forward and getting yourself out there as a great brand or product that people want to talk about and buy. I asked for advice to a creative who is about to launch a product. The best piece of advice he could give was ‘You have got to decide to make it a priority for you, it is so easy to say I will promote my show but you have to commit to making this a priority, set goals such as how many people  do you to come to your event, how many book copies to sell etc Then ask Who is the ideal person you want to sell to? It is very easy to be general and say’ I want to fill the room with people’ but the more vague you are the more vague the results. Once you can say ‘I know who I want now’ in the  ‘Ryan Lock branded way’ and the reason why you want to target those people then you  can get clear on how to market your service or event to them. So you know what to say to them, marketing materials etc. If you have a friend who is like your ideal client or buyer, write a description of them and ask them what would make them go to an exhibition or book launch. Really important to be fully behind what you are doing Make sure you do believe in yourself You should be your own best publicist. If u know who you are going after eg bloggers or press, the path is clear as  you have got a specific message that is easier to sell. When you are doing a launch, the clearer you are on who you want there and how to get them there, clarity will give you better results. His advice on dealing with failure was fantastic. Failure – really acknowledge how you feel, first step through anything is being conscious of it, once you have calmed down, reframe your situation. He gives a great example of dong this with rejected writing, reframing and refocusing the article to a different market. Ask ‘what can I use from this  piece of work and process” where you have created something or a piece of work. “What can I now do to make this frustration work for me” such as  change the title and some of the content, hassle your contacts and sell it. It is easy to wish and sit there with folded arms saying why is no-one writing about my product but opportunities only come from being pro-active. I asked ‘How do you think we can balance the time it takes to create the event and the marketing and press  plus the social media Put systems in place Hootsuite.com to automate as much as you can Balance the process, using different sides of your brain, so for work effectiveness you must treat it like a job, really schedule things in. Schedule appointments with yourself, Tips for calling journalists If you are inviting journalists down to see your work, get in right head space What to say to yourself – “This is just a job, nothing personal,  they are very busy people so if they are snappy or not interested you have to realise that it’s not you. Write down description of yourself as a brand, it helps to be objective,  and then when you calling people you not selling yourself but your work. Make sure the journalist you are calling is the right one It is hard to receive negativity as a writer, painter, actor or artist as you are your work and your brand, understandable that there are strong emotional attachments but the wall you have to go through to journalists no[...] Networking, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/17/12-using-a-vision-board-to-guide-your-next-steps-to-artistic-success/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/17/12-using-a-vision-board-to-guide-your-next-steps-to-artistic-success/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 20:02:28 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=807 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/17/12-using-a-vision-board-to-guide-your-next-steps-to-artistic-success/feed/ 3 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/14/james-purefoy-speaking-shakespeare-how-to-be-a-successful-actor/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/14/james-purefoy-speaking-shakespeare-how-to-be-a-successful-actor/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 11:46:39 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=708 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/14/james-purefoy-speaking-shakespeare-how-to-be-a-successful-actor/feed/ 4 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/14/how-to-get-motivated-set-your-brain-on-fire-pt-8/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/14/how-to-get-motivated-set-your-brain-on-fire-pt-8/#respond Tue, 14 May 2013 00:47:29 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=724 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/14/how-to-get-motivated-set-your-brain-on-fire-pt-8/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/14/podcast-09-there-is-no-room-to-be-a-dilettante-newsletter/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/14/podcast-09-there-is-no-room-to-be-a-dilettante-newsletter/#respond Mon, 13 May 2013 23:32:39 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=716 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/14/podcast-09-there-is-no-room-to-be-a-dilettante-newsletter/feed/ 0 0:15:54 “There is no room for being a dilettante as an actor” Sir Richard Eyre informed me tonight. He wasn’t accusing me, just answering my question regarding his experience of working of some of Britain’s greatest actors of the las[...] “There is no room for being a dilettante as an actor” Sir Richard Eyre informed me tonight. He wasn’t accusing me, just answering my question regarding his experience of working of some of Britain’s greatest actors of the last thirty plus years. This is the  weekly podcast newsletter where we track our creativity but first I set a 13 minute task of the day inspired by successful creatives telling me the importance of hard work and unrelenting focus as a creative. Even William Blake got his oar in. Brief show notes Ken Collard, his website “The starting point is that it’s absolutely possible, there is no reason why, if you are half decent as an actor, there is no reason why you cant get consistent work.” His favourite quote is by Daisaku Ikeda, SGI President, the lay organisation of Nicherin Buddhists “Press on, nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Perserverance and determination alone are omnipotent” “Persistence – you have got to keep going, even though it is incredibly difficult, develop it!” James Purefoy @JamesPurefoy Some of his other gems on speaking Shakespeare I will post tomorrow “Be proactive, there is no such thing as resting. Work begets work If you are not proactive then give up, you have to get auditions, get in the loop.” Sir Richard Eyre, the director NB I took so many notes at his Q&A today it will be a few days before i pop them up on the blog “Actors need to be heard and be serious at what they do, they need to take their job seriously and work hard. There is no room to be a dilettante” Blake’s poem – Jerusalem, the unofficial British anthem ‘Bring me my Bow of burning gold; Bring me my Arrows of desire: Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire! I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In Englands green & pleasant Land” Beneath the poem Blake inscribed an excerpt from the Bible: “Would to God that all the Lord’s people were Prophets”: Numbers chapter 11, verse 29 All these people were saying ‘Decide who you are (actor/artist/dancer/….), commit and then get very serious about the business of your craft & getting better. 13 minute task of the day So sit down no distractions Decide what you are – actress, singer, painter Write down 1) what you know you need to focus on in your craft, technical development 2) for the business of ur craft What it is that you need to ‘not cease from mental fight’ from Then today commit to doing one thing every day for your craft & one thing for the business of your craft even if it is just 10 minutes a day on each Weekly Tracking Time The following is what we need to track each week as a look back in brief, full explanations are in a previous podcast . How many CV’s and emails did you send out for creative work? How many creative jobs did you actually do, whether 8 shows a week, a gallery opening or a song in a children hospice? How many auditions and meetings for creative projects? How many classes and workshops did you do? How much practise done that week, how much each day? How much money made through your creative pursuits? What marketing of your creative output did you do and what revenue generation plans put in place? Did you learn or see anything new or worth exploring creatively? If it is zero then dont feel guilty, just look at the coming week and endeavour to do better. Each week track these statistics and review the same day every week. Your creativity and bank balance will thank you for it! Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. About Marysia and Love Your Creativity[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/10/how-to-be-the-boss-of-you-the-superpowers-of-deadlines-post-7/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/10/how-to-be-the-boss-of-you-the-superpowers-of-deadlines-post-7/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 19:30:39 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=606 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/10/how-to-be-the-boss-of-you-the-superpowers-of-deadlines-post-7/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/09/how-to-start-thinking-like-a-successful-artiste-part-6-goodbye-henry/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/09/how-to-start-thinking-like-a-successful-artiste-part-6-goodbye-henry/#respond Thu, 09 May 2013 16:25:28 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=589 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/09/how-to-start-thinking-like-a-successful-artiste-part-6-goodbye-henry/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/08/the-wild-wild-west-part-5-of-dream-create-make-money/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/08/the-wild-wild-west-part-5-of-dream-create-make-money/#respond Wed, 08 May 2013 21:26:50 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=581 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/08/the-wild-wild-west-part-5-of-dream-create-make-money/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/08/how-to-be-a-successful-working-actor-marysia-ken-collard-podcast/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/08/how-to-be-a-successful-working-actor-marysia-ken-collard-podcast/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 14:30:26 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=568 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/08/how-to-be-a-successful-working-actor-marysia-ken-collard-podcast/feed/ 4 0:28:32 In this ‘Love Your Creativity’ podcast Marysia interviews Kenneth Collard, a real life successful working actor who has a huge CV from being in Albert Nobbs, Anna Karenina to many many TV series and commercials. In the interview we discuss auditions[...] In this ‘Love Your Creativity’ podcast Marysia interviews Kenneth Collard, a real life successful working actor who has a huge CV from being in Albert Nobbs, Anna Karenina to many many TV series and commercials. In the interview we discuss auditions, showreels, research and the mental approach necessary to becoming a working actor and earning a living as one. The Main Takeaway The starting point is that it’s absolutely possible, there is no reason why, if you are half decent as an actor, there is no reason why you cant get consistent work. Show note highlight  – (please note these are not a transcript but just some of the highlights. The full transcript of the podcast is below) The fact that  95% of actors are not working did not worry Ken. He made a decision 13 years, that there is no reason why he should not be part of the 5% and started on a journey to change that. The starting point is always that it is possible to earn a living from what you do and what you love. It is tough and difficult and when you get work there are always a new set of challenges, broadening your capacity, deepening your work and bringing something more wonderful than you have before. If you strive to create something amazing it will always be challenging and that’s a good thing and make you raise your game. His favourite quote is by Daisaku Ikeda, SGI President,  the lay organisation of Nichiren Buddhists “Press on, nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Perserverance and determination alone are omnipotent”   FULL TRANSCRIPT Hi this is Marysia for loveyourcreativity.com, this week’s interview is with Kenneth Collard. Ken is not only a friend of mine but a real life working actor. Recent film credits include Albert Nobbs and Anna Karenina and on television he’s all over it from Skins, to The Borgias, Cuckoo. He’s done some forty-five or fifty commercials over the past 10 years as well. He really gives some great advice the big takeaways, “you’ve got to come from a place you’ve known you can make a living out of this”. This is really inspiring. I also spent a lot of time asking him how to basically do more television and film. Hope you all enjoy.   Marysia: Hello, Ken   Ken: Hello, Marysia.   Marysia: This is Marysia for loveyourcreativity and I’m with Ken Collard, who’s a friend of mine and an actor. I do talk about you to the other actor friends of mine particular when they’re having problems not working. I said “you need to meet Ken, he’s a proper working actor.” What are you working on at the moment?   Ken: I’m working on two projects at the moment. One is a film called The Fitzroy. We’ve done the first main principal photography, finished that last week. We have to pick up in a few days or the end of the month. I’m also working on new tricks for the BBC. Those are my two projects at the moment, just waiting to hear on a third if I could squeeze that in and possibly more after that.   Marysia: You’re in Cuckoo as well. Are they doing the 2nd series of that now?   Ken: Yeah. The 2nd series was commissioned quite early on; the difficulty always is trying to get everyone’s availability. So yeah, in principal, this is the 2nd series.  It ran about September-October, we stopped filming on that but it really depends on some folks availability, if they can work from September-October then that’s fantastic. Andy’s waiting to hear on the pilot, then fox gets commissioned for a series if it does then we’ll shoot on that time so we can make even more. The idea is around September or October.   Marysia: When I spoke to you recently you were doing something for channel 4 trying to look at script for the next day for something else. I know myself I kind of get busy but I don’t get busy like you [...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/07/important-dates-dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-4/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/07/important-dates-dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-4/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 15:47:38 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=535 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/07/important-dates-dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-4/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/07/07-podcast-advice-on-criticism-be-strong-and-wrong/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/07/07-podcast-advice-on-criticism-be-strong-and-wrong/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 00:01:14 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=537 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/07/07-podcast-advice-on-criticism-be-strong-and-wrong/feed/ 1 0:13:10 BE STRONG AND WRONG This is my Third Weekly Love Your Creativity Newsletter and podcast  to keep myself and you focused on creativity. Don’t lay your dreams down because of some peoples negative comments. Some people will NEVER like what you do, so [...] BE STRONG AND WRONG This is my Third Weekly Love Your Creativity Newsletter and podcast  to keep myself and you focused on creativity. Don’t lay your dreams down because of some peoples negative comments. Some people will NEVER like what you do, so dismiss them and move on. Sure you look at constructive comments and see what positive actions you can take to improve, but never let it stop you. 13 minute task -Take 3 negative comments or criticisms that have stayed with you.  Somehow we always remember the negative comments, be it from a teacher, parent or colleague -Write them down on separate pieces of paper -Write down for 2 minutes each on how you felt and feel about these comments, and your behaviour and  actions that came out of that. Did you practice more, give up, get upset, get trashed and have a ridiculous affair with someone inappropriate, (I once had 2 funerals in eight days, the last being my godmother’s funeral and I ended up finally sleeping with someone who I had said no to for a decade – hmmmm not good), we do react from hurt and grief in bizarre ways. -Burn incense and a candle and one by one burn each paper, send prayer for the happiness of the person who made the comment and for your ability to heal from this -Or rip the paper into pieces and put in the bin -Or see the paper as tiny faded black and white newspaper crumbling to dust and throw away. -Make a positive affirmation, not a pie in the sky dream but a positive actionable move forward so if they don’t like the way you sing you promise yourself to do ten min practice every day for a week or a month. or ‘They didn’t like my art so every day this week I am going to make my art and post it online”. Make your positive affirmation an action based thing and move forward use their negative as a power to move forward. -Find the venom and strength in yourself to come back harder and stronger, refuse to lay down and play dead cos others don’t like your work. Take classes to improve where you need but keep moving forward. Dont stay in study mode either all your life, get your work out there whilst you are improving. Tracking Your Creativity The following is what we need to track each week as a look back in brief, full explanations are in the Previous Podcast on Tracking How many CV’s and emails did you send out for creative work? How many creative jobs did you actually do, whether 8 shows a week, a gallery opening or a song in a children hospice? How many auditions and meetings for creative projects? How many classes and workshops did you do? How much practise done that week, how much each day? How much money made through your creative pursuits? What marketing of your creative output did you do and what revenue generation plans put in place? Did you learn or see anything new or worth exploring creatively? If it is zero then dont feel guilty, just look at the coming week and endeavour to do better. Each week track these statistics and review the same day every week. Your creativity and bank balance will thank you for it! Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. This newsletter sets a 13 minute creative exercise with a full explanation of the weekly tracking where I encourage you to do an end of week think back on what has been done, produced, worked on, booked and paid for creatively. (I dont mean you are doing ‘creative accounting”!)  Whether you are a full time painter or a 40 hours a week office administrator who sings on the side, this is to encourage you to keep creating and make the world a better place, one song, poem, piece of art at a time. I also have written a mini tracking tune for you to sing along to while you track ;-)) About Marysia and Love Your Creativity I blog at least three times a week on creativity and techniques to get your art on. Whether you are a musician, an actor or a choreographer I endeavour to make https://loveyourcreativity.com is a place to c[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/06/dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-pt-3-go-local/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/06/dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-pt-3-go-local/#respond Mon, 06 May 2013 13:27:26 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=521 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/06/dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-pt-3-go-local/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/05/how-to-be-successful-dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-pt-2/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/05/how-to-be-successful-dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-pt-2/#comments Sun, 05 May 2013 15:37:09 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=506 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/05/how-to-be-successful-dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-pt-2/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/03/how-to-be-successful-dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-1/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/03/how-to-be-successful-dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-1/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 21:11:48 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=494 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/03/how-to-be-successful-dream-create-make-money-in-the-arts-1/feed/ 14 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/01/10-tips-from-a-casting-director-agent-a-working-actor/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/01/10-tips-from-a-casting-director-agent-a-working-actor/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 20:47:39 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=472 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/01/10-tips-from-a-casting-director-agent-a-working-actor/feed/ 7 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/29/06-podcast-7-tips-to-make-you-feel-more-beautiful-strong/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/29/06-podcast-7-tips-to-make-you-feel-more-beautiful-strong/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:43:11 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=450 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/29/06-podcast-7-tips-to-make-you-feel-more-beautiful-strong/feed/ 3 0:21:35 Seven Ways to feel good, more beautiful and strong inspired by the DOVE Real Beauty Sketches ad. The podcast has all the full details on but these show notes are for quick reference. Learn how to find yourself irresistible, fall in love with yourse[...] Seven Ways to feel good, more beautiful and strong inspired by the DOVE Real Beauty Sketches ad. The podcast has all the full details on but these show notes are for quick reference. Learn how to find yourself irresistible, fall in love with yourself and from there the world will be a better place for yourself and others. Thus you will be able to create from a place of joy and freedom. As Liz Ranken said in our interview, you have to get the ego out of the way and let the work come through. So first thing in the morning do the following 5 tips at least (should take you about 5 mins max), ideally get Tips 6 and 7 done too! First Tip   Think specifically of one part of you that is beautiful and/or strong, your boobs, biceps, skin. Second Tip  Find one specific thing you are grateful for regards your physical health and well being eg I can bend down and tie my shoe laces. Be positive! Third Tip    Pick a specific spiritual or human to human positive thing you did yesterday for example “I was really kind to X, even though she always seem to have exactly the same problems with men, I listened and was compassionate”, or “I was honest and clear with her about her choices of consistently unavailable men” Tip Four  On a creative aspect or in work and life think of something you are proud of. ‘I struggled to get my degree but I got it’, ‘I made a phone call I didn’t want to’, ‘I paid off and closed my credit card’. Tip Five Glen Walford reminded me of this technique with her own special twist to it. She is a great director and actress and among her many theatre productions she has directed some of Willy Russell’s plays including Shirley Valentine with Meera Syal that I saw and loved. She is an amazing director and creative who really reminded me of why I want to act, and can bring out things in you you had forgotten were there Stand in the room and say from a place of truth ‘I am very beautiful’ and believe it three times Then “I am very powerful” three times Then mix them  up, feel how your words change how you stand and feel, how the energy in the room changes as does how we change how we feel. Water Crystal Research and Interview (from 13.00)by Dr Masaro Emotu Everything in existence vibrates – see the crystal move to different kinds of music. Even exposure to negative written words (23.00) is amazing to see in water crystals. Some quick graphic clips on his research youtube on this Tip Six  Daily Exercise, ideally first thing in the morning, even 15 minutes or a lunchtime walk to the shops Tip Seven Accept a thank you or a compliment with grace. Minimum Seven days, ideally a month of doing this every day. Just remember someone has looked at you and thought about you that you are beautiful and strong, as a child a teenager, as a grown person.   The weekly tracking – Yours and mine This podcast newsletter sets a 13 minute creative exercise and then our weekly tracking where I encourage you to do an end of week think back on what has been done, produced, worked on, booked and paid for creatively. (I don’t mean you are doing ‘creative accounting”!) Whether you are a full time painter or a 40 hours a week office administrator who sings on the side, this is to encourage you to keep creating and make the world a better place, one song, poem, piece of art at a time. The following is what we need to track each week as a look back in brief, full explanations are in the podcast is here How many CV’s and emails did you send out for creative work? How many creative jobs did you actually do, whether 8 shows a week, a gallery opening or a song in a children hospice? How many auditions and meetings for creative projects? How many classes and workshops did you do? How much practise done that week, how much each day? How much money made through your creative pursuits? What marketing of your creative output did you do and what revenue generation plans put in place? Did you lea[...] Gratitude, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/25/8-creative-competitions-submission-requests/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/25/8-creative-competitions-submission-requests/#respond Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:19:53 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=446 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/25/8-creative-competitions-submission-requests/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/24/podcast-pop-up-theatre-in-the-community-for-world-book-night/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/24/podcast-pop-up-theatre-in-the-community-for-world-book-night/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:50:25 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=388 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/24/podcast-pop-up-theatre-in-the-community-for-world-book-night/feed/ 1 0:16:26 This is a special mid week “Pop Up Creativity in your Community’ Love Your Creativity Podcast to keep myself and you focused on creativity. This is some clips and conversation from an event I was involved in last night for Shakespeare’s Birthday, Wo[...] This is a special mid week “Pop Up Creativity in your Community’ Love Your Creativity Podcast to keep myself and you focused on creativity. This is some clips and conversation from an event I was involved in last night for Shakespeare’s Birthday, World Book Night and Brent Libraries drive to celebrate art, literature and music in their local community. So a big shout out to Brent Libraries for this at a time where some many councils are cutting the arts There were free books given out and a book reading from Imogen Robertson from her new novel ‘The Paris Winter” as well as her talking through her writing life from autumns’ spent in the British Library researching to then the first draft and Page 70 ‘hell’ where she always feels lost. She says she was listening to Ian Rankin talk about the difficult bit in his book writing and it always comes at 30% of the way in. Imogen looked up to see her husband pointing at her ‘Thats where you always find it difficult’ As a 5 times book published author she said she found it comforting that other authors go through the same issues.   Coffee and organic ginger and chocolate cake was provided by Dylans Delights (yum). I did a Blog in March about doing this great event Summer 2012 and 2 weeks later I got the call rebooking us. vine.co/v/bPJLQVXH0li — Marysia Trembecka (@MarysiaT) April 23, 2013 Contacts Alan Harman  alan.harman@blueyonder.co.uk Imogen Robertson the novelist was reading an extract from her new novel The Paris Winter @RobertsonImogen Email ImogenRobertson@gmail.com Tim the fabulous Urban Folk Singer/Songwriter   @timotmusic      Email Tim_O_T@hotmail.co.uk Also involved was Chrissy Actress and Phil Vasili – playwright and reader. Whether you are a full time painter or a 40 hours a week office administrator who sings on the side, this is to encourage you to keep creating and make the world a better place, one song, poem, piece of art at a time. My song ‘Vampire For your Love’ is available on my album ‘If You Can’t Make Love, Make Coffee’ and soon to be available on iTunes. To buy Album Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. About Marysia and Love Your Creativity I blog at least three times a week on creativity and techniques to get your art on. Whether you are a musician, an actor or a choreographer I endeavour to make https://loveyourcreativity.com is a place to come for inspiration and motivation. I also podcast interviews and this weekly newsletter via podcast with a 13 minute task. The dance music I use Londontown, is a track I wrote years ago and Andrew Hyde and I are currently working on 3 remixes of it. We will be releasing it very soon as a dance track, dub step mix and bar mix.  I figured if I was going to podcast I may as well use my own tune! The other bits of music are me, my inspiration and whatever instrument is lying around!!. Just go the website for the blog and you can subscribe there via your email if you dont want to miss a post. Equally please subscribe to the iTunes Channel to get the new podcasts without any more effort on your part Also you can find me and lots of other great podcasts on Stitcher Radio http://stitcher.com/s?fid=33657&refid=stpr Fun, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/22/podcast-its-tracking-time-marysias-weekly-newsletter-on-creative-productivity/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/22/podcast-its-tracking-time-marysias-weekly-newsletter-on-creative-productivity/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:10:07 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=347 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/22/podcast-its-tracking-time-marysias-weekly-newsletter-on-creative-productivity/feed/ 6 0:20:38 This is my Second Weekly ‘Love Your Creativity’ Podcast Newsletter to keep myself and you focused on creativity. This newsletter sets a 13 minute creative exercise with a full explanation of the weekly tracking where I encourage you to d[...] This is my Second Weekly ‘Love Your Creativity’ Podcast Newsletter to keep myself and you focused on creativity. This newsletter sets a 13 minute creative exercise with a full explanation of the weekly tracking where I encourage you to do an end of week think back on what has been done, produced, worked on, booked and paid for creatively. (I don’t mean you are doing ‘creative accounting”!) Whether you are a full time painter or a 40 hours a week office administrator who sings on the side, this is to encourage you to keep creating and make the world a better place, one song, poem, piece of art at a time. The following is what we need to track each week as a look back in brief, full explanations are in the podcast. How many CV’s and emails did you send out for creative work? How many creative jobs did you actually do, whether 8 shows a week, a gallery opening or a song in a children hospice? How many auditions and meetings for creative projects? How many classes and workshops did you do? How much practise done that week, how much each day? How much money made through your creative pursuits? What marketing of your creative output did you do and what revenue generation plans put in place? Did you learn or see anything new or worth exploring creatively? If it is zero then dont feel guilty, just look at the coming week and endeavour to do better. Each week track these statistics and review the same day every week. Your creativity and bank balance will thank you for it! I also have written a mini tracking tune for you to sing along to while you track, attached here for quick refreshment at moments of creative despair.. I thin I have just written my first Love Your Creativity tune (oh dear I see an album before me!) Marysia’s ‘Time To Track’ Tune   I cover my weekly progress or lack thereof Walking & talking the Bard’s lines at 8am, look what I found! #shakespeare #Globe vine.co/v/bUVjBKDp0xn — Marysia Trembecka (@MarysiaT) April 21, 2013   Plus what Liz Ranken podcast advice in her interview with me led me to…. creating a mini song at the end  having whipped out a harmonica Dont worry its tucked away at the very end so you can just stop listening early ;-).     Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. About Marysia and Love Your Creativity I blog at least three times a week on creativity and techniques to get your art on. Whether you are a musician, an actor or a choreographer I endeavour to make https://loveyourcreativity.com is a place to come for inspiration and motivation. I also podcast interviews and this weekly newsletter via podcast with a 13 minute task. The dance music I use ‘Londontown’, is a track I wrote years ago and Andrew Hyde and I are currently working on 3 remixes of it. We will be releasing it very soon as a dance track, dub step mix and bar mix.  I figured if I was going to podcast I may as well use my own tune! The other bits of music are me, my inspiration and whatever instrument is lying around!!. Just go the website for the blog and you can subscribe there via your email if you dont want to miss a post. Equally please subscribe to the iTunes Channel to get the new podcasts without any more effort on your part Also Stitcher Radio http://stitcher.com/s?fid=33657&refid=stpr Follow on Twitter    @MarysiaT
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Via email                  marysia@loveyourcreativity.com Facebook                  http://www.facebook.com/Loveyourcreativity As you know Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. About Marysia and Love Your Creativity I blog at least three times a week on creativity and techniques to get your art on. Whether you are a musician, an actor or a choreographer I endeavour to make https://loveyourcreativity.com is a place to[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/21/just-do-it-dont-care-what-anyone-thinks-marysias-podcast-with-liz-ranken/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/21/just-do-it-dont-care-what-anyone-thinks-marysias-podcast-with-liz-ranken/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:12:07 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=326 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/21/just-do-it-dont-care-what-anyone-thinks-marysias-podcast-with-liz-ranken/feed/ 7 0:31:15 Liz Ranken is a friend of mine, but yet again when I start to delve into the backstory and processes of my successful creative friends I am always amazed by their focus and achievements but most of all, their unrelenting focus forward on creating no[...] Liz Ranken is a friend of mine, but yet again when I start to delve into the backstory and processes of my successful creative friends I am always amazed by their focus and achievements but most of all, their unrelenting focus forward on creating no matter what happens.   Liz Ranken, RSC/DV8/Shared Experience Movement Director, painter (@nationalportraitgallery), yoga queen vine.co/v/bUgFDKerVhF — Marysia Trembecka (@MarysiaT) April 19, 2013     Liz Ranken is among many things -a RSC Associate Artiste. Imagine getting a letter from the Royal Shakespeare Company saying ‘I hope you consider the RSC a good creative home for your work’ – Movement Director over 50 RSC Productions A Portrait Artist. Her painting of Michael Boyd is in the Portrait Collection of the RSC and the archive at the National Portrait Gallery, despite starting painting for the first time since school while Movement Directing at the RSC. Associate Artiste at Shared Experience Having given up the arts at school and then started taking ballet lessons while reading biology she went to become a Physical Theatre Performer and Choreographer in Award winning groundbreaking DV8 ’My Body Your Body’ & ‘Deep End’ and with Shared Experience in such shows as ‘Mill On The Floss’ Asthanga Yoga queen Some links to DV8 DV8 Deep End that Liz did DV8 Your Body My Body These are some pictures she has done of Patrick Robinson who is a very established actor. He was cast as understudy for Romeo for the RSC in 1980 as landmark casting and has had a 24 year span in ‘Casualty’. He also had great success in BBC ‘Strictly Come Dancing in December 2014 getting to the last five. The big take away from this  is “Just do it don’t care what anyone says. If it feels like a passion just do it cos you get better by doing it.  Go with repetition and try something again and again or in different ways but you learn by repetition” She shares Tips on believing in yourself & your creativity “Just do it .. be driven by the spiritual’, Write affirmations before starting your work eg “I paint to my highest level so I might serve and inspire humanity’ “ I do 25 affirmations  before i do anything.” “Whenever i don’t do the affirmations the difference is huge. it’s the ego thats stops so many of us, and sabotaging our work.” These affirmations settle the ego down and bring her higher being up into more elevated state and in the bliss of the moment “Failure… i dont read reviews.” Full Transcript Follows Hi this is Marysia at loveyourcreativity.com, this podcast interview is with Liz Ranken who is an everything, a movement director, a painter, a physical theatre practioner, a writer. Not only does she create in many ways but she’s also hugely successful in all of these areas. One of her paintings is in the National Portrait Gallery. She has worked at over fifty productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company and has been involved in huge amounts of ground breaking theatre and dance work in the UK. She really is legendary and wonderful. She talks about all of this in this podcast and her spiritual practice, how she really gets her ego out of the way, how she has explored doing affirmations and proper physical and spiritual warm up before she starts work which has had a huge impact on her ability to create. Her big takeaway that she keeps coming back to is “just do it, don’t care what others say. If it feels like it’s a passion, do it because you’re going to get better at doing it, so do it”. Now Seth Godin in his startup school podcasts says when he wishes when he first started working as a freelancer that he would’ve asked each client at the end of each job to give him a testimonial which he could then laminate, put in a folder and build a body of work and show him new clients. Liz has an amazing testimonial.   I said to Liz that I’d like to start the show by asking if there was any real memorable moments for her that made her think she made it [...] Fun, Inspiration, Motivation, Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/19/2-powerful-podcasts-that-make-you-take-action/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/19/2-powerful-podcasts-that-make-you-take-action/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:58:15 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=313 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/19/2-powerful-podcasts-that-make-you-take-action/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/17/15-practical-tips-on-acting-getting-rebooked-on-low-budget-student-films/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/17/15-practical-tips-on-acting-getting-rebooked-on-low-budget-student-films/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:04:06 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=289 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/17/15-practical-tips-on-acting-getting-rebooked-on-low-budget-student-films/feed/ 2 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/14/no-complaining-make-art-and-be-satisfied-some-art-script-photo-film-writing-competitions/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/14/no-complaining-make-art-and-be-satisfied-some-art-script-photo-film-writing-competitions/#respond Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:28:08 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=267 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/14/no-complaining-make-art-and-be-satisfied-some-art-script-photo-film-writing-competitions/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/09/invent-a-weapon-of-destruction-for-robert-rodriguezs-new-short-tweet-him/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/09/invent-a-weapon-of-destruction-for-robert-rodriguezs-new-short-tweet-him/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:44:22 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=240 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/09/invent-a-weapon-of-destruction-for-robert-rodriguezs-new-short-tweet-him/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/07/call-for-artists-shape-the-future-recycled-art-competition-150413-deadline/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/07/call-for-artists-shape-the-future-recycled-art-competition-150413-deadline/#respond Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:15:35 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=231 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/07/call-for-artists-shape-the-future-recycled-art-competition-150413-deadline/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/06/podcast-you-have-got-to-hit-send-marysia-interviews-jason-hewitt/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/06/podcast-you-have-got-to-hit-send-marysia-interviews-jason-hewitt/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:15:38 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=204 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/06/podcast-you-have-got-to-hit-send-marysia-interviews-jason-hewitt/feed/ 2 0:39:09 Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. In this podcast I interview Jason Hewitt whose novel ‘The Dynamite Room’ is being published by Simon and Schuster in Spring 2014.[...] Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it. In this podcast I interview Jason Hewitt whose novel ‘The Dynamite Room’ is being published by Simon and Schuster in Spring 2014. It is a very inspiring story with lots of tips on how he kept going despite so many rejections as well as his writing process.   Me no photoshop – just me The full transcription of the interview is below if you would rather read than listen to it. The big takeaway for me  is ‘You have to hit send’, you have to get that novel/song/artwork out the door and into the hands of agents and the public. You have to be willing to let go of the work you have done and release it out there;  send it to an agent, perform it live, even to when you have to hand over your ‘finished’ novel, because of course we all know ‘art is never finished, only abandoned’ according to Leonardo Da Vinci. He also covers how he managed to keep working on his novel, even when he was also studying to be an actor,  doing a play, working part time all whilst concurrently doing edits suggested by his agent in an effort to get the book sold. Hope you like the interview and come away motivated to pick up whatever project you are working on at the moment and carry on working. Comments are very welcome! You can contact Jason Hewitt as follows Jason Hewitt: Writer – Actor – Playwright The Dynamite Room will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2014 Literary Representation: http://www.janklowandnesbit.co.uk/ Website       http://www.jason-hewitt.com/ Actor’s Spotlight pin: http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/2612-4505-9285 Follow on Twitter: @JasonHewitt123 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheDynamiteRoom FULL TRANSCRIPT Hi, this is Marysia for loveyourcreativity.com. Today I am interviewing Jason Hewitt and it’s just an awesome story of an author who spent a long time writing, rewriting and failing, to finally get the really big book deal. It’s just amazing to hear the stories of how many times he’s had to pick himself back up again. There’s lots of great takeaways from how to keep going forward, how to deal with rejection, and ultimately just how to hit send. How you’ve got to let it out of the door. You’ve got to get that first draft to an agent or finally when it’s about to go to print. So enjoy!   Marysia: Hello Jason! Welcome. Thank you for coming in to do this. This is the first official loveyourcreativity.com podcast. The idea of all of these is just to get an idea by creative people on all walks of art in life, how they manage to keep going through the successes and failures. Any tips you can pass on? You have got your very first published novel coming out next year, right?   Jason: Yes, that’s right.   Marysia: And it’s called The Dynamite Room.   Jason: Yes.   Marysia: Obviously it’s a bit different with this interview because I was with you last summer, so summer 2012, the day you got the call from the agent about your publishing deal. I remember it was quite a day. So can you talk to me of the process up to that? Was this the first book you had written?   Jason: No, I had written two before. I wrote one after I finished university which I really didn’t do anything with. Then I went to do an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. That’s where I wrote my second novel which took me many years to complete and it was that novel that got me an agent but that was not The Dynamite Room. We tried to sell that and ultimately failed after a couple of years. Then I wrote another one which became The Dynamite Room. So it’s been quite a long process. The Dynamite Room is my debut novel but it’s actually the third novel I’ve written.   Marysia: Over a period of what, maybe ten to fifteen years?   Jason: Yes, about fifteen years.   Marysia: Wow so you must’ve had a real kind of sense of ‘I have somethin[...] Actors, Inspiration, Londontown, Marketing, Motivation, Podcast, Writers Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/06/art-is-never-finished-only-abandoned-so-lets-release-it/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/06/art-is-never-finished-only-abandoned-so-lets-release-it/#comments Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:56:40 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=199 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/06/art-is-never-finished-only-abandoned-so-lets-release-it/feed/ 2 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/02/8-secrets-to-success-by-richard-st-john-3-min-ted-talk/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/02/8-secrets-to-success-by-richard-st-john-3-min-ted-talk/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:27:56 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=189 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/02/8-secrets-to-success-by-richard-st-john-3-min-ted-talk/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/01/keep-on-trucking-thoughts-on-advice-by-simon-callow/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/01/keep-on-trucking-thoughts-on-advice-by-simon-callow/#respond Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:46:19 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=183 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/04/01/keep-on-trucking-thoughts-on-advice-by-simon-callow/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/29/pop-up-art-always-gives-joy-andor-incredulity/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/29/pop-up-art-always-gives-joy-andor-incredulity/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:32:14 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=129 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/29/pop-up-art-always-gives-joy-andor-incredulity/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/19/do-your-part-and-let-the-creative-genius-in-the-wall-come-out-and-play/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/19/do-your-part-and-let-the-creative-genius-in-the-wall-come-out-and-play/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:55:19 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=96 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/19/do-your-part-and-let-the-creative-genius-in-the-wall-come-out-and-play/feed/ 1 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/18/lessons-learnt-from-building-my-platform-part-one/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/18/lessons-learnt-from-building-my-platform-part-one/#respond Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:57:36 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=69 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/18/lessons-learnt-from-building-my-platform-part-one/feed/ 0 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/15/you-gotta-commit-youve-gotta-be-completely-unafraid-to-die-bill-murray/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/15/you-gotta-commit-youve-gotta-be-completely-unafraid-to-die-bill-murray/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:44:12 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=40 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/03/15/you-gotta-commit-youve-gotta-be-completely-unafraid-to-die-bill-murray/feed/ 1