Hello my lovelies, well my show has opened. In fact we’re almost halfway through the short run already. It was a total whirlwind learning this large role in a week and was a good test for me to see if I could actually do it. I’m glad to say that I succeeded in learning everything […]
Life Upon The Wicked Stage
It looks like I am taking to the stage. Like a fish taking to water I am excited to be ‘on the boards’ once again. It’s all come up rather suddenly (like in the past three days) and we open in two weeks’ time. So I have a lot of learning of lines and blocking […]
Creative Balancing Act
For years I have been writing Morning Pages. The concept of Morning Pages comes from The Artists Way by Julia Cameron and involves writing 750 words of free form writing every morning. The idea is that you dump out what’s floating around in your head so that you can then approach your work freely without those […]
Relationships = Work
As I have mentioned, I’ve got work on my mind. Much of my major work over the last year has come to an end and so I am looking for some work to do over this summer. It’s not easy because I have a month long holiday in the middle of it (yeah, I know, […]
Letting Go, Moving On
The whole point of being an artist is to let things go. Our job is to create something and then let it go, send it out into the world and allow it to have a life of its own. This applies whether we make a pot, a play or give a performance. It is something […]
Working Hours -vs- Billable Hours
Question: What’s the difference between a hobby and a business? Answer: Billable hours! This is a crucial thing to begin to understand if you really want to earn a living from your creative pursuit. I’m quite certain that you love to do what you do, whether that’s paint, sculpt, knit, sing or dance. You can […]
Radio Silence – when hearing nothing can be worst of all
Our job as artists is to create work. Our next job is to share that work with the world. We are in control of these two actions. Your success as an artist is directly related to the frequency and quantity of work you produce and whose hands you try to get it into. What you […]
Downward Facing Dog of Shame (Embarrassing Auditions Pt 1)
Up and Down, a photo by Nicholas_T on Flickr. (That’s not me in the photo! Some random yogi off Flickr) Last week I had one of those classically embarrassing auditions. I squirmed in agony all weekend remembering butt-clenching details. I had been called to audition for a commercial for a major UK grocery chain. The […]
Budgeting for Creative Survival
There are many great things I took away from my MA in Creative Entrepreneurship from UEA (http://www.uea.ac.uk/hum/mace/courses/ma-creative-entrepreneurship). The course leader, Ian Chance, is a charming man with a lifetime worth of experience in the field. He’s also wickedly funny. One of the things he taught us was to have our cabbages budget. As well as […]
Nerves of Steel
I’ve been a freelancing creative for over 20 years now. Sometimes all of my income has come from freelance creative work and other times I have had additional employment at the same time in order to grease the financial wheels. Due to buying a new flat, I took a contract teaching three days per week […]
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