When you start doing anything new, there is a moment of awkwardness. You learned to walk when you were little…you fell down, you got back up again. Can you accept falling down again now that you’re all grown up? The ability to accept temporary awkwardness is one of the greatest abilities of any creative professional…. Continue Reading
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Are You Fighting for Your Creativity?
They are mad at me. Again. Multiple people in my life, all wanting me to change. They can feel it. They can feel that I am fighting for my creativity. What I realized tonight is that not only am I fighting for my creativity, I am fighting for my Life. And it frightens them. Are… Continue Reading
Why Creativity Happens at Night
A few highly creative people have been talking about creativity and the elusive night hours. I recently wrote about this creative phenomenon in a recent blog post getting a lot of traffic on my website entitled Music Vampires. In that post I was writing specifically about how music is best created at night. Today I want to… Continue Reading
Re-Evaluate Everything About Your Life
I guess this past year could be entitled just like Andrew W.K.’s popular TV show: DESTROY. BUILD. DESTROY! This past year was my personal year of destruction. Some destruction happened to me. Some destruction I created. Now with the New Year it’s time to build again. Bigger. Better. Because nearly everything was destroyed around us,… Continue Reading