Actress Karen Allen lives two towns away from me, and in a rural area where everyone knows everyone, that makes her practically a next door neighbor. I used to teach her son piano. Last night, Karen was on the schedule to speak at one of our community venues: The Monterey General Store, located in teeny Monterey, Massachusetts, which [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Lessons from My Neighbor: An Evening with Karen Allen
Posted in Film, Musing on Creativity, Performing, tagged acting, films, Indiana Jones, Karen Allen, Monterey General Store on August 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Balancing Act
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, Musing on Creativity, tagged balancing your work life on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the biggest challenges of being self-employed in a creative field is that you get to do what you love all day — and get paid for it. “Wait!” you say. “Just how exactly is THAT a challenge. That’s what I WANT!” Just try it for a while, and you’ll see what I mean. Turning [...]
Rejection: It’s Nothing Personal
Posted in Freelancing, Musing on Creativity, tagged rejections on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rejections: There is no such thing as an artist who doesn’t encounter them. Voltaire called Shakespeare’s Hamlet the “work of a drunken savage.” The San Francisco Examiner told Rudyard Kipling that he “didn’t know how to use the English language.” Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead was rejected because the editor thought there would be no audience for [...]
Assisting at a Concert
Posted in Creative Communities, Performing, tagged audiences, Performing on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was in Parma, Italy earlier in the year, on a tour led by an erudite Englishwoman. In explaining the itinerary, she announced that arrangements had been made for our group to assist at a rehearsal at Parma’s Opera House. I tried to image just what kind of assistance we’d be offering at the storied concert hall, [...]
Vanity Surfing: Who’s Stealing Your Stuff?
Posted in Business Issues, Copyrights and Contracts, Freelancing, Internet Issues, Writing, tagged Copyright, copyright violation, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, plagiarism on August 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
People are stealing your stuff. They are stealing your words and your pictures, your songs and your performances, and they are using them and even reselling them all over the Web. Don’t believe me? Do a little vanity surfing… If you’ve got a body of work that has gotten out to the public, chances are that some of [...]
Vanity Surfing: Who’s Saying What About You?
Posted in Internet Issues, tagged internet reputation, Vanity surfing on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the tricks freelancers get really good at is doing workish-looking things that aren’t work at all. For instance, aimlessly surfing the Internet (we’re finding ideas), organizing our e-mail (we can’t get motivated to start that article) or organizing our libraries (we might need to find something someday.) But nothing combines procrastination and ego-stroking [...]
Vanity Surfing: Finding Cool Stuff
Posted in Internet Issues, Writing, tagged Add new tag, blog stats, Karen berger's books, translations, Vanity surfing on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you have a blog, you already know the dangers of the little link called “stats” which tells you not only how many people are visiting your blog, but all kinds of other things, like whether they found you through a Google search or a Yahoo group…. It’s REALLY addictive. “WOW! Someone clicked on my [...]
Staying Fresh
Posted in Freelancing, Musing on Creativity on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the challenges of being a self-employed creative person is that we tend to fall into what I have come to call “success ruts.” We get good at a certain type of writing, or music, or photography, or whatever, so we get clients. Then we get a reputation. Then we get called to do [...]
Health Insurance
Posted in Business Issues, tagged health insurance on August 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
If you don’t live in the USA, you can skip this post. We know, we know: You have national health insurance, we don’t. What can I say? We’re slow learners. For the rest of you: Yes, you need it. Even if you’re really young and really healthy and don’t even have a doctor because you’re [...]
Can Do, Can’t Teach?
Posted in Teaching, tagged can do can't teach, Teaching on August 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a flip on that old saying, “Those who can do, those who can’t teach.” “Those who can — CAN’T teach.” I discovered this little anti-cliche today, and I’m wondering about it. It made me think of a guy I once had as a teacher in a bike repair class — one of those public classroom sorts of [...]
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