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Let’s say you’ve got your event listed in all the newspaper calendars (which you learned how to do at http://createworklive.com/2008/10/15/getting-in-print-local-listings/). But now you think it deserves a bit more print than a teeny mention in 6-point type. You want an article about it. Maybe even a picture. After all, newspapers and magazines are full of articles about just such [...]

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When I started teaching, some of the first advice I got from other teachers was to implement a “studio policy.” I’d never heard of a studio policy, and at first it seemed a little unnecessary: Like everyone else, I started with only a few students. It seemed ridiculous to implement and enforce a rigid policy when in [...]

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So, how do you get a teaching gig? First of all, have a clear idea of which kids of gigs you want to go after: A school, private teaching, community college, whatever.  Imagine your ideal situation: Would you do your creative work in the morning? Or are you a performer who needs to work nights? When [...]

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Artists seem to fall into one of two categories: Either we are at home in front of the footlights, flirting with interviewers and seducing audiences, or we are nervous wrecks, cowering in the back of the room hoping no one will call on us. Some of us are both: I am completely comfortable giving a prepared talk to an audience [...]

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First a disclaimer: We’re not really talking about web design here. We’re talking about something much more simple: Getting your stuff on the web, using resources that are readily available and inexpensive. It’s easy to be intimidated: professional web design can be a complex art form, incorporating visual design elements like type, color selection, text blocks, widgets, pictures, charts, and [...]

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“Writing is dead,” A business major once told me. “Who cares? I’ll just have my secretary do it.” Fast forward a few years: “I was wrong. I wish I knew how to write better. We don’t even HAVE secretaries anymore.” Yes, IMing and text messaging have created a new sub-language. But computers have not led us [...]

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You know the stereotype of the artist: We musicians, painters, or writers are locked away in our garrets, obsessively making music, slapping paint on a canvas, or struggling to come up with the perfect metaphor.  Sometimes I WISH that’s all we had to do! As we all learn, all too soon, creating our art is only part of the equation [...]

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How exactly do you get that first magazine assignment? Get paid to travel the world? Get an agent to look at your book proposal? If you’re a specialist in another field, or another art, can you really get someone to publish you? If you’re wondering, check out this series of classes, offered by the Renegade Writer. I’ve [...]

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Over the weekend, I was at a reunion for a summer camp I used to go to, and inevitably, there was a lot of updating of information: where people had ended up, who had kids (and grand-kids, even), who still was in touch with whom, and what work people were doing. “I’m a writer and a music teacher and a piano player” [...]

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David sometimes grabs a group of students from his guitar class at Berkshire Community College, and they head over to the local Farmer’s Market to provide entertainment. At the end of the morning, the market’s organizer goes around and collects goodies from the vendors to give to the musicians as a thank you gift. I never know [...]

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