It’s the end of summer, and I am scheduling my last few piano students into their slots for the fall. Invariably, over the summer, there has been some attrition. There always is, especially when kids turn about 14. Sometimes, the kid can be encouraged to continue, but too often the parent has lost the stomach for the continued [...]
Archive for the ‘Musing on Creativity’ Category
Creative Careers: The Invisible Barrier to Entry
Posted in Freelancing, Musing on Creativity, tagged balancing your work life, Business of freelancing, creative karma, linkedin on August 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Best Career Decision I Ever Made
Posted in Freelancing, Musing on Creativity on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I still remember my parents’ reactions, 30 years ago, when I declared I was going to major in piano. You would have thought I had announced a death. And in a way, I had: My decision was seen as nothing less than career suicide. I had started out as a pre-med, not so much because I [...]
Do Artists Have A Personality Type?
Posted in Musing on Creativity, tagged Myers-Briggs on October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know how long this link will be good for, so check it out while it’s live; it’s interesting: http://jobs.aol.com/article/_a/whats-your-work-style/20080925115109990001?icid=100214839x1211087552x1200672438 It’s a personality test (quick and free). You answer four either/or questions, and the test assigns you a letter for each answer. Putting the four letters together identifies you as one of sixteen personality types. [...]
Routine and Chaos
Posted in Musing on Creativity, tagged Craft on September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Quite a few years ago, I got into a fitness routine, stopping every evening at a gym by a subway stop on my way home from work. It was an easy habit to get into. When I went freelance, my exercise routine went by the wayside. I felt like I had all this freedom, all this time, to do [...]
I’ll Write This Post Tomorrow
Posted in Musing on Creativity, Writing, tagged deadlines, procrastination on September 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The best way I know to get all my housework done — vacuuming, kitchen floors, laundry, even the garden’s overdue weeding — is to give me a deadline. Not a housework deadline, a writing deadline. I don’t know what it is about writers and deadlines, but I fall smack in the middle of the stereotype. I’m anticipating [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Writer’s Block
Posted in Musing on Creativity, tagged creativity, introduction on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My entry to the blogging world is starting with a very quiet little whimper. My subject – OUR subject — is creativity — how to live it, work it, play with it — and all I can think of to start is Writer’s Block, except it doesn’t seem to be one block, but a whole pile, [...]
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