by admin-eric | May 28, 2021 | Fine Arts America
Many creatives are juggling more than just their art and the rest of life. They are also juggling their multiple art interests. How do you find time in a real week to take care of all of your duties and responsibilities, work on your current novel, and also get to...
by admin-eric | May 21, 2021 | Fine Arts America
The Benefits of a 100-Day Creative Project I preach the value of maintaining a daily practice (or multiple daily practices) as the key to living our life purposes and achieving our goals. We do not get our novel written, our business built, or our body in shape if we...
by admin-eric | May 14, 2021 | Fine Arts America
I grew up very much aware of the phrase “the rat race,” which seemed primarily to have to do with men in suits endlessly shuffling by commuter train back and forth between Scarsdale and Manhattan. I intuitively understood what “the rat race” meant and why I didn’t...
by admin-eric | May 7, 2021 | Fine Arts America
I attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, a public high school specializing in math and science. One of our mandatory shop classes was telescope-making, an ironic idea for a New York school: as if you could see the night sky in Manhattan! We ground our own...
by admin-eric | Apr 30, 2021 | Fine Arts America
An amazing number of creatives and would-be creatives are deflated, derailed, and defeated by the opinions of others. The negative opinion may be offered by a marketplace player like a literary agent or gallery owner, by a peer like a writer in your writing group, by...
by admin-eric | Apr 24, 2021 | Fine Arts America
Fatigue is a real problem. Physical fatigue, mental fatigue, and emotional fatigue are plaguing just about everyone. This is especially true for creatives, who may work a full day job, have all sorts of other duties and responsibilities as well, and then are supposed...