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Last week I shared five tips for managing your time contributed by Tamara Holland. This week let me share another five. Tamara is a post-conviction attorney for condemned prisoners in California, a visual artist, a screenwriter, and a mystery writer who lives in...

This week and next I want to share ten tips for managing your time contributed by Tamara Holland. Tamara is a post-conviction attorney for condemned prisoners in California, a visual artist, a screenwriter, and a mystery writer who lives in California and Croatia....

The following are ten ways that creative and performing artists give away their freedom with respect to the art marketplace and with respect to their career. 1. By hiding out. We are free to show up places, learn from people, see what’s going on – but out of anxiety...

HANDLING ‘CREATIVE DISASTERS’ The creative process comes with its share of mistakes, messes, failures, and other “disasters.” How you handle them determines whether you will give up or persevere. Here are ten tips that will help! 1. Mind your language Is it really...

A day job is a job whose primary meaning—or only meaning—is that it allows you to survive while you work on your art and your art career. Some day jobs are satisfying in their own right, some are completely unsatisfying, some are more like second careers with their...

Almost everybody feels the need to get better organized. But what does “better organization” really mean? Is it about having a good filing system and multiple to-do lists or is it about more than that? Let’s take a look. 1. Organizing for the long-term Each day...

Last week I provided three tips that you might use when, as a working artist, you find yourself bringing in far less money than your mate does. Here are three more! 4. Explain that you don’t want to feel—or be made to feel—one-down, inferior, or dependent because of...

Let’s say that your mate brings in $60,000 annually from his or her job and you bring in $1000 annually from your art. Given that that disparity is likely to put a strain on your relationship, what can you do to reduce that strain? You can’t just snap your fingers and...

Take a peek at the following five quotes. 1. "I am closer to my work than to anything on earth. That's my marriage." -- Louise Nevelson 2. "With my idealism about dance, it was insane to pretend that I could compromise in another area of my life. So I am not available...

Last week we looked at three obstacles to effective marketplace relating: finding that anxiety gets in the way, not knowing what to say, and feeling one down or one-up to people hold the power and the purse strings. This week we look at three more obstacles—and what...