Well, the why is easy: You won’t make any money and will be stuck in a dead-end day job forever while you toil away for your art in obscurity.Harsh? Yes. True? Hell, yes.See, we creatives—writers, painters, illustrators, actors, ...READ»
Many people are under the impression that with creating always comes joy. Wrong! Most of the time, the emotional journey of creating starts with agony. Agony at not getting it right, at not finishing on time, at not remembering every ...READ»
Adding 10 per day, I'll be listing 100 ways to get funding for green business. From bootstrapping to angel investors and Grants there is plenty of money to go around! Check it out!READ»
Here’s the rudest, cruelest awakening to telling your story in
writing: Most of the time, you will feel like you’re failing. Like what
you’re spewing out onto paper (or screen) is the lamest, most cliché,
least ...READ»
The crux of writing a successful (interesting, moving, powerful, life-changing) memoir is, of course, being able to remember the experiences that shaped a certain period of your life. But you have to do more than simply recall those ...READ»
It’s like the girl from Kansas said: There’s no place like home… that is, to evoke hundreds of memories, stories, and emotions that you can use for writing your memoir. (The second part of the sentence, Dorothy did not say.)When ...READ»
There’s a lot of memoir-writing advice out there. Some of it is good, some is completely obvious (and therefore unhelpful), and some crosses the line into stupid and potentially harmful to your story. A few choice examples of the ...READ»
