Just Some Thoughts
Awards and Shelf Space
Shelf space. It’s something many newer writers clamor for. They want to see their books on bookstore shelves. Oh, the honor! Oh, the delight! Well, one ‘bookstore’ is offering that opportunity—for a price.
Remembering Etel Adnan
Her advice to budding artists: “…being an artist means you’ll always be a little insecure and a little unsure, because you don’t know where you’re going a lot of the time–every act of creation is new. You may have feedback and there are moments when people will give you reassurance, but you won’t have that always. But that’s true of life in general, and people make too big a fuss over the struggles of being an artist, as though an artist’s humanity is different from anyone else’s, as though we are a different kind of creature. It’s not. We are not. Keep going.” She was 87 when her art work…
Jim Carrey: I Needed Color
Playing Hard to Get
Are you the kind of person who finds it hard to say ‘no’ when people ask you to do a favor? Do you sometimes find yourself buried under someone else’s agenda at the expense of your own desires? Well, I might have a tactic that can help.
What creators can learn from Chico’s
Are you getting sick of the rapid release merry-go-round? Do you think your work from six months ago or last year has become stale? Then you might learn a lot from the fashion apparel company Chico’s.