3 Ways to Gamify Your Career
Sometimes too much work can feel like, well, too much work. Savvy creatives know how to reset their priorities and replenish their work lives with the help of a bit…
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Author: Erin Blakemore
3 Tips For Mastering Monotasking
If you’re a creative person, chances are you’ve mastered the fine art of multitasking—or at least think you have. But in the face of growing evidence that trying to do…
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3 Tips For Ruthless Self-Editing
For a writer, I sure do hate the process of coming up with creative concepts and pounding out words—but I love to edit. I get endless pleasure out of arranging…
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Chop Wood, Carry Water: Why It’s Okay for Freelancing to Feel Like Work
If you freelance for a living, you might be shocked and disappointed to learn that the work you fought so hard for feels like...well, work. And that means that something…
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Do You Have to Be Brave to Be an Artist?
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers…
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The Best Way To Network: Don’t Network
If you’re anything like me, the word “networking” makes your skin crawl. Is there anything more intimidating, offputting, and slightly skeevy than the prospect of attending a networking event or…
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I Don’t Wanna: How To Find Motivation When You’re Freelancing
You’re sore and bored, so you skip the gym. You reschedule an appointment that’s making you break out in hives. You take a rain check on that social event—your friends…
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3 Ways to Make Winter Your Most Creative Season
Between marketing, invoicing, and actually working, freelancing can feel like a grind. Add a bit of cold weather, some post-holiday ennui, and a bit of same-old, same-old and the new…
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5 Artists Who Overcame Dire Circumstances to Become Household Names
A single tumbleweed blows across a deserted Western town. A bucket creaks above an empty well. If any of these metaphors sound like your creative life, you're not alone. In…
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