Yes, Freelancing Is A Real Job
When starting your freelance career, or making new friends after it’s established, you may run into the very irritating attitude that what you’re doing is not actually a real job.…
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Author: Shane Mehling
The Secret to Being Creatively Brave: Ignorance
“Ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession, I think, that you’re timid or careful.” That is a quote from Orson…
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4 Important Things To Remember About Merch
T-shirts, beer koozies, patches, limited cassettes, promotional vape pens. Bands throw a lot of stuff on their merch tables, and often this comes at a pretty big expense. A modest…
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A Simple Cure For Writer’s Block: Copying The Greats
All good writers read, because only by reading do you figure out how to take all those great ideas and deep thoughts and transpose them correctly on paper: those turns…
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Do Better Tools Make You A Better Artist? (Of Course Not)
A guitar pedal. A four-hundred dollar camera lens. A fully-loaded laptop. A workflow app. Sable hair paintbrushes. “If I only had that,” you think, “then my art would finally be…
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Want To Be A Better Freelancer? Google Yourself
When it comes to building your brand, Google giveth and Google taketh away. While you can read all about how to make a better website, rule social media and network…
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Toss It Or Keep It? The Pros And Cons Of Hanging On To Old Work
Your fingerpainting from 1st grade. That award-winning poem from high school. The photo project you got an A- in freshman year of college. All of these things your parents may…
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Short Is Sweet: 3 Ways To Tighten Up Your Band’s Live Show
It is one of the most baffling features of the music scene. Not bad sound, nor low energy, nor too much alcohol can ruin a good band’s set more than…
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Enjoy Your Art Or Don’t Do It At All
To be successful at art, you have to be obsessive. You have to work long hours, fail miserably, make huge sacrifices and risk it all. You can also have fun.…
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Is Listening To The Classics Ruining Your Music?
Whether it’s the Beatles, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Dylan or everything by the Stones before the 80s, there are many musicians who seem to think everything good has been done already and…
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