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• How To Give Good Meeting Part Two: Four Key Strategies
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How to Be a Showrunner Part 2: Climbing the Writers Room Ranks
4 New Year’s Intentions for Screenwriters
How to Transition to a New Hollywood Career
It’s All About Who You Know: 5 Simple Tips for Stress-Free Networking
So You Want to Be A Showrunner?
Learn the Art of the Quick Project Pitch
How to Get A Mentor: It’s Not as Hard as You Think
Find Your Screenwriter Super Power! Hint: It’s Your Unique Voice
Using Virtual Events to Grow Your Community of Contacts
How to Make Your Film Festival Submission Stand Out
How to Avoid Writer’s Burn Out
GTFU Part Five: Putting it Into Practice
This is the fifth and final article in a series about getting you unstuck and helping you reach your creative goals.
In the first two articles, we discussed time, and introduced some exercises to help you get more clarity on how you're spending your time and why. The third and fourth articles took you inward, helping you to understand some of the ways emotions, particularly fear, can keep creative professionals feeling stuck and inhibit them from doing their best work. But, now that you have the information, what do you do with it? Knowledge without action is essentially meaningless.
This article helps answer those questions.
Rejection Sucks! How to Keep Writing in Spite of It
GTFU, Part Four: Confronting Your Emotional Energy Vampires & Fears
This is the fourth in a series of articles I've written based on a popular workshop I've been teaching for several years. The first two articles in the series were focused on time; the third article focused on the way your emotions, particularly fears about your creative work, can interfere with you achieving your goals. This article takes that exploration one step further, offering a simple but very powerful approach to confronting those fears.
Congrats! You’re Eligible to Join the WGA! Now What?
GTFU, Part Three: Uncovering Your Emotional Energy Vampires & Fears
This is the third in a series of articles based on my most popular workshop. The purpose of this series is to give you powerful tools to help you uncover the things that are getting in the way of your creative and professional goals. In this article, we're going to move from the exterior to the interior, focusing on the way your emotions play a role in, and can get in the way of, you achieving your goals.