If you work on your own – in your office or studio, or your bedroom or at your kitchen table – it can feel like no one is watching. So it doesn’t matter whether you show up. If you skipped a day on …
Taking Deep Work Online with Laura Davis
When lockdown cancelled her in-person writing retreats, bestselling author Laura Davis faced a choice: let her teaching career stall or reinvent it online. Laura, famed for The Courage to Heal and …
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Sometimes You Have to Grind the Work Out
A few months ago I was listening to the DavidBowie: AlbumtoAlbum podcast, a terrific show about Bowie hosted by Arsalan Mohammed. In Season 3 episode 11 Arsalan spoke to Donny McCaslin, the leader of …
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Work on Multifaceted Projects
Last week I suggested that if you’re serious about achieving your creative ambitions, you need to think in terms of projects, not tasks. Because if you get up every morning and ask yourself ‘What …
Parenting for Creatives with Kay Lock Kolp
Lockdown threw parents into a frenzy of juggling childcare, homeschooling and work – with creativity often sidelined. Kay Lock Kolp shows how even in crisis you can nurture your artistic spark …
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Focus on Projects, Not Tasks
When we think of productivity we typically think about tasks and to-do lists, working habits and routines. We focus on how to make the most of our time on a daily or at most a weekly basis. All of …
Rebooting Global Filming with Hometeam
The world of film and TV production ground to a halt in early 2020, leaving studios, agencies and freelancers stranded by travel bans and lockdowns. Hometeam Productions turned that crisis into …
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How to Deal with Rejection as an Artist
A lot of creative professions involve submitting work to gatekeepers of various kinds: agents, editors, publishers, gallerists, funders, producers, studios and competition judges and so on. Yes, the …
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Lockdown Series: Windows on a Changed World with Earl Abrahams
Earl Abrahams is a Johannesburg-based lens-based artist whose films and photographs animate the city’s streets until lockdown confined him to his apartment block. Under strict restrictions he …
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