Choosing Yourself Episode 19: The Importance of Choosing Yourself In today’s Self-made Creative podcast episode, I explore what it means to Creatives to choose and be chosen. Someone might choose to purchase your art. You might receive notice on social media. Whichever occurs, it feeds creatives to communicate in this way. Yet, sometimes, they don’t…
Yesterday, when I promised to write about this topic, I thought I would be rarin’ to go. I’m amazed how insidious that self-doubt can be. I’ll do anything to avoid getting my butt in the seat and doing the work. I’ll walk the dog, I’ll meditate (again). I’ll drink more water. By themselves, these things…
Yesterday, I facilitated my “Present Out Loud” workshop at Balticon (the Maryland Regional Science Fiction/Fantasy convention). The workshop is on how to present/read your work at bookstore events, interviews, audio narrations, and workshops. We worked on breath technique, voicing, characterization, and how to differentiate your narrator from your characters and their dialogue. But mostly, we…