Tapping Creativity

'What I learnt from directing the movie Caged is that your movie is only as good as your weakest scene. So you have to fight to make sure that none of the scenes is terribly bad.'
~Aaron Fjellman

Aaron…

How do you make your creativity, something that's not just about yourself? But something that you can involve a broader community in?

I've had to ask myself these questions. Can I find people who are …

"As creatives, the time that we spend is sometimes incredibly fruitful and sometimes not fruitful at all, one of the things that I was able to fall back onto was rhythm. And practice, when you don't …

At the beginning of a creative project, so many of us (and I am super, super guilty of this) end up finding ourselves imagining the project completed. We imagine the accolades. In part because we’ve …

"Sometimes you need things to line up. But when they're not lining up, you have to say, well, what's in my power at this moment that I can do? And I think that's really important for artists, particu…

Reading back on the biographies of luminaries like Goethe, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky, one thing that great thinkers and artists have done is given themselves R&R time. Time to just rest and relax. But …

You gotta choose a creative project to sink your teeth into. And then when you do, you need to start making choices - what sentence to write, what rhyme to cut. And you might add the wrong thing and …

If you have only one idea, and it's the basket you put all of your eggs into, you're actually not an artist, you're not a creative. The song that you wrote three years ago, is three years old. Put it…

Creativity is by definition ‘creating something from nothing’. And historically or mythologically speaking, creators have been gods and goddesses. So by being creators, creatives artists, we are actu…