by Ed Bell | Sep 21, 2015 | The Creative Habit
I don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions. I think they’re a lame reason for spot self-improvement when you could be self-improving all year round. Tell me that’s beside the point. I don’t care. Anyway, 2015 was an exception. January...
by Ed Bell | Sep 9, 2015 | Building a Career
Today’s article is brought to you by a warm smile, a love of your fellow artist, and our industry’s favorite N-word: Networking. Let’s pretend for a moment that you’re the most skilled artist around. Let’s suppose your work has the power...
by Ed Bell | Aug 16, 2015 | Building a Career, Inspiration
If you’re like many people today, you might like to think anything can be done in just a few, easy, Google-able steps. And you wouldn’t be totally wrong: there’s a quickest, most efficient route to accomplishing anything. But you’re barking up...
by Ed Bell | Aug 12, 2015 | Music Tools
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. E. Y. HARBURG Music is the most abstract of the arts. It affects us not on an intellectual, rational level but on a deep, instinctual level. It washes over us and...
by Ed Bell | Aug 10, 2015 | Inspiration, The Creative Habit
More than once in my life, I’ve been told I’m a sensitive person. And I don’t disagree with that assessment. Though for a long time I did what I could to stop my sensitivity being a problem. I was conscious of it, and I downplayed it. I thought it...
