by Cali Bird | Dec 8, 2016 | Fame and Success
Should you start to write, paint or learn a musical instrument as you get older? It is so easy to think that once you reach a certain age it is not worth bothering. Literary agents are only interesting in young rising talent. Apart from the Rolling Stones and all...
by Cali Bird | Nov 24, 2016 | Being gentle, Creating with a day job, Food for thought
Your life was going great. You had carved out your creative time and everything was tickety-boo. And then your Mum or Dad got ill, or had a fall, or was rushed to hospital. Everything changed. Your time was not your own anymore. They needed you and you had to...
by Cali Bird | Nov 9, 2016 | Fame and Success, Food for thought
Do you have to be selfish to be creative? Does creativity make you selfish? Picture these two scenarios. Your friends want you to go out tonight, but you want to go home and spend another hour on your painting. They say you are a spoil sport but you just want to get...
by Cali Bird | Oct 27, 2016 | Creating with a day job, Food for thought
Is creativity a curse? Sometimes it can feel like it. You’re creative and that seems to make everything complicated in your life. There are times when you just want to be normal like everyone else. But you’re not normal. You need time to be creative or you go crazy....
by Cali Bird | Oct 12, 2016 | Creating with a day job, Fame and Success, Food for thought
You love making music, or writing or producing paintings or sculptures. However, you have never made any money from it so is it unethical to call yourself an artist? After all a lawyer, an accountant or a credit controller calls themselves this because that is what...
