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Category: Your creative work

  • Note: Summoning the muse

    By Evan Griffith

    I was having a hard time getting through to successful artists. I would send my dutiful email detailing at length why they should exhibit at [...]

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  • Wanted: Art maniacs

    By Evan Griffith

    Meet Paul Tamanian -- or The Tamaniac as he's been dubbed. They say Don't judge a book by its cover. But in this case you [...]

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  • The moment you summon the courage to disappoint nearly everyone in your life

    By Evan Griffith

    "I found myself at one of life’s crossroads, the “safe” path leading in one direction, uncertainty—and possibility—in the other. Eventually I came to realize that [...]

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  • If you’ve got a hint of an artist in you, now is your time

    By Evan Griffith

    In this time of coronavirus creators have a choice. They can do what my wife and I have done -- check news and feeds like [...]

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  • It’s mine until it’s yours

    By Evan Griffith

    In a conversation with chef and woodworker Dave Beck, he described his mantra: It's mine until it's yours. Meaning -- While he's creating a piece [...]

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  • The best writing advice I’ve not been able to follow

    By Evan Griffith

    In Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott suggests beginning writers should quickly get their ideas rough and messy onto the page. In fact she advocates they [...]

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  • What is entrepreneurial?

    By Evan Griffith

    A good friend asked me this the other day: What makes you entrepeneurial? First the easy answers came to mind: My Dad started his own [...]

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  • Forget finding your calling, follow what’s surfacing

    By Evan Griffith

    Too many of us crave a mythical calling when all we really need is to pay attention to what is emerging. And get more curious [...]

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  • Note: Surprise yourself

    By Evan Griffith

    Robert Frost once said: "No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." Isn't this true of all art forms? I watch my wife [...]

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  • 10. Talk, not digital

    By Evan Griffith

    In today's world you often work in cascading explosions of micro-urgencies. You look up, you see the time, the afternoon has passed in quick bursts [...]

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