Coworking: an example By actor-writer Kate Willoughby As part of my research into coworking for freelances I wanted to get some firsthand experience of an existing coworking event. I therefore signed up for one of KindredHQ’s Jelly events, which took place recently....
BY ACTOR-WRITER KATE WILLOUGHBY Working as a creative freelance often means spending many hours alone – creating. While this can be productive and joyful or at least a necessary (if painful) part of freelancing, too much isolation can have a negative impact on our...
By writer-director and author Brendan Foley Writing a book is a marathon, not a sprint. That makes the difference between the thousand people who think about writing a book and the one that does. Then, out of every thousand who actually do finish a manuscript, there...
BY WRITER-DIRECTOR AND AUTHOR BRENDAN FOLEY (NUJ/WGGB) WWW.FILMFOLEY.COM Writer's block itself is just one ailment in a whole family that is more accurately called Creative Block. Dancers lose their creative spring. Musicians lose their groove and writers extract...
By writer-director and author Brendan Foley (NUJ/WGGB) www.filmfoley.com Like many of you reading this, I have a Facebook page with a smattering of friends and acquaintances. I also have a Twitter account languishing with not a single chirp, tweet or utterance to its...
By Brendan Foley (writer, producer and director working in books, film and TV) One of the biggest battles for people who make their living in the entertainment and media industries is that they get little sympathy from nine-to-fivers as both sides struggle to make...
Search engine optimisation Search engine optimisation, or SEO for short, sounds like a complex science that only technical geeks could understand. Nothing could be further from the truth. Anyone can search engine optimise their own writing and websites by focusing on...
www.why not? Every creative freelance should have a website. This need not cost a fortune or involve paying someone else to build it for you. These days it is relatively simple to build a basic website of your own, using templates other people have designed that you...
