Working with a client is a two-way street. They come to you for your expertise and your ideas. Yet many creatives forget that. Many will stop suggesting ideas and concepts, stop pushing back on bad ideas or things they don’t think will work. This doesn’t happen all at once, though. They’ll explain ideas. They’ll show other options. They’ll try to improve the original idea. But when these ideas aren’t actioned or taken on by the client, creatives can feel disheartened. All too

There’s this idea that you can’t call yourself something (Writer, Painter, Singer, etc) if it isn’t your job . For some reason, many of us think that unless we’re being paid for something, we just don’t have the right  to refer to ourselves as someone who does those things. “Yeah I like to write sometimes, but I’m not a writer .” Bullshit. You don't need permission to call yourself a writer. You don't need permission to call yourself a singer. You don't need permission to cal

I can still remember watching my dad make them on the computer. When I was younger – long before the days of TVs that let you pause a live broadcast or watch something on demand – if you wanted to watch something later, you had to record it on a physical VHS. Nowadays, there are YouTube channels that archive almost every show known to man. This wasn’t so back when I was a wee lad. And before we go any further, for anyone below the age of thirty, a VHS was a big tape you’d put

There are going to be days where the ideas flow like water, where your hands can’t keep up with the pace in which your mind is coming up...