A Failure Story by Lauren Donnelly I fell in love with acting at an early age. As a child, I was attracted to acting because it promised to make real the imaginary worlds I could enter vicariously through books and
I was drowning in a sea of misconceptions about what an artist was, what an artist did, and who could play a part in the cultural life of our time… “- Marsha Norman Julia Cameron refers to creativity as “spiritual
Carrying I carry this thing around always. Sometimes I try to shake it off, put it under my skin in the recesses where it will sleep in me, not burdening me with the wakefulness that always demands a resolution. A
I’m in Toronto, Ontario taking the four week National Voice Intensive. As of right now – as I am writing this post – I am almost 1 week into the intensive. I feel strange. I made a pact with myself
Success bewilders me. It’s not that I don’t want it. Crave it. Need it. It’s that despite my predilection for creative independence, my reality has twisted so grotesquely that everything appears as if it’s going all… Right. Everything’s alright? I’m
“Just believe in yourself.” I hear this advice a lot. I don’t know what to do with this advice. In her last post, Sam Kamras wrote about graduating from school, and how small she feels in the midst of this
This is the last post I will write as a student. By this time next month, I will have finished my last show and will be waiting for my graduation ceremony. I’m terrified. For the first time, I will be
This month has been special. It has filled my heart with hope for all the possibility that’s still out there. Hey, I may be thirty, but I’m still young. The speakers at Creative Life’s first event were a real inspiration.
I want to explore the process of getting over the hump, because a lot of people seem to be at a hump right now. Everyone takes a different path to get over it, through it, past it… but a lot
Kyle Gest is one of the newest mastermind writers for Creative Life. For his very first post, Kyle answered the questions from the interview series, and got vulnerable fast! Kyle is the voice and talent behind the successful podcast The Lapse. You