Empathy is the ability to understand the emotions and feelings of another person. It’s the ability to not just understand that someone has a problem, but it’s the ability to actually inhabit the other person’s
There are always two sides to every story, especially when you work in the creative world. There’s the gritty, unfiltered behind-the-scenes back-and-forth that drives everything forward, and there’s the glossy, front-of-house show, which is the result
I think a lot of new freelancers feel if they’re not available 24/7 clients won’t hire them, their paychecks will disappear, and everything will fail and the world will end. The truth of the matter is you
The short version is simply: start with an idea, and then do everything you can with the resources you have to make it into a reality. The long version, which is the one I get asked most
A lot of people assume I chose to be a freelancer. The truth isn’t quite as glamorous, and I’ve had to make ends meet by working hard and keeping the hustle alive. When I graduated
I wrote my first 50,000 word novel in 7th grade. I had an actively updated, in-depth LiveJournal for 8 years. My undergraduate degree is in Marketing Communications and Creative Writing and I wrote a collection
Years of living in Italy gave me a taste for bitter coffee. Black as night, when there’s just a bit of froth it looks like tiny galaxies are floating in your cup. It has full
I never wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer. I had visions of becoming an architect. And I say “visions” in particular because I knew exactly what I would be wearing, how my office
