One of those cliches about creative expression is to “Write what you know.” Maybe it can be expanded to “Create from what you know and who you are.” Lena Dunham is the creator, executive producer, and one of the stars of the HBO series “Girls” about four young women living in New York. She bases […]
creative passion
Are you passionate about your creative work making an impact?
Many actors and other artists want their creative work to have meaning and strong impacts on others, and they are often passionate social activists. What can help them do that more fully? Making life and work meaningful is important for many of us, not just artists, but for creators, it can be an especially intense motivation. “I […]
Making Positive Use of Our Pandora’s Box of Emotions
Creative, sensitive and intense people experience a wide range and depth of emotions, and use that wealth of feeling to create art. How can we work with such strong feelings and stay balanced? Actor Gloria Reuben commented about experiencing strong emotions: “The thing I love most about acting is that while I am doing a scene, I am […]
How can you reclaim your creative dreams?
Internal conflicts can get in the way of using our creative passions and abilities more fully. So many experiences shape our motivations and abilities to create. Being more aware of the impacts these experiences have can help us thrive as creative people. Bullying is one example of a traumatic or at least hurtful experience that […]
Lena Dunham on Creating From “The Parts of Me I Find The Most Shameful”
The acclaimed HBO series “Girls” was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding comedy series. I have appreciated the perspectives of creator and star Lena Dunham on being multitalented, and on using many of her “neurotic” qualities (which we all have, after all) for writing about the lives of a group of young women in New York. In […]