I wear many hats as an artist.
In selecting my piece this week I have been going over poetry, music, comedy, and rarefied gems that have been seldom heard.
Maybe there is a way to do all the things, while still having a niche that’s successful.
“Having a Niche, means others outside of your expertise come looking for you.”
-Bryan N.
I’ve got a lot to give.
I want to perform on stage
I want to write
I want to record.
And I’m also down to coach, produce, and collaborate.
When I go to a function and put someone's contact in my device, I email them the next day and there could be 5 different services I’m offering.
When I sit myself down for creative time I have to ask myself:
What kind of art do I want to do?
We have this kind of burden as artists, we have time but
How do we want to spend it? What do we want to do?
So much of my day I am looking for work, manufacturing my own opportunity
PRODUCING My own gigs out of nothingness.
“Instead of asking what you can get from this person,
ASK what you can GIVE.” -Dean G.
I can give my voice, I can give my writing ability, I can give my ideas, my strategy, and my coaching in making ideas into reality. I have a million ideas a day,
Sometimes I stay up half the night entertaining my own thoughts, re-scripting monologues that have yet to be spoken.
My Ideas this week:
Trade Workshops for Workspace and Advertising.
(The carbonation just made a sustained noise of approval)
I want to do my workshop with the staff of KQED, they had me as a speaker this year, and I’ve been pitching them ways to work with them. My workshop is about having creative space without our digital devices called: UNPLUG.
Maybe you have a company that this could work for…
Being in front of people is the payment when it comes to future engagements. Stage time is how you build your following to other shows. -J. Dubs (speaking to myself).
Another pitch I’m working on is I would like to build out an hour of storytelling to be filmed on TV. I recently did a storytelling in Mill Vally for 300 people, something of that size works for the moments of laughter. I would use it as my digital calling card to get other gigs as a speaker and performer.
During this performance, I am gearing up to put some of these stories on the page. I’ve been working on this for a long time, and this weekly post is helping me get it out in baby steps.
A book of these published essays and stories on 10/10 of next year, and a show to be filmed as my “special” on 11/17 next year.
Book…show…. I’ve got work to do, but not without collaborators and advocates like those on this list. With a lot of strategy and more drive and ambition for a life in the arts than I’ve had for a while.
Some of my process is writing through speaking. I have done this by editing and transcribing interviews I’ve given. Next week I will have a sample of this for your disposal. Trying all the angels.
“There are no ‘off’ hours” - Uncle John (Esteemed Subscriber)
I see MAD ONE as a collection of different styles highlighting “Creativity as Practice for Mental Health” and I continue to write weekly to create this stream of ideas, 2-4 pages at a time with an audio offering
As my gift of goodies to offer my subscribers, I will do a separate weekly post just for my subscribers, it will include a new series I’ve been workshopping this year called: MANologue. One-minute snippets of narrative told on location from my travels and outings, with the live sound effects of the area as “location-based narratives”. Everyone will get it on Thursday for a sample of what you can get as a subscriber. Will also come with some music as a mix.
I need to build and the only way I can do that is to get in front of people IRL, Digitally, and with word of mouth. I am putting on all my hats with this weekly content creation goal: Writer, Speaker, Performer, Producer. If you know of an opportunity or are called to be an advocate:
“The word ‘content’, it's like a tech-ified word for a word that has already existed in that use for thousands of years: ART!” -Justine Lucas
I do everything there is to do with my business, but to scale you need to hire people that can take you to the next level.
I am channeling my 8 side (Enneagram Talk, I’m a 9) and going into action. I am my own boss, and I am ready to lift off. This free write is taking me there. I bought a new journal. I have co-coaching sessions lined up. I am going to root down into a workspace, and I am going to record every week. Releasing my thoughts, my music, my humor into into the world. I’m going to get it out there. I am going to build a following by hook or by crook, I am going to build this memo of many-o-grams and “send it out to the mothership.” -Kid B. Thank You. I love you. Keep Rocking in a free world. And keep freely rocking. One One One. Till I’m over and done.
This week I am trying something. I wrote a manifesto with a separate piece of fun audio that has never been released before, of extemporaneous spoken word. “So Smoothie '' reminds us to take joy in the small things that bring us pleasure like avocado smoothies.
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