Genre: Archive

by Erol Oz The melody. The hook. This is what makes or breaks your song. So how do we make sure we knock it out of the park? Some people… Read More

We hear a lot these days of creating “cultures” in institutions and systems. By culture, in this new sense, we seem to mean something like the people in the place, how the people in the place interact, how the place (the building, the hours, the rules) affect the former two, the people and the acting… Read More

Failure? By Steven Kenny Well, things don’t always go according to plan. Last November I was contacted by a potential client in Asia who expressed interest in buying a painting…. Read More

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your pencils….. By Lea Umberger If you are following along from the past posts of Let Me Introduce Myself and First, Comes the Research , you… Read More

FOUNDATIONS By Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse Too often we take foundations for granted.  Oh, not again.  Can’t I skip that.  I think of when I was taking singing lessons… Read More

Googling descriptions for fictional writing leads to superficial writing. … Read More

by Erol Ozsever Every songwriter seems to have a knack for writing the music or writing the lyrics, unless you are one of the gifted few who can do both… Read More

My Eyes are Hungry. By Steven Kenny As a docent for the Dali Museum I would visit there at least once a week. I never tired of returning again and… Read More