by Avery White | Sep 26, 2016 | Training
Today’s post is by Andre Jackson. Andre is an entrepreneur who recently made the jump from his corporate job to running his own custom woodwork and photography business. I was blessed to catch up to him right as he was making the transition between the two and...
by Avery White | Aug 30, 2016 | Challenges
“and when I say dope, I ain’t talking ’bout smokin, I’m talkin ’bout music that has an emotion” – NF I love rap. It’s music that bends language to its will and weaponizes poetry across the landscape of alliteration and rhyme. What makes...
by Avery White | Aug 23, 2016 | Spotlight
Banter. It’s quick. It’s clean. And it’s often followed up by a much longer sentence full of intellectual superiority. This type of dialogue is wonderful to listen to, hard to write, but rewarding when it translates. Let’s look at an example from Lauren Graham and...
by Avery White | Aug 16, 2016 | Challenges
Last week I talked about creative anxiety and how it’s mitigated by shifting our focus to the process instead of the outcome (click here if you missed it). This week, I want to continue that theme of process, and tie another idea to it in the form of a challenge. Our...
by Avery White | Aug 9, 2016 | Training
Let’s go on a quest. We begin at aholyexperience.com (Ann Voskamp’s site – aka my favorite author-who-just-announced-a-new-book!) where I read this: Be entirely engaged in the process of your work, and be entirely disengaged in the outcome of your work. –...