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5 Tips for Successfully Walking the Creative Road
We’ve probably all heard the famous Robert Frost quote, “Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” The road less traveled, by its very nature, can at times be a lonely road. And yet, it’s also an adventure. Yet you and I have chosen this road for our own individual (read: warped) reasons. We skip happily along some days, and we sit and swat at the flies on other days.
I can say that I came late to this path in life, writing my first screenplay at the age of forty-nine, but I think that the creativity has always been there in one form or another. Never give up on your dreams. I caught my first wisp of the entertainment bug while in business school thirty years ago. Although I traveled the wide path for a while, the desire for this scenic byway was always there, ready to bloom when opportunity presented itself. In my relatively short time along this wandering way, I have picked up a few gems of knowledge.
Lesson one: Always be ready. Always be prepared and preparing at the same time. Learn all you can from those around you, keeping your dream alive as you move through the maze. You are never done learning and you are never “there”. Keep improving no matter how good you think you are. And don’t be afraid to teach to others what you have learned. They…