Katharine Sise - Creative Girl: The Ultimate Guide for Turning Talent and Creativity Into a Real Career

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To Dad, Mom, Meghan, Jack, and Brian. Thank you for supporting my creativity always.

Introduction

Youre so creative.

Youve heard this over and over again throughout your life. Your grandmother enthused over your fashion-forward paper doll collection, Youre so creative. What a wonderful gift! A few years later your second grade teacher, Mrs. Darbyshire, cooed, These watercolors are exquisite. What a creative girl you are. Then there was that ninth grade English teacher with the glass eye who called your parentsbarely able to keep the emotion out of her voiceand told them shed never read such promising writing from a fourteen-year-old. Of course, your parents nodded knowingly. Theyve heard this repeatedly, from those watercolors in second grade to your fifth grade performance as Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie (and, my God, how did you capture the desperation and longing of a thirty-year-old woman at age eleven?)

Welcome to your creativity. Youve always had it, but now the real world is calling and its time to make itor break it.

When people asked me during college what I wanted to do for a living, I answered, I want to act and write. This made well-meaning people so nervous that they couldnt help but ask about my back-up plan, as if my career was a birth control method destined to fail. I appreciate practicality as much as the next girl, but for me, the only work Ive ever wanted to do was creative. Even my back-up plans were creative. After I graduated from the University of Notre Dame, I arrived in New York City with my theater degree, $239 and incredibly high hopes. I wrote short stories in the morning, auditioned in the afternoon and bartended at Tavern on the Green on the weekends. After dropping a rare and very expensive bottle of champagne on my way to deliver it to Robert De Niros table, I realized I needed a way to fund my creative aspirations that didnt involve balancing a tray full of cocktails. So I announced my backup plan to my family and friends at my grandfathers eightieth birthday party. It went something like this:

Aunt Posie: Would anyone like more cake?

Me: Yes, please.

Grandpa: So, what are you doing for work these days?

Me: Ive decided to support my acting habit by designing jewelry.

The reaction to this plan was like Id said I wanted to breed unicorns. Fair enough, really: I didnt have any design experience. But I ignored the naysayers, taught myself how to make jewelry, and launched my line in 2004. Before I knew it, major fashion magazines were covering my work and the Olsen twins were strolling around L.A. clutching Starbucks cups and wearing my jewelry. I capitalized on my previous acting training, got an agent, and started appearing on TV as a style expert, eventually co-hosting a television show on The Home Shopping Network. By the time I was in my mid-twenties, I was able to support myself creatively. I havent looked back since.

Of course, I made a zillion mistakes along the way. The first time a magazine editor asked for images of my work, I put the jewelry on a photocopier and sent her color copies instead of taking digital pictures (I couldnt afford a camera). I mixed up a jewelry sample I designed for Target, and the piece that appeared on their website ended up being different from the one customers actually received. A necklace I designed broke ON AIR while I was chatting with the ladies from The View. While I was talking about my jewelry, it fell from my neck to my lap because I didnt spend enough time getting the clasp right. That glorious moment is preserved, forever, on a DVD at my parents house.

Trust me, there are plenty more where those came from. Everything I learned from my mistakesnot only about sturdy clasps, but the actual business and career lessonsis in this book, along with the guidance I wish Id had then. I interviewed other creative professionals about everything they wished theyd known, too. I made it my goal to write the book my creative colleagues and I needed when we embarked on our careers.

A creative career path is winding and very different from a traditional one. This book will support you from the first moments of assessing your talent to building a financially solvent livelihood. Together, well debunk the starving artist clich and become successful, self-supported artists by focusing on the financial, emotional, and spiritual fulfillment attainable in a creative life. Age doesnt matter here; youll find guidance whether youre a college student wondering what in the world to do after graduation, a thirtysomething stay-at-home mom, or a retiree who wants to launch an interior decorating empire. This guide gives you a birds-eye view of how to achieve the happiest creative life possible.

While youre reading, keep your mind open to the myriad options for bringing home the bacon with your creativity. You may decide to work at a creative company, freelance, or open your own business. Many of you will follow the order laid out in these pages; youll start at a creative company and transition to freelance or a small business entrepreneurship. Some of you may work in the opposite directionyoull start off on your own and segue into an exciting creative career with the company of your dreams.

Youll get the real story from creative girls (CGs) living life in the creative trenches. Their careers range from lipstick moguls to voice-over actors, and their positions range from interns to full-blown creative superstars. Youll discover a resounding message in each anecdote and every chapter: you can do this. You can make a career with your creativity, you can turn what inspires you into what pays your bills, and you can grin like the cat that swallowed the canary every time someone asks you what you do for a living.

The book youre holding is laid out in two parts: Part One is a welcome-to-your-creativity party where well figure out exactly what the heck you want to do. Youll evaluate your talent and your current job situation. If your job stinks, well talk about strategies for making it work before taking the leap to full-time creative girl. Because as tempting as it is to storm out of your non-creative job shouting, Next time youll see me, Ill be holding an Oscar! the truth is, you want to be financially savvy and strategic about your next move.

Part Two is your roadmap for getting where you want to go. Once youre there, well talk about finding emotional, spiritual, and financial fulfillment. To reach career nirvana, you have to take into account your day-to-day happiness and wellbeing. That means making money a priority, too. Financial freedom plus emotional freedom is freedom, and that freedom allows each creative girl the healthiest space possible to peacefully create.

Youll find numerous ideas for creating an inspired career that provides you with the ultimate in creative fulfillment. Bring your most idealistic self and approach the material with healthy curiosity. Ill discuss hundreds of practical career strategies, so the realist in you will be satisfied, but give yourself room to dream big. Resist the urge to judge your ideas. If youre not going to make great plans for yourself, then who is?

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