Key Elements in Creative Success: Passion, Support, Structure, Delivery

While it's been eons since my last post, we've been super busy over here in the land where creativity meets the market.  Nimble Collective continues to soar, releasing the 2nd to the last of its pilot films, and positioning for the long haul to deliver its animation in the cloud platform.  Company confidentiality prohibits me from writing about too many of our internal learning experiences, but the work is rich with lessons across a wide variety of creative and business scenarios.  Stay tuned for those articles when the time is right.

In news closer to home we've been head's down on a new film company, to be announced July 1.  Our film company produces live action short and long form stories and documentaries from around the globe and will support new artists as well as established filmmakers who have a story to tell from their hearts.  Submission applications for stories will be announced in September with principal shooting planned for early 2018.

Today we're thinking about success, how to imagine it, how to visualize it, how to describe it, how to share it and how to empower oneself and others to engage in the sometimes exhausting process of creating it.  The temptation to stare at the news is tremendous these days, but making the effort, even at the end of a long and tiring day, to structure time to work towards one's personal goals is vital.

Success in a creative endeavor typically begins with passion.

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Artistic or creative passion is that large or small emotion that quite frankly, never goes away, if we're lucky.  It often arrives without invitation or warning, like inspiration, and creates a welcome, or sometimes unwelcome, pressure for a creative person to respond. Creative passion can be a welcome diversion from a monotonous daily routine, or a destructive pesky habit of distraction, leading us into dark backroad alleys and confusing life choices.  

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Finding the right support structure for the successful expression of passionate inspiration can be a life long search.  One needs understanding, acceptance, feedback, infrastructure, pencils, pen, paper, cameras, books, tools, reviews, editorial, you name it - the list is long - and expensive.

Reaching towards artistic expression starts with the thought, feeling or simple intuition that one has something to say, something to do, something to be.  Then comes a long and sometimes arduous journey to bring together the elements to support a wholesome and experiential expression.  On the journey it's important to be awake and aware - and not distracted by either a mismatched offer of help, or internal pulls to give up.  Trusted and vetted structure around the creative are key.

Next up is a deeper discussion of what it means to deliver on a creative vision. DELIVERY.  What does it mean to pick a goal, move towards it, express it and then create and deliver it to market.  How does the Creative position him or herself in the market, how is artistic output priced, how do we respond and re-align after market acceptance or rejection?

This and more in this evening's post.