Creative Careers

This is an excerpt from the book Creative Writing Career: Becoming a Writer of Movies, Video Games, and Books. This section comprises the entire section on book writing (fiction and non-fiction), to include author interviews, and is Part Six of the book.

Ally Archer knows what it feels like to have incurable wanderlust (also known as “the travel bug”). After leaving her 9-5 job, she was ready to do anything to make her travel dreams a reality. She found a way to hack the system by asking herself: “Instead of saving up to travel for two weeks per year, how can I find a way to make money while I travel throughout the year?” This led her to start a simple online freelance business that grew significantly over time.

Are you an author or creative preparing for success? Do you want to learn to speak effectively in front of an audience? All successful creatives have to speak and present in public, whether that's at a festival, on a podcast or radio show, or as part of earning multiple streams of income. But you don’t have to be like Tony Robbins, bouncing around on stage with a booming voice and larger than life personality. You just have to be you and tell your story in your own way.

This is an excerpt from the book Creative Writing Career: Becoming a Writer of Movies, Video Games, and Books. This section comprises the entire section on video game writing, to include video game writer interviews, and is Part Five of the book.

Are you a creative person? An artist, cook, crafter, quilter, designer, web developer, or musician? Have you ever wished that you could quit your 9-5 job and work in your passion full time? Well, it's possible. In the past few years more and more people have been trying their hand at making a business out of their creative talent. But it is not as easy as it seems. Just because you can design a logo, or play a guitar, doesn't mean you can run a business.

悲観的で心配性なまじめ人間でも大丈夫！『TAROMAN』のクリエイターが教える“後ろ向きに前進する”ための仕事術。

The rule book has changed. You attend a business networking event and meet Jack. You buy him coffee to foster a relationship. Point scored. Jack has the potential to be your new customer and even leads you to new business. Feeling pretty good, you go to another function. You're impressed with the influential speaker at the event. She walks off stage to a lineup of people who want to meet her. You figure, what the heck? I'll invite her for a coffee, too. Wrong. Quite honestly, you could be pushing away an influential connection without knowing it.

When we're kids, our parents tell us that being creative is fun, fun, fun. But when you decide to turn art into your career, whether that's painting, writing, drawing, or sculpting Edgar Allan Poe out of earthworms, that's when things get tough. In this insightful and heartfelt guide, artist and speaker Phil Hansen shares his hard-won wisdom from the front lines of life as a professional creative. Hansen provides advice for the difficult moments - the slumps, the creative blocks, the times when something you love doesn't resonate with the world - and gives you the pep talk you need....

Do you ever sense that you're not using your mind to its fullest potential? Being "stuck" means your brain is repeating the same neurological firing patterns again and again. It happens in business, relationships, personal goals, and mental health, over and over.

This book uniquely identifies the five key emotions that prevent clients from reaching their full creative potential and provides coaches tools to help them overcome them, boosting their productivity as well as their ability to complete and promote their work and personal development. Accessible and personable, Rahti Gorfien interweaves stories from her personal life and private practice to alleviate the burden of blockages creatives generated by their own divergent thinking, unconscious conditioning, and memory.

Although every book ever written to train you to be a top sales professional covers much of what is in this book, most bombard you with endless examples, methodology, and psychological information most salespeople will never master. This book reveals the five most important words in sales; how to get past the gatekeeper; how to avoid "say no" questions; how to be included in the decision-making process; all without high pressure or transparent tricks and ploys.

「営業現場の生産性向上」の最適解はAIサポート。「営業×AI」の新時代が到来！「企業分析」「リストアップ」「ターゲティング」「提案資料作成」「商談の相談役」etc

You have heard it, "cash is king". I'm going to tell you this is not accurate. Margin is king. There is not a durable source of cash without margin. Unless from an outside source, cash in your business primarily comes from the margin. We can sell assets to generate cash. However, if you sell all your business assets, you likely don't have a business remaining.

In Creative Conflict, negotiation experts Bill Sanders and Frank Mobus use a dynamic, dialectical approach to show how negotiations are driven by competition and cooperation at the same time. They believe that when we tiptoe around conflict, we negotiate in a halfhearted way that limits our results. By contrast, creative negotiators probe and push until they hit a wall of disagreement, and then they figure out how to get past it.

東大卒、Ｚ世代ホテルプロデューサーが放つ初の本！あらゆるスモールビジネスを志す人にオススメしたい！――深津貴之（インタラクション・デザイナー）

Ever wondered where big breakthrough ideas come from? How do innovators manage to spot the opportunities for industry revolution that everyone else seems to miss? Contrary to popular belief, innovation is not some mystical art that's forbidden to mere mortals. The Four Lenses of Innovation thoroughly debunks this pervasive myth by delivering what we've long been hoping for: the news that innovation is systematic, it's methodical, and we can all achieve it.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Gândirea eficientă reprezintă cheia succesului în toate domeniile de activitate. Orice întârziere și orice ezitare pot însemna diferența dintre reușită și eșec. De la elevii de liceu la președinții unor mari companii, milioane de oameni din întreaga lume folosesc de peste trei decenii o metodă inedită de gândire creativă – metoda celor șase pălării gânditoare. Acest amuzant joc de roluri ne propune să împărțim felul în care gândim în șase categorii – fiecare simbolizată de o pălărie de altă culoare.

This book can change your life. We all have the software to be creative, but many of us have been shamed or criticized, and our creative sparks are smoldering beneath layers of fear and lack of confidence. Gail McMeekin's book blasts through that and gets you excited again about your potential. McMeekin interviews 31 of today's most successful women, integrating their insights with her own proven success strategies to help you get onto the road to success.

Marty Strong's direct and compelling message is focused on business, but in truth, its leadership tenets are agnostic as to industry, marketplace, private, or public setting. This is not a textbook. It is a personal conversation between a high-performance business leader and professionals searching for actionable insights that deliver results. Be Nimble provides mentorship, tips, tools, and useful examples to help drive home its valuable leadership insights. Marty Strong has an accomplished leadership career spanning four decades.

「オリエンは信じない」「顧客に憑依する」「タグライン、コンセプトワードを決める」「プレゼンはしない」　　　他日本に『角ハイボール』ブームを巻き起こし、