When I tell people what I do, often their eyes glaze over. It’s always been difficult to explain how I have juggled all my projects throughout the years. Because I have so many varied interests as a writer, an actor, a playwright, radio producer, essayist, and multimedia artist, I have worn a great many hats in my work. Add to that the roles of grantwriter, marketer and bookkeeper, then no wonder it’s hard to share my “profession” with people I meet.
Yet I’ve made a living for 25 years on funding my passions for creating multicultural artist works.
An independent artist is a walking talking store of potential products waiting to be created. I can tell you how to leverage all your talents into a a paying project but first, I ask you, do you know what you want to do?
What are your talents? What do you feel passionately about that you would dedicate a portion of your life (and sometimes your sanity) to making a lifestyle of it?
For me “funding my bliss” isn’t a 9-5 five day a week job. I don’t even consider it a job. It’s my lifestyle, my calling and my passion. It requires creativity and planning to match your passions, your talent with a certain business sense in order to fund it.
So what is it you really want to do?
(Coming Up: Some examples of how I funded projects)
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Funding Your Bliss 
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