COMPOSING A LIVING: A MUSIC CREATOR'S GUIDE TO MONEY, RELATIONSHIPS, AND BUSINESS
How do composers build sustainable careers, ensuring their work aligns with their financial goals and personal well-being? Composing a Living is a practical and empowering guide for composers navigating the intersection of music, money, and business.
Drawing on extensive industry experience and twenty-eight interviews with successful composers across genres, Brandon Elliott and Dale Trumbore offer comprehensive guidance on pricing work, negotiating contracts, understanding copyright, hiring a creative team, and diversifying income. This book demystifies financial strategies, legal essentials, and entrepreneurial thinking, equipping music creators with helpful tools to take control of their careers.
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STAYING COMPOSED: OVERCOMING ANXIETY AND SELF-DOUBT WITHIN A CREATIVE LIFE
"A treasure trove of practical strategies for moving your artistic career forward."
—Angela Myles Beeching, author of Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music
All artists have doubts and anxieties. What are yours? Managing procrastination, anxiety, and creative blocks? Knowing how to trust your work? Dealing with other people? Balancing the need to push through to the end of a work while keeping your health and sanity? Handling rejection and your own success?
Dale Trumbore has faced each of these issues, and Staying Composed: Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life is her answer. With humor and understanding, Trumbore breaks down each obstacle to a creative career and presents workable strategies for a long-range, manageable, and meaningful life in the arts.
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