A question that is weighing on my mind lately is how much structure helps or hurts a creative. I was talking with a friend who by all accounts has mad organizational skills, and she runs a filmmaking business. There's a lot of structure in her day that is taken up doing the administrative work that you need to do in order to run a business the right way, and she's very good at that. However, she tells me that she spends so much time doing the admin work and the proposal writing for grants and things, she laments not being able to spend the time actually creating as she would like. For purposes of comparison, I don't have a licensed business, what I do is what I call a hobby on steroids. It could be a business. But I spend so much time in the creative side, I don't spend any time in the promotion side or administrative side. SO, I wold be a polar opposite to my friend, as you can hear. I'm sure that there's a third person out there that promotes like the dickens, but doesn't ha
