Typecasting Composers

Typecasting Composers Typecasting happens quite quickly and is a very annoying situation for most composers or practically any creative person. Once you have a notable success in a genre or in a job, probably most follow-up jobs will be more or less of the same kind...

Writer’s Block

Writer’s Block Writer’s block is something that is extremely annoying especially when you are under heavy deadline pressure. At certain moments, if you let yourself being dragged down by this, it can even cause pure despair. Whenever you suffer from writer’s...

Career Dependency on Someone Else

Career Dependency on Someone Else Don’t make your own career depending solely on someone else’s career. Don’t feel like you have your foot firmly on the ladder just because you have a great working relationship with one director/company who’ll definitely hire you for...

Strategically Rejecting Jobs

Strategically Rejecting Jobs As soon as you can financially afford it, start rejecting jobs that don’t fit into your personal profile and that you wouldn’t enjoy at all and just do them for the money or jobs that are underpaid. This will have several effects: creative...

Working at Home

Working at Home Working at home by your own time schedules can in theory be a very nice way of working but can in reality cause quite a bit of problems. Quite a few composers suffer from a lack of concentration, being constantly distracted and not really being able to...