The best advice I can give you is to review every decision I’ve made for the past fifteen years, then do the EXACT opposite. :)
Based on the piece you wrote, I would say that you definitely are on the right track. I was never very organized about the way I did things (I’m still not) and you seem to have a much clearer idea of what you’re doing. I have always just sort of made it up as I’ve gone along.
I normally don’t give much advice (because I’m the LAST person who should be doing so), but since you asked, I have two pieces of advice that I wish I had been given years ago.
- Even when you are slammed, make time to market yourself. Even if it’s just a few hours a week, it will help because when things slow down you will already have been planting seeds.
- Make more time to create things you want to create. Draw this, sculpt that, make a fake movie poster…just be sure to give yourself time to be your own client.
I don’t have any regrets about the way I did things, but I definitely could have made things easier on myself. Hell, if I had taken this advice even just one year ago, I’d be better off than I am now. :)
