Neil Gaiman’s Keynote Address in 2012 to the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, remains one of the most inspiring speeches to young creative minds in recent years. This excerpt is meant to keep you creating your art, whatever it may be, on good days and the bad days too. Refer back here whenever you… Continue reading A Note from Neil Gaiman
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart… Continue reading Make Good Art — by Neil Gaiman
“Writer’s cannibalize everything they are.” Neil Gaiman has it right. We cannibalize our dreams, our memories and our emotions, he says, and eventually, our words become stories. For Gaiman, critically-acclaimed author of American Gods and The Sandman, to name a few, the pieces of himself he digs deep into become works of fiction, children’s stories,… Continue reading Neil Gaiman on the Importance of Storytelling
Here is a roundup of some of the creative projects I have worked on to date (as of 2013), including music, marketing, and literary publications. I have self-published a music magazine, a chapbook of poetry, and CDs and merch for two bands, for which I was also the singer and songwriter. Check out the… Continue reading Music, Marketing and Madness: Original Projects (Ongoing and Past)
The Art of Storytelling by Leslie I. Benson 