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We’re moving! Make sure you can still find us
So The Thriving Creative is on the move. Yes, a new website is being designed as we speak and we hope to move over to this new site within the next week or two. It might be topsy turvy for a couple of...
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Think Your Art Sucks?
(If you’ve received this in your email, please click here to ensure you still receive emails when I switch over providers.*) *I am switching this site from WordPress to Rainmaker in the coming weeks,...
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How many drama graduates does it take to change a lightbulb?
Before we get onto today’s post, important announcement: Attention WordPress followers If you receive this notice in your email, at some point in the past you have signed up to receive blog updates by...
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Is a degree in art (or drama or music or fashion etc) worth it?
This is just one study, and only of the United States, but it presents a fairly clear picture that there is no direct correlation between a degree in an art subject and working as a practicing artist....
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Illegitimi non carborundum
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” It seems like an apt way to kick off this post. There are three incidents/factoids floating around in my head as I sit to write this. 1. My agent dropped me...
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Is your ‘to-do’ list threatening to do you in?
I grew up in the Canadian Prairies, in the 1970’s, so this might be ‘of an era’ but I distinctly remember a regular event at Beavers, Cub Scouts, Church picnics and School sports days was a race...
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Will You Join Us at the Marketing Bootcamp for Writers?
It’s just a couple of days until the Marketing Bootcamp for Writers takes place. I will be working with best-selling author A. L. Michael (who’s just putting finishing touches on her new book…) for a...
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How Many Books Could You Sell by Christmas?
Whether you’re able to attend our London workshop or not, I want you think about what you could achieve by Christmas? How many books could you sell? How many chapters could you write? How many...
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5 Reasons to come to our Marketing for Writers Workshop
Originally posted on A. L. Michael:People are always trying to sell you something, right? And I don’t like doing that. I’m running a workshop in collaboration with Steven Sparling that’s focused on...
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Books Don’t Sell Themselves (or 5 Ways to Get Your Books Into Readers’ Hands)
With nearly 150,000 new books published per year in the UK there is a flood of new titles clamouring for attention all the time. And that’s before we get to all the titles that are self-published....
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Julian Clary, Buggery, and Finding Your Purpose
Hello, I’m back from a fantastic holiday in South Africa (where I enjoyed both the beauty and food/wine of Cape Town and the amazing animals on Safari in Sabi Sands) and I’m raring to go into this...
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Interview with best-selling author A.L. Michaels
A.L. Michaels (or Andi) is a twenty-something writer from London, who I met when we both did our MA in Creative Entrepreneurship together at the University of East Anglia. Since we graduated, she’s had...
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Interview with Author J.D. Winthrop
My guest for today’s interview is author J.D. Winthrop, whose first novel Dick Sirius and the Land of the Dead is available in Kindle and Hardcopy format from Amazon.co.uk. J.D. Winthrop (or James as I...
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Interview Series – Film Producer Patrick Sammon – The Power of Perseverance
Film producer Patrick Sammon joins me for the first of the Thriving Creative interview series. Patrick is the Executive Producer of Codebreaker, the Alan Turing film, which I was fortunate enough to...
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Day 31 – The End. Congratulations!
The End. Congratulations! Thank you for spending the last 31 days with me here as part of the July Challenge at the Thriving Creative. We’ve covered a lot of material. It might take time for you to...
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Day 30 – Enjoy Your Career
Enjoy Your Career Over the last month we’ve covered a lot of information and best practices. It can be overwhelming. That’s not my intention. It takes time to build up a solid foundation. So be...
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Day 29 – Build a Team
Build a Team John Dunne famously said: No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. I think over the last 29 days you’ve got an idea of some of the...
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Day 28 – Portfolio Career
Portfolio Career There are many advantages to having multiple strands to your career – it allows you to use multiple skills/strengths and it also helps to have multiple income streams. If one income...
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