Sometimes, despite all your best preparations, you get thrown a curveball. It’s whether you swing the bat anyway that separates the amateurs from the pros. I’ve been talking about some of the ways to taking your creative business to a more professional level on my monthly newsletter (if you’re not on my list then sign […]
Examining sustainability and longevity in the actors’ career: professional expectations and labour market conditions (my PhD proposal)
Hello, here’s the most academic looking of my new head shots, which seem like the perfect companion to my PhD proposal. I thought some of you might be interested to know about what I am planning to spend the next 6-8 years of my life studying (am I crazy?!). It’s probably likely to change and […]
What Exactly Do You Need To Thrive?
I met with a friend yesterday and he suggested that I needed a diagnostic tool – a way to know what my readers needed so I could point them to existing entries (there are over 150 posts already here at The Thriving Creative) but also so I can continue to target your needs. But I […]
The Artistic Paradox – Finding Space to Hold Both Faith and Pragmatism
Since my last post where we talked about Karl Marx and getting closer to the means of production, I have been looking for examples of this around me. This morning, while catching up on recorded TV, the above credits flashed up on my screen. I was watching a recent episode of Season Four of Suits and […]
What the heck IS a creative entrepreneur, after all?
I was writing a funding application the other day for my PHD and in my opening sentence I referred to creative entrepreneurs. Andrew challenged me: What exactly do you mean by that? How would you define that? I struggled. Which is funny because I have an MA in Creative Entrepreneurship, I write a blog about […]
Upcoming London Workshops
Dear Creative Entrepreneur For those of you who live in or near London, if you aren’t already aware, I wanted to let you know I will be teaching two further workshops at Red Door Studios (Newham, East Ham) this coming Saturday, January 25th as part of the Words With Edge Festival. This looks to be a great […]
Why the Kaiser Chiefs got Fat and Lazy – and What You Can Learn from Them
So last night I was out for a company meal with the cast of Scrooge. I was chatting with one my colleagues, who has been a reader of this blog (and who has also done his own PhD) and I was saying how my biggest fear is having nothing to say – nothing to say […]
5 Creativity Lessons from the Bronte Sisters
I am currently on tour with a musical version of Dicken’s Christmas Carol. We’ve just completed three weeks in Leeds. One day we had the afternoon free so we jumped in the car to take a road trip to Howarth where the Bronte sisters lived and wrote in the heart of the Yorkshire countryside. Having […]
“Creatives Are Adept At Burying Their Dead”
“Creatives Are Adept at Burying Their Dead” This was a quote from Patrick McKenna, Ingenious Media, at a recent talk at Goldsmiths University Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship on Risk. He was discussing risk, the need to take risk and the outcome of risk. Sometimes (or often) the outcome of risk is failure. What […]
Discussing Risk Doesn’t Mean Avoiding Risk
We’ve been digging into financial management lately, which implies being careful, being thrifty, counting beans. Is this important? Yes, but let’s not allow it to distract us from a basic truth – being both a creative and being an entrepreneur involves taking risks. Don’t think that I am suggesting you shouldn’t take risks. To stop […]
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