Archive - The Thriving Creative

May 2025

How to Be Successfully Unemployed

An interview with Re: Working's Sabina Sulat

May 16 •

Hey Writers! Time for Scribble-Scribble, The Writing Retreat

Do you dream of uninterrupted days where all you have to do is write?

May 7 •

April 2025

The Business of Being a Writer

As I considered the next selection for our Books for Thriving Creatives series, I went back and forth about including the new edition of Jane Friedman’s…

Apr 30 •

Eric Maisel on Choosing Your Life Purposes

A Q&A and Review of our latest Book for Thriving Creatives

Apr 23 •

It's Not Over When It's Over

A Funeral Director Explains How to Keep Your Remains in the Right Hands

Published on Diary of a Lesbian Housewyfe • Apr 12

March 2025

Who Says You Only Get One Life Purpose?

We don’t need to have a laser-focused passion to be thriving creatives.

Mar 26 •

A Chat with Funny Master, Scott Dikkers

The thing I love about Scott Dikkers’ books is that they are filled with actionable advice to get you writing and tools that improve that writing once…

Mar 21 •

February 2025

How Are You Holding Up?

Is it just me or do you feel like the very worst of all of your most stupid corporate bosses has been put in charge of the US?

Feb 27 •

How Learning to Write Funny Improved My Writing

When I began to study humor writing (which, full disclosure, happened after I began writing humorous essays for my Diary of a Lesbian Housewyfe…

Feb 21 •

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