The blank page, empty canvas, or uncarved stone will often fill artists with dread. But so may the thought of finishing, showing or even selling their work. Maisel guides the reader, whether an experienced artist or someone just starting out, past the pitfalls that appear in each stage of creation.
Coaching The Artist Within shows people how to become more effective creators by guiding them through 12 self-coaching lessons. Eric Maisel writes each lesson with a novelist's flair, as a narrative complete with examples, exercises, and questions to help readers explore underlying issues that may be keeping them from pursuing their urge to create ...
Creative people will experience depression--that's a given. It's a given because they are regularly confronted by doubts about the meaningfulness of their efforts. Theirs is a kind of depression that does not respond to pharmaceutical treatment. What's required is healing in the realm of meaning. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Maisel teaches ...
One of America's leading experts on the psychological aspects of creativity presents a complete, one-year plan for unleashing artistic talent. Includes two discussions/exercises per week and culminates in a guided project.
Not just another dry, how-to instruction book, "What Would Your Character Do?" is the first interactive guide that encourages writers to get inside their characters' heads as they create them. This fascinating book: provides more than 20 quizzes to help writers analyse their characters' traits; features easy-to-understand psychological summaries ...
The definitive book on overcoming performance anxiety, it is helpful for performers of all types: salespeople, executives, teachers - anyone who must speak in public. It provides practical, step-by-step guidance plus spaces for journaling and interactive exercises. Actors aren't the only ones who get stage fright. Salespeople, teachers, executives ...
Creativity Coach Eric Maisel has worked with thousands of creative types over the years, including writers, musicians, artists, dancers and actors. He knows first-hand the struggles of these people, whether they are amateur or professional, and he's helped them find balance in their lives while pursuing their creative endeavours. This book ...
Eliminate the side effects of poisonous remarks with this antidote for harmful criticism. Everyone knows what it's like to receive criticism. Those haphazard comments from coworkers, family, friends, or even complete strangers are not soon forgotten. Worse still is the unending critical voice of one's own self, picking apart each detail of a ...
According to Eric Maisel, 'atheism' isn't so much a denial of god as it is a way to embrace the vagaries of being human and then to create a life of integrity and meaning without supernatural intervention. "The Atheist's Way" represents an exciting new direction in spirituality, one away from inward looking to a more active participation in the ...
The symbolic home for creative people everywhere, Paris has been inspiration for countless artists and writers. In this dynamic book, well-loved author Eric Maisel gives writers the guidance they need to take a literal or figurative soul-renewing artistic sojourn in the city of light, it: Shares with readers how and why to take a creative visit to ...
This expert's guide through the elements of a nonfiction book proposal is filled with exercises designed to help a writer conceive and create a desirable proposal as well as checklists to keep track of the project's progress.
Visual artists, writers, composers, and performers have chosen among the most difficult careers in our society. Artists must struggle with creative blocks, public criticism, self-doubt on a grand scale, an industry that seems both arbitrary and malicious, and small financial rewards. But now, in "A Life in the Arts," they have the hands-on ...
This is a complete programme for addiction recovery specifically designed for the creative person. The authors show readers how they can use their own innate creative abilities at each stage of the recovery process to secure behaviour change for long-lasting recovery. They also present the particular challenges that self-identified creative people ...
Every writer needs a simpatico environment to be productive, and what better place than that mecca of creativity, San Francisco? The city by the bay has been home to generations of writers, from Rudyard Kipling to Mark Twain to Armistead Maupin. In this lively book, Eric Maisel gives writers the guidance they need to take a literal or figurative ...
In pocket-size and journal-size editions, this sketchbook of inspiring quotes from artists in every field helps readers connect with their own creative process. Includes quotes from Norman Mailer, Picasso, Janice Joplin, Mozart, Georgia O'Keefe, and others.
A powerful, ten-second technique can change stress into calm, strength and a centered approach. The basis of The Ten Second Pause is using a single deep breath as a container for a specific thought. This technique is simple to grasp, simple to use, simple to practice and simple to master. This technique can be used anywhere, anytime, by anyone and ...
To write what they want to write the way they want to write it, most writers need to carve out a psychic space as well as a physical one. In "A Writer's Space", noted creativity expert and bestselling author Dr. Eric Maisel shows readers how to do just that. He takes writers by the hand, and guides them deep into their own creative process, ...
Both a high-functioning journal and an elegant compendium of inspirational quotes, Writers and Artists on Love includes 240 quotations by artists, one for every page, all on the theme of loving the creative process. The authors selections are thought-provoking, insightful and sensitive, sure to resonate with artistic souls, literary types, and ...
Despite our high-tech business environments, much of what we need to accomplish at work depends on good communication with other people. These 20 tips, designed to serve both employee and employer, include how to offer critical feedback, how to understand the messages we receive, how to sort out motivations, how to respond to criticism, how to ...
This self-help guide addresses issues that face writers, including coping with writer's block, rejection and the challenges of self-discipline. Established authors offer advice on writers' conferences, networking, self-promotion, the editorial process and other matters.
This is a high-functioning journal and an elegant compendium of inspirational quotes. There are 240 quotations by artists representing a variety of media painters, composers, writers and performers all on the theme of devotion to creating art. The authors selections are thought-provoking, sensitive, and insightful.
This workbook helps people who appear in the spotlight to successfully overcome performance anxiety. Techniques and exercises are offered by this skilled author-therapist who has long treated artists, actors, musicians, and dancers, along with "non-theatrical" clients.
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