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"Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, [this book] provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices that keep these creative entrepreneurs on track. With Q&As, insider tips, and DIYs from each maker, these pages offer guidance and encouragement to artists just starting their careers and to professionals looking to take their creative business to...
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"Packed with the signature can-do attitude that makes beloved artist Danny Gregory a creativity guru to thousands across the globe, this unique guide serves up a hearty helping of inspiration. For aspiring artists who want to draw and paint but just can't seem to find time in the day, Gregory offers 5- to 10-minute exercises for every skill level that fit into any schedule--whether on a plane, in a meeting, or at the breakfast table--along with practical...
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The Great Courses
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2013.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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There are times when we all want (or need) to be creative on demand. And with the right approach, it's possible. Here, use Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway as a lens through which to explore four key principles of creativity training: defer judgment, go for quantity, make connections, and seek novelty.
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"Some people are just natural innovators, right? With no apparent effort, they discover ideas for new products, services, and entire businesses. It may look like innovators are born, not made. But according to Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregersen, anyone can become more innovative. How? Master the discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers. In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities...
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"Today it seems we have the world at our fingertips. Thanks to smartphones and tools such as Google and Wikipedia, we're able to feed any aspect of our curiosity instantly. But does this mean we are actually becoming more curious? Absolutely not. In Curious, Ian Leslie argues that true curiosity-the sustained quest for understanding that begets insight and innovation-is becoming increasingly difficult to harness in our wired world. We confuse ease...
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Yes, there really is enough time to do it all: the passion projects, the to-do list, or simply making time to do nothing-the trick is knowing how to look for it.
Packed with helpful tips, How Time Is on Your Side is a simple handbook to help reframe your relationship with time.
Through practical productivity tools and inspiring stories of people who make time for the things that matter to them, you will find that achieving your goals isn't as farfetched...
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A bright, tight writer's guide; that is what Phillipa Glendinning wrote in the Grahamstown Festival paper 'Wordstock' about How to Write – Right! She also says : this comprehensive guide is set out in a simple and easy to use … How to Write – Right! Is effective in teaching discipline and provides some eye opening points on being an author and publishing … What this book covers: How to write Do you regard yourself as a writer The spirituality...
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Wondering how essential oils can help you be a better writer? Look no more!
5 Days to Kick Your Limiting Beliefs To The Curb & Embrace Your Writer's Mindset With The Help of Essential Oils
The Creative and Vibrant Writer Experience is set up to help you embrace your #oilywriter.
Over 5 days the journal prompts and oils help you go deep to clear obstacles and self-limiting beliefs to become a healthier and more productive writer.
• Day 1 Finding...
12) Solar Verse
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The wide concept of out of the box thinking in correlation to spirituality and self help. Solar verse is a term that ties the authors passion to the unexplored subconscious of the reader in efforts to open the mind and artistic capability.
13) Art of living
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Suppose you had the opportunity to free yourself of allworldly responsibilities for ten days, with a quiet, secluded place inwhich to live, protected from disturbances. In this place the basic physical requirements of room and board would be provided for you, and helpers would be on hand to see that you were reasonably comfortable. In return you would be expected only to avoid contact with others and, apart from essential activities, to spend all...
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The ancient oracle system of the I Ching has guided wisdom seekers for over 5,000 years. Now those seeking insights and motivation can take advantage of these ancient predictions, recast by writing professor Sarah Jane Sloane into suggestions for contemporary writers. Each of the I Ching's sixtyfour hexagrams, interpreted by Sloane from years of study and comparisons of over fifty translations, offers directions and comments about what the future...
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These inspiring true stories tell of men and women who dared to look inward, damned the risks, and learned to love. Asking the question, "What would you do for love if you had no fear?" Diane Conway took to the streets, interviewing ordinary people about the crazy things they did for love. Drawn to Conway's warmth, emotional honesty, and outrageous, heartfelt humor, they told her their secrets, their fears, and their adventures on the road to love...
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Are you losing your "war of art"?
Are you being defeated by a tendency to procrastination, self-doubt, fear, distraction, and perfectionism? Are you self-sabotaging your loftiest artistic entrepreneurial dreams?
The antidote is in nine words: PUT YOUR ASS WHERE YOUR HEART WANTS TO BE.
Can you shift your artistic identity-your "ass"-from the shallow, fearful, superficial Ego to the wise, loving fearless Self? Can you commit to your...
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Procrastination is the enemy of the new writer.This book 4 in this series hopes to not provide another way of avoidance. This is a series of little books covering single topics on writing. Most books are long and involved in a lot of theory. Beginners are daunted by books that say too much! Reading on writing can create even more fear.This little book is about the importance of characters in your story. It is about creating characters and getting...
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Summoning Prosperity is about awakening the creative genius that is locked inside each and every one of us waiting to be nurtured and liberated. Through these love lit pages readers embark upon a bold journey of self discovery. It's an unique interactive multimedia experience that takes readers through an interesting range of topics such as: mindset, the defining characteristics of all great leaders, seeking out your life mentor, identifying your...
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Writing is a vocation, born of a need of each person. It is an inner manifestation, a communicational expression, be it artistic, scientific or of another literary genre. It is a property of the human being, communication through writing. This means that each one will do it in their own way and form, in the same way that each reader will interpret the content of a book, magazine or other, in a different way, understanding according to their own abilities...
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The concept of Noah Scalin's "365 method" is simple but inspired: Choose a theme or medium, then make something every day for a year. Noah made 365 skull-themed projects...now he invites you to choose your obsession and get creative!
The book offers 365 project prompts to kick start your creativity, plus plenty of room for journaling, sketching, and jotting down ideas. Learn how to choose your subject and document your work, and see examples from...
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