The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
Author: Eric Maisel
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ISBN: 1585420298
Publisher: J. P. Tarcher (15 June, 2000)
Sales Rank: 51,412
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Worth reading, doing, keeping, re-reading
Eric Maisel is a prolific writer with a penchant for helping artists. And this book is no exception. For those who have read Cameron's "The Artist's Way," in the required number of weeks and wish there were other timed guides, Maisel's book is the answer. It's a year's worth of creative work, some gentle and imaginative, some kick-in-the-rear tough. I'll admit I read all the way through it, and I'll bet Maisel knew that most readers would. It's an interesting read that way, with Maisel's wry observations and self-deprecating humor serving as another level of inspiration. There is a lot hiding in this book, waiting to be discovered. The quotes in the scholar's margins create their own interesting commentary. Use this book to dip into when you are bored, stymied, frustrated, lonely or stuck. You won't come away feeling the same way. You might not want to do every exercise Maisel suggests, but imagining them might be enough to give you creative traction again.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent Resource for All Artists
All artists need a daily dose of positive thinking every single day, and this book provides just that. As a Creativity Coach who has studied with Eric Maisel, I can say that everything he writes is well grounded in his personal experiences and successes.
Rating: 4 out of 5
I am cheating and still, its excellent!
Maisel's book is a year long study and integrated plan to both practice and experience "creativity as a religion". The suggested plan is to work through the book sequentially... which is an EXCELLENT intention I hope readers take on. And at the same time, I am reading bits and pieces and chunks and applying not step by step but instead following syncronicity in my life.My theory and observation is that either will neet positive results.
The bite sized chunks with the very human voice of the author, once again a book by Eric Maisel hits the target both artistically and effectively.
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