Jump-Start Your Daily Creative Practice!
Eric Maisel, Ph.D.
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“Maisel has made a career out of helping artists and writers cope with the traumas and troubles that are the price of admission to a creative life.”
— Intuition Magazine

“Artists will appreciate Maisel’s straightforward approach to the problems they face.”
— Variety

“Maisel’s psychological approach sets him apart.”
— Library Journal


Real help for creative people running into difficulties has finally arrived. Throughout his counseling career, “creativity coach” Eric Maisel has focused on helping creative people overcome blocks, examine the reasons they wish to create, and help them follow through with practical and achievable goals and steps. Eric Maisel’s Coaching the Artist Within offers creators twelve lessons in creativity that help them overcome most any creativity challenges that come their way.

COACHING THE ARTIST WITHIN will:
• Help any person become more creative
• Provide creative people with a complete program for developing their creative nature
• Identify the twelve most important skills a creative person needs to master

A few of the lessons Eric teaches creators are how to stifle negative self-talk, strategies for implementing schedules for creative projects, how to put aside day-to-day drama and focus in on being creative, and new approaches to starting projects. Real life examples from his creativity coaching practice — a rock musician scared to go solo, a screenwriter pining to write poetry, a painter gripped by mania — are used to elaborate the creativity lessons. And each lesson includes two exercises that help readers incorporate the lesson into their lives. This is a must-read for any creative person that wants to jump-start their creativity.

To spice up this journey Eric writes each chapter with a novelist’s flair, tossing in secrets and anecdotes about painters, film makers, screenwriters, novelists, dancers, and poets. Eric’s description of their struggles and the way he guides them to examine their choices and blocks will entertain readers while teaching them how to begin asking themselves the right questions and discovering their own personal muse and the motivation they need to keep creating. The book is inspiring, fun, and practical, all at once.

About the Author
Eric Maisel, Ph.D., is America’s foremost creativity coach and is widely known as the creativity expert. He is a columnist (“Psychology of Creativity”) for Art Calendar Magazine, the number one business on-line and print magazine for visual artists. In addition to coaching individuals, Eric offers workshops a few times each month, including speaking regularly at the Romance Writers of America conference (attended by more than a thousand writers) and other writers’ conferences and universities throughout the world. He is the author of Fearless Creating (Tarcher), Van Gogh Blues (St. Martin’s), Life in the Arts (Tarcher), Affirmations for Artists (Tarcher), and the Quotable Muse series. He lives in San Francisco with his family. Visit his website at: www.ericmaisel.com.

COACHING THE ARTIST WITHIN
Advice for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists, and Musicians from America’s Foremost Creativity Coach
By Eric Maisel, Ph.D.
Publication Date: February 15, 2005
Price: $14.95, Trade Paperback, 256 Pages
ISBN: 1-57731-464-6
Publisher: New World Library

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