Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35911 in Books
• Published on: 1995-10-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Amazon.com Review
Besides being a writer himself, Eric Maisel is a therapist with a practice centered around artists, writers and performers and has seen many of the demons that haunt the creative life firsthand. In this inventive workbook, he comes up with many exercises designed to help you blast through your own inertia and fear, to get you back to the typewriter, the easel, or on the stage where you belong.

Customer Reviews

Something for when that drreaded block strikes
This book is helpful on many levels. First as a philosophical treatise on creative acts, then a well indexed guide to specific processes. The side tabs are intriguing, but I did't try baking the potato, imagining it was enough.

Fearless Creating
A timeless book suggesting ways for self confidence with one's artistic work. It is most important for recognizing the value of anxiety as a stimulus to work one's art. It offers self-directed suggestions for deepening the ability to apply oneself.

taking action
Buying this book is simply the first step on a journey toward meaning. Taking action begins there, and will continue as you give yourself permission to create.