Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America's Foremost Creativity Coach
10 best books like Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America's Foremost Creativity Coach (Eric Maisel): The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Scribbling in the Sand, Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons, Happy at Last: The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy, Anne Frank, Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years, Evidence of Angels, Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, Lap Dancing for Mommy: Tender Stories of Disgust, Blame and Inspiration
| Author | Priscilla Long |
| ISBN | 0984242104 |
Suitable for both beginning and advanced writers of fiction and nonfiction, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life distills 20 years of teaching and creative thought by the well-published author Priscilla Long. The Writer's Portable Mentor helps writers understand...
| Author | Michael Card |
| ISBN | 0830823174 |
Best known as a singer/songwriter, Michael Card is also a gifted author and teacher. In Scribbling in the Sand, he looks at a familiar narrative from an imaginative perspective and highlights aspects of the story that we may not have seen before.
A woman caught in adultery was brought before...
| Author | Serita Stevens |
| ISBN | 0898793718 |
I've carted this reference book to each of the dozen or so places I've lived since college, and I've only used it a few times, but it's one of those books that is so well done that I can't let it go. You can look up poisons by reaction time, symptoms, foods that disguise them, and many other characteristics...
Happy at Last: The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy
| Author | Richard O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0312369069 |
From the bestselling author of Undoing Depression – a groundbreaking program to get happy and stay happy!
Do you want to live the happiest, most satisfying life possible? Does happiness feel like an elusive goal? According to the most recent developments in psychology and science, the...
| Author | Josephine Poole |
| ISBN | 0375832424 |
The life of Anne Frank, from birth until being taken from the hidden attic by the Nazis, is presented in this haunting, meticulously researched picture book. It is a compelling yet easy-to-understand "first" introduction to the Holocaust as witnessed by Anne and her family. The stunningly evocative...
| Author | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0140231587 |
In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she...
| Author | Suza Scalora |
| ISBN | 0061243434 |
I don’t normally review non-fiction, but when emailed by Suza Scalora asking if I would like to review Evidence of Angels, I thought I would give it a go. As I have an idea for my own fictional story regarding angels, Evidence of Angels is classed as research.
This review is going to be a little...
| Author | Sue Bender |
| ISBN | 0062512900 |
A short book with small dimensions and wide margins, and peppered with simple ink drawings of dishes and animals. 165 pages of emptiness; that is the theme of the book. Sue says it right away in the preface, the printed words inside an inked empty bowl-like shape:
"This story is about a bowl.
A...
| Author | Christina Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0553352024 |
In this classic book you will discover the intimate journey of personal and spiritual development that is possible through the practice of journal writing. In Life’s Companion, acclaimed author Christina Baldwin offers readers guidance and inspiration to this powerful way of expanding our inner...
| Author | Erika Lopez |
| ISBN | 1878067966 |
An intelligent and self-deprecating romp through the out there humor of one of today's funniest womenA collection of comic narratives that are hilariously incisive and illustrated in her splashy, apropos style, Lap Dancing for Mommy runs riot with mainstream perceptions of underground lifestyles...
| Author | Natalie Kinsey-Warnock |
| ISBN | 0440419700 |
Quila MacFarlane is devastated by the death of her mother, especially now that it’s just her and her father on Devils Rock where her father is the lighthouse keeper. They can’t leave and almost no one ever comes to visit them. But the morning after a storm, something floats ashore that changes their...
| Author | Hildegard of Bingen |
| ISBN | 0939680211 |
An introduction to the life and work of Hildegard.
• Reveals the life and teachings of one of the greatest female artists and intellectuals of the Western Mystical Tradition.
• Contains 24 full-color illustrations by Hildegard of Bingen.
• Includes commentary by Matthew...
| Author | Oriah Mountain Dreamer |
| ISBN | 0060011963 |
In her previous books, Oriah Mountain Dreamer has challenged readers to live with passion and honesty, to embrace the true, fallible, human self. What We Ache For is a moving and eloquent call to delve deeply into our creative selves, to do our creative work, and offer it to the world.
The creative...
Hearing from God: 5 Steps to Knowing His Will for Your Life
| Author | David Stine |
| ISBN | 1501147323 |
Pastor David Stine, the lead pastor at DC Metro Church, has created a practical and informational 40-day guide to hearing God, understanding His will, and discovering the path He has in store for your life.
Throughout his time as a lead pastor, members of his congregation have asked Pastor...
| Author | Shirley du Boulay |
| ISBN | 0974240524 |
This intelligent, balanced portrait of an irreverent, intense, and fiery Renaissance woman and her times includes moving excerpts from her letters and sublime spiritual writings. Her unconventional, progressive views on prayer and worship, her outstanding administrative and literary talents,...
| Author | Ansen Dibell |
| ISBN | 0898799465 |
"There are ways to create, fix, steer and discover plots--ways which, over a writing life, you'd eventually puzzle out for yourself," writes Ansen Dibell. "They aren't laws. They're an array of choices, things to try, once you've put a name to the particular problem you're facing now."
That's...
| Author | Martha Alderson |
| ISBN | 1440525889 |
When it comes to writing bestsellers, it's all about the plot. Trouble is, plot is where most writers fall down--but you don't have to be one of them. With this book, you'll learn how to create stories that build suspense, reveal character, and engage readers--one scene at a time.
Celebrated...
| Author | Rob Reger |
| ISBN | 0811847713 |
A bona fide anti-hero of international fame, Emily's first two books have taken the world by dark-and-stormy might with more than 130,000 copies of the US editions sold, plus editions in 5 different languages. Now, Emily invites her brooding devotees to come even closer with a trip deep into her psyche...
SARK's Journal and Play! Book
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 0890877025 |
I love this journal.
The size is great, 8 1/2 x 11, big, easy to write in (although not so great for portability).
It is full of SARK's drawings and writing suggestions, really helps motivate me to write when I can't think of anything to write about.
I mostly use it as my "therapy"...
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists
In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how a professional, contemporary artist sustains a creative practice...
Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler
| Author | Lavinia Spalding |
| ISBN | 1932361677 |
Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love) to write one’s own memoir; the second, an explosion of social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to document and share their...
The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents
| Author | Alexander Levy |
| ISBN | 0738203610 |
A guide to understanding and coping with grief and all of the disorienting emotions that accompany the death of our parents
Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a prolonged...
Little Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On: Twenty Lessons for Managing Worry, Anxiety, and Fear
| Author | Mark A. Reinecke |
| ISBN | 1572248815 |
First featured on a British poster produced during World War II, 'Keep calm and carry on' has become the mantra of millions—but exactly how to keep calm remains a difficult question for most of us.
The next time you are stressed by pressures at work, overwhelmed by life's challenges, or panicked...
