Mark Pierce

An empathetic guide to recovering your creative soul. Combining heartfelt personal stories with inspirational and practical insights, Mark Pierce demonstrates how we can overcome artistic anxiety, find renewed creative courage, and produce meaningful work that matters. "Simple, powerful, and works like pure magic. I haven't read a book that shook me up this much since The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. The Creative Wound: Heal Your Broken Art is a must-read--and an essential tool--for creative people across the globe."- Lauren Sapala, author of Firefly Magic and The INFJ Writer As an artist, you put your heart into what you do. It's the seat of all your work. But if your creative heart breaks, you lose all expressive power. Deep down, you know if this damage would only heal then freedom of movement would return and you'd discover all that you are truly capable of. But how? This book explains: * Why your gift is desperately needed, especially as technology advances.* What understanding your story will reveal to your future creative self. * How to find inspiration when you're just not feeling it.* When daydreaming is your best productivity option.* How to own your own creativity and stop waiting for a big break.* The power of curiosity in living a truly creative life.* Effective ways to change course and find your true creative path. And that's just for starters... Praise for THE CREATIVE WOUND "A soothing balm for your creative battle scars, this is a book for anyone who feels they have more to bring to the world but suffer doubt, feel ashamed, or wildly over-think their creativity. It gently equips you to direct your life's art with purpose and perspective, rather than allowing the pain to write for you. Happy healing!" - Andy Mort, musician, writer, and creator of The Gentle Rebel Podcast The Creative Wound is a book that will help you take that vital look inside, and offers great wisdom and practical tips toward rebuilding your creative foundations in a stronger, more positive way." - Rick Jesse, Dogtooth brand & experience design TABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE: WHY YOUR CREATIVE LIFE MATTERS * Why Make Art? * Where Does The Art Go? PART TWO: DEFINE & LOCATE YOUR CREATIVE WOUNDS * When Creativity Freezes * Creative Wound Stories * The Clues Hidden In Your Story PART THREE: HEAL YOUR CREATIVE WOUNDS * Interpreting Our Stories * Passion & Choice * Find Out Who You Are * Good Ground * Inspiration * Community * Forgiveness * Thankful Thursday * 168 Hours * Cognitive Junk Food * Date Nights & Deadlines * Don't Patronise Me, I'm Starving * Perfectionism & Play * Meet You In Melbourne * Finish Something * Conclusion An addition to the conversation on creativity and vulnerability, The Creative Wound offers perspectives on themes sure to be familiar to readers of Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic, Steven Pressfield's The War Of Art, and Rob Bell's How To Be Here. It's time to heal your broken art.

Heal Your Broken Art

The Creative Wound

Karen Jennings

A seasoned storyteller helps teachers use stories to capture students' attention and expose them to 13 folk and fairy tales from around the world. The guide addresses everything a beginner needs to know, including how to warm up the audience, start and end a story, and assure audience involvement. Follow-up activities for each tale incorporate subjects such as creative writing, art, drama, math, science, geography, and history. Grades K-5. Suggested resources. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 117 pages.

Storytelling Tips and Tales

This is just like all the other how-to-write books - except scarier, and funnier, and more likely to make kids really want to write. Taken in sequence, 55 reproducible handouts guide each young writer through brainstorming and skill-building exercises in the vocabulary of fear, description of horror, dialog of dread, characterization of hero and villain, and plotting of suspense, eventually drawing one strong story out of each student. Grades 4-6. Suggested readings. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 87 pages.

A Guide to Writing Scary Stories

Write Fright

Teachers, learn how to turn laughter and joking in your classroom into a creative opportunity--teach comedy as a writing tool and use comedy as a learning facilitator. LET THE LAUGHS BEGIN! teaches kids how to apply comedic writing tools and provides an excellent tool for developing language and reading skills, enhancing the creative writing curriculum.

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