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20 Creative Blocks – and How to Break Through Them
There are few things more frustrating than creative blocks – and they come in all shapes and sizes, so there’s no universal solution.
This free 114-page ebook covers many different types of block — and offers practical solutions you can use if you ever find yourself blocked.
The project started as an experiment on my blog, Lateral Action. I posted an invitation to my readers to tell me about their creative blocks, and promised to write a series of blog posts offering solutions to them.
http://media.lateralaction.com/creati...
This free 114-page ebook covers many different types of block — and offers practical solutions you can use if you ever find yourself blocked.
The project started as an experiment on my blog, Lateral Action. I posted an invitation to my readers to tell me about their creative blocks, and promised to write a series of blog posts offering solutions to them.
http://media.lateralaction.com/creati...
114 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2011
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June 8, 2015
This book is available free on Mark’s website and is under a creative commons licence.
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I am doing his Creative Pathfinder course - also free - you can sign up for it at his website.
creative pathfinder
Reading this is part of my homework.
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Mark has done a lot. He’s a poet, a writer and he runs courses in creative management. He’s been a psych and a drug counselor and he’s done the boring office jobs, too.
As part of his work running workshops, he has been asked a lot of different questions about how to deal with issues with regard to …well… everything.
Everything from what Stephen Pressfield calls the ‘resistance’, to finishing what you started, to writing with kids & spouses, to being an already successful author and being terrified that you can’t do it again.
These are his answers.
I love the ‘pretend you aren’t going to do it’ idea. I’m not going jogging, I’m just putting my running gear on… that would totally work with my brain. Half the time it is the starting that is the issue.
I’m not editing that story I haven’t finished - I’m just reading it through again… nothing to see here, brain.
Huh.
Sneaky bugger…
4 stars
I’ll be reading this one again.
wishful thinking ebooks
I am doing his Creative Pathfinder course - also free - you can sign up for it at his website.
creative pathfinder
Reading this is part of my homework.
***
Mark has done a lot. He’s a poet, a writer and he runs courses in creative management. He’s been a psych and a drug counselor and he’s done the boring office jobs, too.
As part of his work running workshops, he has been asked a lot of different questions about how to deal with issues with regard to …well… everything.
Everything from what Stephen Pressfield calls the ‘resistance’, to finishing what you started, to writing with kids & spouses, to being an already successful author and being terrified that you can’t do it again.
These are his answers.
I love the ‘pretend you aren’t going to do it’ idea. I’m not going jogging, I’m just putting my running gear on… that would totally work with my brain. Half the time it is the starting that is the issue.
I’m not editing that story I haven’t finished - I’m just reading it through again… nothing to see here, brain.
Look again, and you’ll see that in every instance I encouraged people to stop thinking about having a block or what the block might be (let alone where it came from) and got them to look at what they were THINKING and DOING that was keeping them stuck.
Then we flipped it round and looked at options for new things they could think and do, that might get them unstuck.
Huh.
Sneaky bugger…
4 stars
I’ll be reading this one again.
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