Creativity category: 1277 books

Discover the revolutionary writing practice that can transform your life! In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf, then a university English professor, sat down with pen and paper and intuitively started a self-guided writing practice that helped to bring herself into focus and clarify her life as...

A perfectionist is a writer for whom nothing is ever finished or right. In worse case scenarios, the perfectionist can’t even get anything down on paper. Perfectionism grows in the dirt of fear and has no purpose other than making you feel terrible about yourself and what you create.Perfectionism...

An inspirational, practical & literate guide to starting & keeping a journal - & transforming it into something permanent like a memoir or a novel. Leaving A Trace is a practical guide to keeping a journal successfully & transforming it into future projects. Each chapter features both...

Want to write better blurbs? Blurb writing is the most misunderstood task we undertake. Herein, I'll dissect the principles at work behind awesome blurbs, examine the common mistakes, and detail some completed case studies. Once I've shown you the five steps to strengthening the book description,...

Are you relentlessly curious and creative, always willing to rock the boat in order to get things done . . . extremely energetic and focused, yet constantly switching gears . . . intensely sensitive, able to intuit subtly charged situations and decipher others' feeling? If these traits sound familiar,...

Subiendo la apuesta de su exitoso manual sobre literatura creativa, H.G. Quintana nos propone una aventura más profunda: disfrutar una la novela con la que se aprende a escribir y/o comprender otras novelas. Aquí una creadora en ciernes, en un momento de crisis, descubre cómo los libros, la literatura,...

Bobby Everett Smith takes a magical journey to the planet Urantia in an alternate Universe to participate in a weekly Meetup for a Writer’s Master Mind group. In addition to Bobby, the group contains four famous authors and an eBook publisher who review the habits they have developed which has led...

Sometimes all it takes is a single word to spark a strong memory. Bicycle. Snowstorm. Washing machine. By presenting one-word prompts and simple phrases, author and writing teacher Patty Dann gives us the keys to unlock our life stories. Organized around her ten rules for writing memoir, Dann’s...

A new edition celebrating the tenth anniversary of this cult classic memoir! Once upon a time, a young girl walked into a world of wonder and delight. But that's not where this story starts. The young woman published a nationally recognized children's book and edited a star-filled collection of stories...

This book for professional and amateur musicians is an inspired cross between Stephen Covey’s wildly popular Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and Debbie Allen’s Confessions of a Shameless Self Promoter. Musician and rock journalist, Michael Gelfand (of the band, Fuller), shoots from...

'You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear'. Such were the words of the master detective Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson, as he noted how his friend failed to implement Holmes' techniques. In "How to think like Sherlock" you will learn how to increase your powers of observation,...

The bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human. Ten years after her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal delivers...

Psychotherapist David Richo offers a fresh and inspiring approach to personal growth: we can use the process of writing and reading poetry to move toward greater self-understanding and emotional healing. Even if you’ve never written a poem before, you can learn to use poetry to explore your feelings,...

Haiku: How To Write It in Minutes is the perfect guide for the would-be Haiku writer. This enduring Japanese form comes to life in poet and teacher Robert McDowell's crisp and inspiring poetry manual, one of several in his Forms of Poetry Series. Beginning with the case for writing poetry in traditional...