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Mastering creative anxiety, twenty-four lessons for writers, painters, musicians, and actors from America's foremost creativity coach, Eric Maisel

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Mastering creative anxiety

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Eric Maisel

twenty-four lessons for writers, painters, musicians, and actors from America's foremost creativity coach

In his decades of therapeutic practice with artists, Eric Maisel has found a common thread behind what often gets labeled 'writer's block', 'procrastination', or 'stage fright'. It's the particular anxiety that keeps creators from doing, completing, or sharing the work they are paradoxically driven toward

The anxiety of creating and not creating -- The anxiety of mattering and not mattering -- The anxiety of identity -- The anxiety of individuality -- The anxiety of choosing the creative life -- The anxiety of surviving -- The anxiety of day jobs -- The anxiety of choosing -- The anxiety of compromising -- The anxiety of possibility -- The anxiety of working -- The anxiety of thinking -- The anxiety of ruining -- The anxiety of failing -- The anxiety of completing -- The anxiety of attaching and caring -- The anxiety of ego bruising -- The anxiety of performing -- The anxiety of selling -- The anxiety of promoting -- The anxiety of procrastinating -- The anxiety of waiting -- The anxiety of repeating -- The anxiety of success

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