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The Inspiration Paradox: Your Best Creative Time Is Not When You Think

By Cindy May — 2012

Innovation and creativity are greatest when we are not at our best, at least with respect to our circadian rhythms.

Read on www.scientificamerican.com

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Casually Explained: The Creative Process

They say you write how you think, which is why my word documents are usually blank.

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2018
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Lessons Learned from the Onion’s Creative Process | Brian JANOSCH | TEDxBloomington

What you already know is that The Onion is a comedy institution. But what might surprise you is that for 30 years it’s also been one of America’s most consistent and effective idea factories.

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2019
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Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

Writers, painters, singers, filmmakers, musicians, craftspeople, and actors confront daunting challenges every day. It is hard to produce new work, find success in the marketplace, manage relationships, and keep spirits up.

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Eric Maisel
2013
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Coaching the Artist Within: Advice for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists, and Musicians from America’s Foremost Creativity Coach

Creativity Coaching Essentials shows people how to become more effective creators by guiding them through 12 self-coaching lessons.

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Eric Maisel
2005
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Unleashing the Artist Within: Breaking through Blocks and Restoring Creative Purpose

Are you a painter, writer, actor, dancer, musician, or would-be creative? Are you stuck in the process of creating and sharing your art? In Unleashing the Artist Within, Eric Maisel, PhD offers lessons, anecdotes, and real-life case studies that will help you unlock your creative powers. Dr.

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Eric Maisel
2020
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Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators

Minding the Muse is a practical handbook for the artist or writer—highly experienced, aspiring, or somewhere in between.

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Priscilla Long
2016
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On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity

On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J.

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Ellen J. Langer
2025
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms.

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Stephen Nachmanovitch
1991
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250 Brief, Creative & Practical Art Therapy Techniques: A Guide for Clinicians and Clients

Creative, fun & fast therapeutic warm-ups! When a client walks into the therapy room they don't know what to expect-feeling anxious, unsure and perhaps fearful.

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Susan I. Buchalter
2025
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Focus on the things that ACTUALLY MATTER // Advice for Creatives

"Hey Tom, have you noticed the drop in instagram engagement lately? I've been trying to grow my account and none of my posts seem to be going anywhere" I get asked pretty much daily about my opinions on the algorithm, how to grow on instagram, what I think of X and how I can help someone with Y.

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2020
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