Discusses the creativity process and the difficulties writers may encounter, including rejection, writer's block, and self-promotion

Living the Writer's Life: A Complete Self-Help Guide

Eric Maisel

Literature & Fiction

Watson/Guptill

Using examples of famous (Vincent Van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevksy) and not so famous artists and creative people who have struggled with depression, Dr Maisel shows what lessons can be learned from them and how depression can be harnesed and put to creative use. His four-step, non-pharmaceutical treatment plan offers insights for anyone involved in the creative process and legitimizes for many creative people suffering from depression their own instinctive feeling that standard treatments are not the whole answer.

The Van Gogh Blues : The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

Self-Help

Creativity

Rodale UK

[Read by Stephen Vernon] An inside look at the creativity coaching process with twenty-five real-life examples of the correspondence between one of the world's most renowned creativity coaches and his clients. Having worked with all types of artists from every corner of the world, Eric Maisel is acutely aware of the issues that creative folks face: resistance and blockage, existential sadness, decreased productivity, marketing and promotion, distracting addictions, and simple survival are just a few of the obstacles artists struggle with on their paths to success. Secrets of a Creativity Coach utilizes real, word-for-word interactions between Maisel and twenty-five of his clients to provide listeners an inside look at the creativity coaching process. With an emphasis on openness and simplicity, Secrets of a Creativity Coach clearly demonstrates the exact challenges creative and performing artists face, how they become stuck (and how to unstick them), and, perhaps most impressively, how change can happen in a short amount of time. Secrets of a Creativity Coach is a valuable resource for artists struggling to meet their goals and creativity coaches seeking to improve the communication between themselves and their clients in a digital setting.

Secrets of a Creativity Coach

Motivational Press and Blackstone Audio

[Read by Stephen Vernon] Eric Maisel, widely regarded as America's foremost creativity coach, presents Settled, an odyssey of adventure chronicling the creation of a second Israel. What would happen if Israelis moved en masse to a location where their children could grow up in peace and prosperity? And what if Jews from around the world began to join them? Could a single man create this historic exodus? How would the world react? What forces might be unleashed as the idea of a second Israel begins to take hold? Follow David Cohen from the moment he survives a suicide bombing in Jerusalem to the fateful day when he sets foot onto the island that will become New Israel. Live the epic adventure that may foreshadow world headlines. Settled is more than a novel about Israel and the Jews; it examines how a lone individual can make a difference. In a world where untold millions are wondering why there isn't more to life, Settled provides a blueprint for individual engagement. It announces to readers that although creating a second Israel may not be among your important life purposes, what is? On one hand, Settled is an odyssey of adventure, chronicling the creation of a second Israel. At the same time, it is a novel of life purpose and meaning. Settled happens to be about Israel and the Jews, but it is fundamentally about how we can all live in the twenty-first century, create our own meaning, and decide on our own life purposes.

Settled

World Literature

Eric Maisel, Motivational Press and Blackstone Audio

[Read by Stephen Vernon] Eric Maisel, widely regarded as America's foremost creativity coach, presents Settled, an odyssey of adventure chronicling the creation of a second Israel.   What would happen if Israelis moved en masse to a location where their children could grow up in peace and prosperity? And what if Jews from around the world began to join them? Could a single man create this historic exodus? How would the world react? What forces might be unleashed as the idea of a second Israel begins to take hold?  Follow David Cohen from the moment he survives a suicide bombing in Jerusalem to the fateful day when he sets foot onto the island that will become New Israel. Live the epic adventure that may foreshadow world headlines. Settled is more than a novel about Israel and the Jews; it examines how a lone individual can make a difference. In a world where untold millions are wondering why there isn't more to life, Settled provides a blueprint for individual engagement. It announces to readers that although creating a second Israel may not be among your important life purposes, what is?  On one hand, Settled is an odyssey of adventure, chronicling the creation of a second Israel. At the same time, it is a novel of life purpose and meaning. Settled happens to be about Israel and the Jews, but it is fundamentally about how we can all live in the twenty-first century, create our own meaning, and decide on our own life purposes.

Despite all the high-tech advances of the last several years, one aspect of the work environment remains sadly inefficient: coworkers’ ability to communicate well. Emails abound, teleconferences connect distant offices, and deals are closed in a matter of minutes. Yet most of the things people accomplish — or don’t — depends on their ability to communicate with others. These 20 tips, designed to serve both employee and employer, include advice on how to offer critical feedback, understand the messages one receives, sort out motivations, offer praise, and keep people informed. Each suggestion is followed by an explanation along with examples. Brief exercises help readers assess their own communication skills.

20 Communication Tips at Work: A Quick and Easy Guide to Successful Business Relationships

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

New World Library

Creative people will experience depressionthat’s a given. It’s a given because they are regularly confronted by doubts about the meaningfulness of their efforts. Theirs is a kind of depression that does not respond to pharmaceutical treatment. What’s required is healing in the realm of meaning. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Maisel teaches creative people how to handle these recurrent crises of meaning and how to successfully manage the anxieties of the creative process. Using examples both from the lives of famous creators such as van Gogh and from his own creativity coaching practice, Maisel explains that despite their inevitable difficulties, creative people possess the ability to forge relationships, repair themselves, and find meaning in their work and their lives. Maisel presents a step-by-step plan to help creative people handle their special brand of depression and rediscover the reasons they are driven to create in the first place.

The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person s Path Through Depression

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Imagine solving problems and increasing creativity while you sleep. In Sleep Thinking, Dr. Eric Maisel introduces a simple but revolutionary program grounded in current brain research that shows us how to do just that -- think while we sleep.
Readers will meet several ordinary people and see them work the sleep thinking program to solve their important problems as they sleep, including: -- Nancy who works through her failing interest in college -- Jack, an electrical engineer who is having anger management problems. -- Thirty-six-year-old Joanne who uses sleep thinking to help her understand how to help her eighth grader stop his slide into school failure.
The sleep thinker uses his or her own brain power to extract important information from the fruits of sleep thinking. The answers that arrive lead to actions, which lead to change.
Few people can afford not to explore the power of sleep thinking. In this book, Eric Maisel teaches readers how to use the full power of the brain and learn to make use of this idea management and life purpose clarification tool called sleep thinking.

Sleep Thinking: The Revolutionary Program That Helps You Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep

MAISEL, ERIC

Maisel, Natalya

Stress Management

Adams Media Corp.

Get Inside Your Character's Head
Just how well do you know your characters?
Test yourselfand your characterswith 30 interactive pop quizzes designed to help you discover exactly what makes your characters tick.
Noted author Eric Maisel draws on his technical knowledge of the craft and his background in psychology to show you how to combine character traits, character psychology, and character development to create realistic, memorable, and mutable characters.
The 30 real-life scenarios include questions and answers that provide you with a window into your characters' souls. For example:
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<li>What would motivate your character to tell a liea big lie that may have unintended consequences?</li>
<li>Is your character the type who would blow the whistle on a corporate cover-up or would she quietly toe the line?</li>
<li>How would your character cope with the loss of a parent with whom he was exceptionally close?</li>
<li>How likely would your character be to flirt with an attractive stranger in a hotel bar?</li>
<li>Is your character the type who would drop everythingand everyonefor a spontaneous road trip?</li>
</ul>
Plus, find out how to develop each scenario further using corresponding prompts and specific psychological insight into areas such as the role friendship plays in a person's mental and physical health, conflict resolution in intimate relationships, and the connection between time-impatience and free-floating hostility.
With What Would Your Character Do?, you don't have to guess at your character's responses to the important decisions and unexpected challenges he's sure to encounter in your story. Use and reuse these scenarios on each of your characters until you've got a nuanced, distinct cast that readers will never be able to forget!

What Would Your Character Do?

Ann Maisel

Writer's Digest Books

Critiquing the Psychiatric Model

Chuck Ruby

Psychology & Counseling

Ethics International Press

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Living the Writer's Life: A Complete Self-Help Guide

The Van Gogh Blues : The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

Secrets of a Creativity Coach

Settled

Settled

20 Communication Tips at Work: A Quick and Easy Guide to Successful Business Relationships

The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person s Path Through Depression

Sleep Thinking: The Revolutionary Program That Helps You Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and Increase Creativity While You Sleep

What Would Your Character Do?

Critiquing the Psychiatric Model