Fearless Creating (A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting and Completing Your Work of Art)

Widely regarded as a modern classic, Fearless Creating has taken its place among the greats of creativity literature. As the best work available on the stages of the creative process, the anxieties associated with each stage, and the strategies for dealing with creative challenges, this beloved book of immense value to new generations of creatives and to everyone who writes, paints, composes, or engages in any creative pursuit.

Carefully guiding readers through the stages of the creative process—nurturing the wish to create, choosing your next subject, starting to work, persisting in the work, completing the work, and showing the work—Dr. Maisel provides readers with a clear picture of what’s required as a creative and new hope for overcoming creative blocks, realizing artistic dreams, and succeeding in the arts.

As the author of more than twenty books for creatives, among them Affirmations for Artists and Coaching the Artist Within, as the founder of the profession of creativity coaching, and as a diplomat coach who trains coaches nationally and internationally, Dr. Maisel knows this territory—and shares his vast experience with new and seasoned creative alike.

With an understanding that could only be gained through decades of working with creatives in all the disciplines, and from his own experience as the author of more than fifty books, Dr. Maisel guides readers past the pitfalls that appear at each stage of the creative process. By engaging with Dr. Maisel’s exercises and following his suggestions and advice, readers will emerge with renewed hope and confidence and with the tools needed to start and complete their creative work, meet the challenges of the creative life, and live life as a fearless creator.