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

From the publisher. In his decades as a psychotherapist and creativity coach, 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, paradoxically, keeps creators from doing, completing, or sharing the work they are driven toward. This "creative anxiety" can take the form of avoiding the work, declaring it not good enough, or failing to market it -- and it can cripple creators for decades, even lifetimes. But Maisel has learned what sets successful creators apart. He shares these strategies here, including artist-specific stress management; how to work despite bruised egos, day jobs, and other inevitable frustrations; and what not to do to deal with anxiety. Implementing these twenty-four lessons replaces the pain of not creating with the profound rewards of free artistic self-expression.;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.