Stoking the Creative Fires, Phil Cousineau
Stoking the Creative Fires, Phil Cousineau
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Stoking the Creative Fires
9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Author: Phil Cousineau

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/17/2023

Synopsis

The award-winning author and filmmaker shares nine strategies for getting past creative burn-out and rekindling your imagination.

Contrary to popular belief, creativity isn't just about muses and mentors. It's a process that requires focus, determination, and practice. Creative blocks are just a part of that process. In Stoking the Creative Fires, Phil Cousineau offers creative people of all disciplines the tools for getting past creative blocks and rekindling passion.

Stoking the Creative Fires also shares a multitude of stories, ideas, and exercises that will inspire listeners to live passionately and creatively, whether building a business, an art project, or a life. Drawn from historical and contemporary figures, artists, and from his own experience, Cousineau presents creative techniques and quotes to help explore and define your creative discipline and vision.

About Phil Cousineau

Phil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, lecturer, storyteller, and TV host. His fascination with the art, literature, and history of culture has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh, Iceland to the Amazon, in a worldwide search for what the ancients called the "soul of the world." With more than thirty-five books and fifteen scriptwriting credits to his name, the "omnipresent influence of myth in modern life" is a thread that runs through all of his work.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

As both an artist, and writer, this book was a lucky find for me. The author does a great job at providing concrete solutions for keeping the creative engine running. It is well thought out, and to the point. It goes a long way to demystifying the creative mind, which I believe we all have, and prov......more

Goodreads review by tomlinton

I won't say much except to tell you it got me out of a creative slump It's staying on my Kindle and will become part of my reference library I would have bought more of the books it references if they had only been available on the Kindle......more

Goodreads review by Karen

I thought this book was very inspiring and it had a lot of great quotes and anecdotes about creativity. It’s no more than a 3 out of 5 for me because it reminds me of a commonplace book — mostly a collection of admittedly inspiring and interesting quotes and images.......more

Goodreads review by Neil

I liked this, had some very practical exercises to renew creativity. Really enjoyed some of the parables in the book. It feels a little unpolished but a helpful book on the creative process.......more

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