The best-selling creator of Show Your Work! shares uplifting, anecdotal advice on how to stay true to and focused on one's creative vision in spite of burnout and external distractions.

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past-toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields...

"Irreverent and inspiring advice for awakening your creative potential, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic. This beautiful and useful small-format hardcover-teeming with full-color art, sidebars, and contributions from art-world legends and everyday creatives-How to Be an Artist is a book for anyone who's ever yearned to make the arts a part of their life"--

¿Crees que eras la primera persona que se siente así? ¿Que nadie ha intentado crear una obra maestra, emprender una carrera creativa o simplemente dar un primer paso artístico sin dudar de todo? Pues deja que Adam J. Jurtz te diga algo: ha pasado, y él lo ha vivido en primera persona. De aquí nace esta guía de sabios, empáticos y honestos consejos sobre el arte de crear. Consejos que podrás compartir con quien los necesite o colocar en un...

Ever hit a creative roadblock? Feared the blank page? Couldn't figure out where to start or what's next? Il-list-ration is an invitation to challenge your creative limitations.

"Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work,...

"Creative block presents the most crippling--and unfortunately universal--challenge for artists. No longer! This chunky blockbuster of a book is chock-full of solutions for overcoming all manner of artistic impediment. The blogger behind The Jealous Curator interviews 50 successful international artists working in different mediums and mines their insights on how to conquer self-doubt, stay motivated, and get new ideas to flow. Each artist offers...