Pencil Dancing : New Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit
Editorial Reviews Amazon.com The back cover of Pencil Dancing asserts that "there is a creative genius within you." Chapter titles include "Going into Your Egg," "Wake Up and Notice the Fuzz on the Rose Petals," and "The Value of Being Weird." The book's author, Mari Messer, leads workshops on creativity, writing, and art, and she loves similes: she likes to think of creativity "as a seagoing vessel encrusted ... with barnacles"; she uses her writer's notebook like a net, "where I could catch a thought and preserve it like a butterfly under glass." She emphasizes the need both to break out of your shell and to build your own chrysalis. Her exercises include designing a coat of arms "to symbolize your vision" and molding in clay "an image of a person, animal or thing that represents your creative muse." She peppers her book with anecdotes from her life and those of her artist and writer friends, as well with quotations from the works of Betty Edwards, Alan Watts, and Ram Dass. She writes about creative visualization and taking "soul days." Pencil Dancing is clearly written to appeal to the spiritually inclined, though it does balance its New-Agey earnestness with a healthy dose of humor and some solid ideas on fostering creativity that will appeal to others as well. --Jane Steinberg Book Description Pencil Dancing offers readers a fresh take on developing creative confidence, overcoming blocks and taming their inner critics. They'll discover fun and effective ways to achieve satisfying creative expression and enrich their daily lives, approaching creativity from the point of view of a "dance" between conscious and unconscious, left and right brain, creator and critic, logic and creativity.
The book is divided into fifty short chapters, presented as if an encouraging teacher or coach is standing close at hand. Readers will find prompts, field trip activities, vivid imagery and other methods that allow them to get into a creative mode, and to conquer writer's block and other creative difficulties.
* This book is perfect for anyone who wants to be more creative!
* Contains concise instruction that's lighthearted and clearly organized
* In the tradition of the Artist's Way, Pencil Dancing encourages both creativity and personal growth
Pencil Dancing : New Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit
Pencil Dancing : New Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit,Mari Messer,Walking Stick Press,158297005X,Creation (Literary, artistic,,Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.),Creativity,General,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Self-Help,Techniques - Pencil Drawing
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