Stoking the Creative Fires

Stoking the Creative Fires
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How to Conquer Creative Block and Ignite the Creative Process Stoking the Creative Fires is a burn-out antidote for any creative process. Follow award-winning author and filmmaker, Phil Cousineau, as he overcomes creative block with tools that alleviate burnout and rekindle passion. Practice makes progress.  Contrary to popular belief, creativity isn’t just mentors and muses. Igniting the creative process requires focus and practice—determined practice that eventually sparks habits. In this warm and conversational exploration of creative inspiration, Cousineau crafts the ultimate self-discipline model for today’s creatives. In  Stoking the Creative Fires , explore the different ways to ignite your inner fire, and the creative techniques that keep it lit. Why is discipline important to the artist?  With a multitude of stories, ideas, and exercises  Stoking the Creative Fires  inspires readers 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, find creative techniques, quotes, and handpicked images, to help explore questions like: Why is discipline important?Where do you want to be?How’s your fire? If you enjoyed books like  The Artist's Way ,  The War of Art , or  Do the Work , then you’ll love  Stoking the Creative Fires .

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Phil Cousineau. Stoking the Creative Fires

STOKING THE CREATIVE FIRES

BOOKS BY PHIL COUSINEAU

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

A Fable about Fire

The Creative Journey

THE CIRCULAR ADVENTURE

THE JOURNEY

STEPPING ONTO THE PATH

Inspiration

Fires of the Imagination

HOLD ONTO THE THREAD

FIRES OF THE IMAGINATION IN A NUTSHELL

Celebrating Reverie

THE RIVER OF REVERIE

EXERCISE1: First, dream the painting, then, paint the dream. Van Gogh's revelation to his brother about the role of reverie is a spark off the flint for your own work

FROM REVERIE TO CREATIVITY

EXERCISE2. Six Ways to Dream with Your Eyes Open

WHAT THEN SHALL WE DO?

THREE WAYS TO RECOGNIZE REVERIE:

HONORING THE FIRE

EXERCISE3: A One-hour Reverie Exercise

CELEBRATING REVERIE IN A NUTSHELL

Seizing the Moment

SACRED TIME

EXERCISE4: Five Excellent Ways to Seize the Moment

MAXIMS TO LIVE BY

TIME ON FIRE

TIME AND THE ART OF LIVING CREATIVELY

SEIZING THE MOMENT IN A NUTSHELL

Seeking Guidance

THE CROSSROADS OF CREATIVITY

THE MENTOR'S MISSION

GUIDING WORDS TO LIVE BY

EXERCISE7. Four Ways to Reflect on Mentors

THE MUSES' GIFT

EXERCISE8. Nine Ways to Invoke the Muses

SEEKING GUIDANCE IN A NUTSHELL

Perspiration

Creative Space

THE TALENT OF A ROOM

A ROOM OF YOUR OWN

EXERCISE9. Four Ways to Create Your Own Room

SACRED SPACE

CREATIVE SPACE IN A NUTSHELL

Deep Focus

“WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR YOU TO MOVE?”

EXERCISE11. Seven Ways to Improve Your Focus

“ATTENTION MUST BE PAID”

EXERCISE12. A Simple Focus Practice

EXERCISE13. Five Ways to Follow Your Fascination

THE FAR SIDE OF FOCUS

DEEP FOCUS IN A NUTSHELL

Burn-Out

A TOUCH OF MADNESS

THE WORK IS THE WAY OUT

EXERCISE14. Ten Ways to Step Back from the Edge

EXERCISE15. Three Ways to Rekindle Your Fire

IF YOU'RE STUCK, STRETCH

KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON

EXERCISE16. Four Ways to Keep on Keepin' On

EXERCISE17. Six Ways to Avoid Burn-out

THE PHOENIX, THE POET, AND PERSEPHONE RISING

BURN-OUT IN A NUTSHELL

Realization

Real Work

CROSSING THE EQUATOR

EINSTEIN'S THREE RULES OF WORK

WHEN IT'S INK

EXERCISE18. Five Ways to Do Real Work

THE REAL THING

EXERCISE19. Six Ways to Get to Work

EXERCISE20. Five Ways to Stay True to the Real Work Focused

A LIFE LIVED

REAL WORK IN A NUTSHELL

Cool Fire

COOLING DOWN

EXERCISE22. Five Ways to Cool Down

REFLECTION IN COOL TRANQUILITY

EXERCISE23. Five Cooling-Down Techniques

THE BIRTH OF COOL

COOL FIRE IN A NUTSHELL

Passing the Torch

A MODERN PARABLE

EXERCISE24. Five Ways to Pass the Torch

A CAUTIONARY TALE

EXERCISE25. Three Ways to Stay Stoked

PASSING THE TORCH IN A NUTSHELL

Epilog

RECOMMENDED READING AND VIEWING

PERMISSIONS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TO OUR READERS

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Stepping Stones, Kyoto Rock Garden.

Photograph by Phil Cousineau, 1986.

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Whilst they as Homer's Iliad in a nut, A world of wonders in one closet shut.

The verse refers to an ancient practice in which scribes copied Homer's great epic in script so tiny all 17,000 verses could fit inside a walnut shell. Soldiers could then carry the book into battle for inspiration, as Alexander is believed to have done when he marched to India.

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