Conquering Writer's Block and Summoning Inspiration
Learn to Nurture a Lifestyle of Creativity
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Sonja Field
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K.M. Weiland
About this listen
Position yourself to live an inspired life and send the dreaded writer's block packing.
Inspiration is a slippery thing at the best of times. But as a writer, you can't afford to wait around on Madam Muse's goodwill. In this encouraging audiobook, award-winning author K.M. Weiland shows you how to nurture creativity and put it at your summons, rather than the other way around. After listening to this book, you will be able to:
- Build a lifestyle that encourages inspiration
- Say goodbye to destructive guilt over "wasting" time on creative endeavors
- Discover why inspiration isn't so much a feeling as an act of will
- Understand what to do when your best-laid writing plans go awry
- Use your non-writing time to boost your creative energy
- Apply specific tips to prevent and combat writer's block
- Instill habits for improving your efficiency and commitment as an author
Nurture a lifestyle of creativity that will keep your fingers flying over the keyboard!
©2014 K.M. Weiland (P)2015 K.M. WeilandListeners also enjoyed...
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As the creator of Life Designs, Inc., Martha Beck has helped hundreds of clients find their own North Stars and figure out how to fulfill their potential and create joyful lives through her lectures, seminars, and one-on-one counseling. In this book she shares her step-by-step program that will guide you to fulfill your own potential.
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Narration not for me
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Right now, over 100 million Americans secretly feel frustrated and bored with their lives. If you've come to regard yourself as your own worst enemy; if you constantly daydream and wonder, "Is this all there is?"; if you have a tendency, when asked how you're doing, to just say "Fine," you may be one of them. If this sounds familiar, there's clearly something missing from your life. This book will help you discover what it is, and how to win it back.
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STOP and buy The Five Second Rule instead.
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Process
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Walking in This World picks up where Julia Cameron's best-selling book on the creative process, The Artist's Way, left off to present readers with a second course, part two in an amazing journey toward discovering our human potential. Full of valuable new strategies and techniques for breaking through difficult creative ground, this is the "intermediate level" of the Artist's Way program.
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- Amber
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Food for thought about getting back on track
Not a writing manual as such but an organized musing on how to keep writing.
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- Aaron
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Encouraging
I found this book to be more encouraging than informative. It manages to serves it's intent well.
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Uplifting
Exactly what I needed. I listen to this audiobook frequently, any time I need a boost of encouragement, and it does the trick without fail.
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- Meredith
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Encouragement for writers
This book isn't so much a how-to-come-up-with-ideas, as it is about cultivating a lifestyle of creativity, inspiration, determination, and recognizing the value of your art.
It's at once an honest look at the hard reality of writing life, and an encouragement to struggling writers who just don't know how to go on in their stories. (And she also reassures you that it's okay to dedicate time to this, and validates writing as a legitimate pursuit, no matter what others may tell you.)
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- TB1
- 07-22-16
Refreshing
I enjoyed this book for its clear, refreshing take on writing. I especially liked the healthy approach and reminder to remember the joy and ecstacy even when that is not where you are.
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- DD
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Excellent narration and writing
Very impressed with the author. Made me want to read her books. Very inspirational. Thank you K M Weiland
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- Roland Denzel
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Inspiring!
Great, inspiring info for anyone struggling with writer's block, whether you believe it exists or not 🙄
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- Violette
- 12-19-24
Great advice!
Practical advice and great tips for banishing writer's block. I truly enjoyed the book. Useful and has earned a place in my favorites.
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- A. E. Murray
- 03-09-16
Want to drop everything to write now
I listened to this while I was at work, numbingly staring at numbers on a computer screen, and finished just now while doing much neglected yard work on the first nice day of the new year. And while doing both tasks, it was so difficult to not drop my responsibilities to run inside to work on my long thought out story idea. This is the second writing book I have listened to by KM Weiland (and Sonja Field). Both were well done and inspiring! This one though I feel really has given me some good tips to stop planning, stop making excuses and procrastinating, and stop staring at that pestering blinking cursor on the screen. I like the tip about not using a word count, but a set amount of time each day to write. 30 minutes sounds a lot more doable than 1000 words. And if you are really stumped to go pick up a random book, pick a random sentence and use that to get the words flowing again. I can hardly wait to start writing again. Thank you!
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- Zachary M.
- 12-21-17
Encouraging and inherently practical
The author provides tangible and practical solutions to the problems that plague all writers. Fantastic.
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