Inspiring Creativity Excerpts

An Anthology of Powerful Insights and Practical Ideas to Guide You to Successful Creating.

In promotional partnership with Rick Benzel, publisher of the CCA Press, Creativity Portal has been given permission to publish the following chapter excerpts from the book Inspiring Creativity: An Anthology of Powerful Insights and Practical Ideas to Guide You to Successful Creating.

The book, with a foreword by Eric Maisel, author of Coaching the Artist Within, and Fearless Creating, contains top-notch advice from 22 professional creativity coaches to ignite your creative potential.

Inspiring Creativity Excerpts

It’s Not What You Create, It’s That You Create
By Kate R. Quinlan
We’ve all heard it. Many of us have muttered it in frustration, or silently surrendered to the anguished thought. “I’m just not very creative.” ...

Creativity is Your Birthright: How to Get Over Feeling You Don't Have "Permission" to Create
By Dave Storer
Several common lines of thought lead many people to the false conclusion that they don’t have the right, or sufficient “permission” to create.

Getting Unstuck: 9 Ways to Escape from Creativity-Halting Goo
By Rick Benzel
Every artist gets stuck from time to time in “creativity-halting goo.” It can happen at any phase of your work: when you’re beginning a project, in the middle, or close to completion.

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