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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.
"Phil Cousineau sacks the forest caves of Ali Baba to reveal the art treasures of the globe. He flips us back to a tearoom chat with Samuel Johnson and into the sculpture studio of Barbara Hepworth. Yogi Berra and Gaston Bachelard dream and instruct us through the voyage of the word and imagination. He playfully turns our eye to the theogony of creative gods, spills their secrets, invites us to rise. Back on earth, with wisdom and sensuous generosity, he guides us through classical and pop culture. Read Phil. Note a thousand windows open and beyond lies your singular path." —Willis Barnstone, author of The Gnostic Bible
"This lovely and important book should greatly help creative people in the way they practice their art, whether it is writing, painting, sculpting or dancing, by showing them how to keep alive the fire of their imagination." —Jean Erdman Campbell, dancer and choreographer
"Phil Cousineau, the quintessential Renaissance Man of the new millennium, has assembled a high octane blend from the great minds throughout the ages which will fill your creative tank with passion, ideas and inspiration so you can explore who you are and share it with the world. As Neil Young sings, 'Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup.' Enjoy and create!" —Jeff "The Dude" Dowd