Creative Flow: 40 Prescriptions for Tapping Your Creative Impulses
A manual of new and helpful ways to best express your creativity, break through creative blocks, and improve your flow.

For fans of The Artist's Way and Steal Like an Artist, this colorful little manual solves a common problem—"Why can't I be as creative as I want to? Why can't I make better art and craft work?"

Readers begin with a questionnaire "What Type of Creative Are You?," and then receive advice tailored to their answer. Contains 40 prescriptions for boosting creativity including

  • Brainwriting (making a to-do list, drawing an idea sketch, and recording your ideas to get started)
  • Bullet Journal (a calendar-based plan of action),
  • Idea Box (collecting things that inspire you)
  • Arrange a Rendezvous with Yourself (set a date and time for tasks you want to complete)
  • Broaden Your Horizons (by attending new classes, films, plays, conferences, festivals, exhibits, concerts, etc. for inspiration)
  • 15 first-aid tips for overcoming blocks

Also includes 15 tips for overcoming creative blocks— including Be Brave & Jump, Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, There's No Such Thing as Perfection, Turn Negatives into Positives, etc.

Along with author Roberta Bergmann's spot-on guidance, every spread combines photos, the helpful work of successful artists worldwide to learn from, insights, hashtags to check out, and more. Using very attractive and innovative solutions, these full-color pages include new and helpful ways readers can best express their creativity.


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Creative Flow: 40 Prescriptions for Tapping Your Creative Impulses
A manual of new and helpful ways to best express your creativity, break through creative blocks, and improve your flow.

For fans of The Artist's Way and Steal Like an Artist, this colorful little manual solves a common problem—"Why can't I be as creative as I want to? Why can't I make better art and craft work?"

Readers begin with a questionnaire "What Type of Creative Are You?," and then receive advice tailored to their answer. Contains 40 prescriptions for boosting creativity including

  • Brainwriting (making a to-do list, drawing an idea sketch, and recording your ideas to get started)
  • Bullet Journal (a calendar-based plan of action),
  • Idea Box (collecting things that inspire you)
  • Arrange a Rendezvous with Yourself (set a date and time for tasks you want to complete)
  • Broaden Your Horizons (by attending new classes, films, plays, conferences, festivals, exhibits, concerts, etc. for inspiration)
  • 15 first-aid tips for overcoming blocks

Also includes 15 tips for overcoming creative blocks— including Be Brave & Jump, Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, There's No Such Thing as Perfection, Turn Negatives into Positives, etc.

Along with author Roberta Bergmann's spot-on guidance, every spread combines photos, the helpful work of successful artists worldwide to learn from, insights, hashtags to check out, and more. Using very attractive and innovative solutions, these full-color pages include new and helpful ways readers can best express their creativity.


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Creative Flow: 40 Prescriptions for Tapping Your Creative Impulses

Creative Flow: 40 Prescriptions for Tapping Your Creative Impulses

by Roberta Bergmann
Creative Flow: 40 Prescriptions for Tapping Your Creative Impulses

Creative Flow: 40 Prescriptions for Tapping Your Creative Impulses

by Roberta Bergmann

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Overview

A manual of new and helpful ways to best express your creativity, break through creative blocks, and improve your flow.

For fans of The Artist's Way and Steal Like an Artist, this colorful little manual solves a common problem—"Why can't I be as creative as I want to? Why can't I make better art and craft work?"

Readers begin with a questionnaire "What Type of Creative Are You?," and then receive advice tailored to their answer. Contains 40 prescriptions for boosting creativity including

  • Brainwriting (making a to-do list, drawing an idea sketch, and recording your ideas to get started)
  • Bullet Journal (a calendar-based plan of action),
  • Idea Box (collecting things that inspire you)
  • Arrange a Rendezvous with Yourself (set a date and time for tasks you want to complete)
  • Broaden Your Horizons (by attending new classes, films, plays, conferences, festivals, exhibits, concerts, etc. for inspiration)
  • 15 first-aid tips for overcoming blocks

Also includes 15 tips for overcoming creative blocks— including Be Brave & Jump, Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, There's No Such Thing as Perfection, Turn Negatives into Positives, etc.

Along with author Roberta Bergmann's spot-on guidance, every spread combines photos, the helpful work of successful artists worldwide to learn from, insights, hashtags to check out, and more. Using very attractive and innovative solutions, these full-color pages include new and helpful ways readers can best express their creativity.



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780764363085
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date: 09/27/2022
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 1,056,976
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Roberta Bergmann (Braunschweig, Germany) is a freelance artist, illustrator, and book designer. With more than 15 years as a creative professional, she is the author of several books published in Europe, including The Basics of Design. www.robertabergmann.de

Table of Contents

ForewordWhom Is this Book for? 8

What is Creativity? A Brief Introduction 10

Questionnaire about Creative Types 14

Which Creative and Working Type Are You? 16

How to Start 22

1. Status Quo 24

2. The Place 25

3. Workplace 26

4. The Battle Plan 26

5. Distractions 27

6. Get Started 27

40 Prescriptions 28

No. 1 Just Get Started 30

No. 2 Or Do You Prefer to Plan? 32

No. 3 Finding the Right Theme 34

No. 4 Stash of Materials: Treasure Hoards 38

No. 5 Ask Your Way through Your Future Project 40

No. 6 Act Like a Child 42

No. 7 Think in the Opposite Way 44

No. 8 Sources of Inspiration 46

No. 9 Rendezvous with Yourself 48

No. 10 Chaos! 50

No. 11 Recombine Things 52

No. 12 Riches of Variation 54

No. 13 Use Your Subconscious 56

No. 14 Try It Out Mathematically 58

No. 15 Provoke, Rebel: Time for Wild Ideas! 60

No. 16 Change Your Perspective 62

No. 17 Hermit or Team Player? 64

No. 18 Things Do Happen by Chance 66

No. 19 Hang in There, Keep Going! 68

No. 20 And Now: Take a Break! 70

No. 21 Sparring Partner 72

No. 22 Be Interdisciplinary 74

No. 23 Take the Elevator 76

No. 24 Practice, Practice, Practice 78

No. 25 Tell Stories 80

No. 26 No Dogmatism, Please! 82

No. 27 Experiment 84

No. 28 Broadening your Horizons 86

No. 29 Improvise 88

No. 30 Keep It Simple 90

No. 31 Intuition or: the First Idea 92

No. 32 Selective Perception 94

No. 33 Visualize Ideas 96

No. 34 Role Models & Guiding Figures 98

No. 35 Research Spirit & Inventive Spirit 100

No. 36 Humor 102

No. 37 Get Yourself Moving 104

No. 38 Surrealism 106

No. 39 Find Analogies 108

No. 40 Thinking Outside the Box 110

First Aid for Blocking 112

Recognizing & Analyzing Blocks 114

No. 1 Be Brave, Jump In 116

No. 2 Get Out of Your Comfort Zone 118

No. 3 The Right Timing

No. 4 There's No Such Thing as Perfection! 122

No. 5 Find Rituals 124

No. 6 Turn Negative into Positive 126

No. 7 Willpower, Perseverance & Continuity 128

No. 8 Support 130

No. 9 Set Boundaries 132

No. 10 Time Out for Body and Spirit 134

No. 11 Overcome Obstacles 138

No. 12 A Restart 140

No. 13 Appreciate Your Worth 142

No. 14 Classify Criticism Objectively 144

No. 15 Stop! Pull the Emergency Brake 146

Appendix 148

Thanks! 150

Recommended Reading 151

List of Sources and List of Images 152

Index of Key Words 157

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