Just about every creative I’ve ever coached has had a very sharp and active Inner Critic. And you know what? That’s a good thing. If you find yourself resisting this idea, maybe because you know …
An Easy Way out of Writer’s Block
Have you ever got yourself tied up in knots while working on an important piece of writing? You spend ages staring at the screen, writing, deleting and rewriting, over and over again. The harder …
Get the Inner Critic off Your Back with These Two Little Words
Have you ever started work on a big creative project and found yourself paralysed by listening to the voice of your Inner Critic, giving you all the reasons you should give up? Who do you think you …
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Tyler Hobbs: an Artist Who Paints with Code
This week's guest on The 21st Century Creative podcast is Tyler Hobbs, a artist who creates stunning images by writing a computer program to generate each new artwork. A few months ago I was …
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Your Free Copy of My New Book: 21 Insights for 21st Century Creatives
Today I have a gift for you - my new book, 21 Insights for 21st Century Creatives. You can pick it up for free from Amazon or other bookstores. So what's the book about? It's a compilation …
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Poetry as Discovery with Mimi Khalvati
This week’s guest on The 21st Century Creative podcast is Mimi Khalvati, one of the foremost poets currently writing in the UK. Mimi was born in Tehran, Iran and grew up on the Isle of Wight …
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Steven Pressfield on Truth and Fiction
This week's guest on the 21st Century Creative Podcast is Steven Pressfield, author of the creativity classic The War of Art and a string of other bestselling fiction and nonfiction books. In …
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My new book: Motivation for Creative People
After 18 months, four drafts and countless cups of coffee, my new book Motivation for Creative People is finally complete. You can pick up the ebook edition from Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & …
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Kabuki: Lessons from 400 Years of Creative Tradition
Kabuki star Ebizo Ichikawa XI in action, from Ebizo's YouTube channel Last Christmas I visited the Kabuki-za theater in Tokyo to experience kabuki—one of Japan's traditional forms of drama, dating …
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