What They Don’t Teach You About Your Creative Journey : 10 Steps and the Roadmap to Take Your Big Ideas From Spark to Finish

What They Don’t Teach You About Your Creative Journey is a book of strategies to spark, tackle and complete projects with personal value. It’s a guide through the process of completing creative and entrepreneurial projects, managing the (entirely predictable) emotional challenges and solutions along the way.You may want to write a novel, a memoir or a song. But your goals don’t need to be artistic. You may want to start a business, advance a theory, launch a movement, save a species, or learn how to make ceramic pots on a wheel.When it comes to projects with personal meaning, doubts and delays, false starts and U-turns — not to mention pure existential panic — are the “hard part.” But ways around —or through —the emotional thickets tend to be left out of straightforward how-to guides.There’s a predictable, and sometimes painful, pattern for projects imbued with personal meaning. This book maps ten distinct stages (along with a “before” state) you’ll likely encounter. It embeds the map with waystations – directions on how to gather your forces to get through and move through the hard parts with more confidence.While your project is yours, you don’t have to be alone in executing it. This book is a guide, companion and ally. Quickly diagnose what stage you’re (stuck) in, then jump into practical advice and inspiration focused on supporting you at this very moment. With a map to decipher your specific starts and stalls, you’ll make real progress.Increase your ability to express the work that matters to you, with more humor, patience, efficiency, courage and joy. Discover, take on, and complete the vital projects, large and small, that most truly add up to your “life’s work.”