The Coach's Guide to Completing Creative Work

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"This great resource offers the wisdom of experts on the creative process, who share their own challenges in completing creative projects. With clarity and kindness, they explore the characteristic challenges that creatives face and present individualized strategies for completion. This guidance on how to remove blocks and fuel creativity is a major contribution to the coaching field."

Leia Francisco, author of Writing Through Transitions

"This book is a treasure-trove! Packed with ideas and strategies to help creatives with the never-ending challenges of being creative, it provides great tips on how to stay the course, experience the flow, and complete your projects."

Sandra Marinella, author of The Story You Need to Tell

"What creative person has not struggled with seeing a creative project through to completion? Roadblocks, detours, distractions, and psychological upheavals are all par for the course. This book serves as a candle in the dark for those who dare to create and can use the support, insight, and wisdom of fellow travelers on the path."

Eric Teplitz, writer, musician, coach, and host of "The Person You Want to Be" podcast

"If you are someone who starts things but has a hard time finishing them, you are not alone. Don't let your creative dreams go unfulfilled! Let this book inspire and guide you with what it takes to complete your creative work! You will find practical ideas, tips and strategies from others who know how to get things done. If you are a creativity coach, you will find many tools and approaches for helping your clients complete their creative pursuits. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to get what matters done."

Rebecca Kochenderfer, founder, Journaling.com

"The Coach's Guide to Completing Creative Work provides readers with excellent suggestions and approaches to meeting one's creative goals. Discussed are commitment, organization, routines, motivation, and much more. I highly recommend this book to anyone needing that extra push to get to the finish line."

Merle R. Saferstein, author of Living and Leaving My Legacy, Vol. 1

"In the midst of a writing project, this book has helped me more firmly grasp the slippery and ornery nature of the creative process. Wherever you are in your creative journey, Maisel, Monk, and colleagues offer practical insights for meeting the challenges of completion. I promise that this book will fortify your creative practice!"

Ruth Folit, writer

"The Coach's Guide to Completing Creative Work demystifies the difficulty of finishing creative work. Both obstructions and solutions are laid out clearly, simply, personally, and usefully. In an organized and enjoyable manner, a variety of articulate creative people help all of us in the fight against the inner and outer blockages to creative success."

Beth Jacobs, author of A Buddhist Journal

"I've long struggled to make the shift into structure and organization that completion requires. But thanks to this beautifully crafted and emotionally nourishing collection of wisdom coaching, I have strategies galore for my upcoming end stage."

Kathleen Adams, Center for Journal Therapy, author of Journal to the Self and Expressive Writing: Foundations of Practice

"The collaborative writing and editing team of Eric Maisel and Lynda Monk has done it again! If you're an artist or writer who's bumped into the stumbling blocks of procrastination, perfectionism, or other such limiting practices, The Coach's Guide to Completing Creative Work is a creative lifesaver. With more than forty chapters written by coaches, artists and writers, this guide is a cornucopia of ideas, suggestions, advice, and encouragement for creatives of all stripes. This is a book that I need, that I'll use, and that I can't wait to share with others on the creative path."

Judy Reeves, author of A Writer's Book of Days and Wild Women, Wild Voices