Make It Mighty Ugly: Exercises & Advice for Getting Creative Even When It Ain't Pretty

Author: Werker, Kim Piper

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Illustrated

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• Make It Mighty Ugly: Exercises & Advice for Getting Creative Even When It Ain't Pretty

Number Of Pages: 240

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Fans of DIY projects and crafts will conquer their fear of failure and create their own masterpieces using this fun and inspiring handbook. Get Crafty. Make Great Stuff. Be Creative! The number one fear of all creative types—crafters, DIYers, makers, artists—is that failure lurks right around the corner. Crafty blogger and creativity guru Kim Piper Werker urges everyone to pick up their pen or paintbrush or scissors and make something mighty ugly: get that “failure” out of the way. This friendly book offers up a multi-pronged approach to overcoming creative fears through inspiring essays and anecdotes, interviews, exercises and prompts, and sage advice from all over the creative spectrum to help individuals slay their creative demons.

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For every person who produces creative works there are legions who do not because of their fear of failing or of producing

"bad" work. Werker ( Crochet Me ) encourages everyone to push through that fear and just go ahead and make something, no matter how it turns out. Divided into three parts:

"name the demons,"

"make stuff," and

"keep on making stuff," the book highlights the most common creative demons and discusses how to move beyond them in an engaging and friendly manner. The author uses prompts, exercises, and her own and others' personal experiences to show that creativity does not have to be beautiful; in fact, it can be mighty ugly. VERDICT Werker provides a thoughtful look at the internal voices that keep people from expressing their creativity in a book that will work well beyond the crafting world; anyone needing to identify their own blocks will find this inspiring title useful in their own lives. Library Journal Make It Mighty Ugly: Exercises and Advice for Getting Creative Even When It Ain't Pretty, by Kim Werker, has us aim directly for failure so we can get it over with. Upbeat without being saccharine, Kim invites us to identify our personal monsters and listen to what they have to say in a series of exercises designed to loosen up our creative muscles. Even if you think you don't have any creative blocks, you may find the exercises to be a little scary. You didn't think there was a monster under your bed...until you really looked, and found one. The author is up front about this, and says you are on the right track if you are feeling anxious when you start to look. Sprinkled throughout the book are recommendations for additional material, including links to projects and talks, as well as anecdotes and quotes from people Kim interviewed about their creative demons. Knitty.com So you want to live a more passion-filled, pur­pose­ful and cre­ative life...rii­i­ight after you watch that Sein­feld re-run, orga­nize your Tup­per­ware drawer, talk to your cat Pro­fes­sor Snug­gles, and water your cac­tus plant. Sound famil­iar? The anx­i­ety over start­ing a cre­ative project and mak­ing it per­fect can be so over­whelm­ing at times that we’d rather do almost any­thing else. Solu­tion? Do it—and make it ugly. In fact, Make it Mighty Ugly says Kim Piper Werker, the author behind the moti­vat­ing hand­book for van­quish­ing cre­ative demons. Sad Mag Even if you’re living your passion at a full time job and looking for a guide to help you become a

"creative person" this book is absolutely worth the buy. . .you don’t have to have been a girl scout with a sewing machine to be creative! And Make It Mighty Ugly teaches readers how to do just that. How to embrace your inner child who wasn’t afraid to make ugly things (and mistakes) and create. Hands Occupied The Mighty Ugly project is about making things that are ugly on purpose,

"in a continuing effort to challenge our definitions, perceptions, and expectations of failure." Creator Kim Werker has a whole book coming out on the subject in 2014, if you’re moved to make some of your own (very liberating) failure-successes. BuzzFeed  If you are creative, you need this book. If you want to be creative? Y...

EAN: 9781570619144

Release Date: 26-08-2014

Languages: English

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp.Has a remainder mark. Paperback Used - Like New Ships fast! 2014Illustrated

Item Condition: UsedLikeNew

Binding: Paperback