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    Creative Toolbox: 25 different ways to spark your imagination and transform your life and work
    Creative Toolbox: 25 different ways to spark your imagination and transform your life and work
    Creative Toolbox: 25 different ways to spark your imagination and transform your life and work
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    Creative Toolbox: 25 different ways to spark your imagination and transform your life and work

    By Jocelyn Paige Kelly

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    Looking for inspiration? The Creative Toolbox is a series of inspirational works aimed at getting you to rethink your life and how you see the world creatively. Topics range in ideas from vulnerability to humor to buoyancy and even spunk. Dive in and ride anywhere and see if some of the exercises bring forth new work or ideas. There are no limits to your imagination.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJocelyn Paige Kelly
    Release dateJun 4, 2014
    ISBN9781310102011
    Creative Toolbox: 25 different ways to spark your imagination and transform your life and work
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    Jocelyn Paige Kelly

    I’m a graduate of the intensive six-week Science Fiction and Fantasy program, Clarion West. My short stories and poems have appeared in Evergreen Review, Forge Journal, Cadillac Cicatrix, Willard & Maple, Sanskrit, Dos Passos Review, Louisiana Review and Red Wheelbarrow. All of my work focuses on the use of imagination and altered states while crossing genre lines between realism and magical realism. I use my wry sense of humor to bring the best out of my characters as well as the people I interact with in my daily life. For three years I lived in Wilmington, North Carolina where I worked up a storm writing a novel about hurricanes. Last year I moved back to my native Vegas with the hopes of taking part of the creative magic in this vibrant city. Recently, I started a literary magazine based in Las Vegas named Helen. My work as a certified creativity coach is focused on helping others in realizing their creative life too.

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      Book preview

      Creative Toolbox - Jocelyn Paige Kelly

      Creative Toolbox:

      25 different ways to spark your imagination

      and transform your life and work

      Jocelyn Paige Kelly

      Published by Realizing Your Creative Life

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Jocelyn Paige Kelly

      Disclaimer

      This is a work of creative nonfiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Blue pencil with doodles image from tanewpix, courtesy of Shutterstock

      Book design and production by Jocelyn Paige Kelly

      Realizing Your Creative Life

      All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2014

      Preface

      This free ebook is put together from a series of blog posts from Realizing Your Creative Life, a creativity coaching practice run by certified creativity coach Jocelyn Paige Kelly.

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to Melissa Weikel who encourages me everyday and inspired me to move forward with my life.

      The making of the original posts from this book was inspired a lot by Gretchen Miller and her ongoing work and inspiration with the Art Therapy Alliance.

      I also want to acknowledge and thank the following people for their continued support of my creative endeavors: Jeni Miller, Eileen Bordy, Jill Singer, Kari O’Connor, Beverly Down, Dolly Muzer, Leilani Square, Lilah Wild, Grace Mendez, Corie Weaver, Deb Lund, Erin Bybee Belanger, Barbara Olsson, Lori Howard, Chris Rosepapa, Roz Clarke, Sarah King, Cordell McCurdy, Claudio Olivos, Stephanie Anderson Ladd, Tracy Guzeman and Diane Latimer.

      Contents

      Disclaimer

      Preface

      Dedication

      How to Use this Book

      Vulnerability

      Possibilities

      Perseverance

      Zeal

      Incubation

      Uncertainty

      Rituals

      Spontaneity

      Paradox

      Deep Listening

      I don’t know

      Humor

      Unplug

      Resistance

      Kindness

      Community

      Rebirth

      Hope

      Nerve

      Spunk

      Buoyancy

      Collaboration

      Refresh

      Intent

      Yes!

      About the Author

      How to Use this Book

      This book was compiled together from a series of ongoing blog posts about creativity tools. They are aimed for use in your life as well as with your creativity.

      Some of them will seem familiar as they are pretty standard and accepted ideas among those who work with creativity, but some will seem unconventional or challenge your perception. In order to make this book more useful, I’ve added more exercises at the end of several tools and have expanded some of the original written materials. Some information that was dependent on web links have been omitted.

      I’ve arranged this book so it can be read in an order that I feel it will be best received. However, I think this book is best used sporadically

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