Double Your Creativity In 3 Hours: A Guide for Writers and Other Fun-Loving Humans

By Dave Trottier

Invest about 3 hours and double your creativity, break through blocks and fears, understand your writing heart, and launch your writing career.

The handy guide contain clear guidance and creative activities to mentor you on your writing quest. The book contains three “sessions”

1. Discover and liberate your creative self
The nature of creativity; what is it—specifically?
The relationship between imagination and creativity
Find your ideal “creative” state of mind
Get the inner writer out and working for you.

2. Tackle blocks and block fears
Alchemy—turn blocks into stepping stones
Break through fears
What the Sistine Chapel and the movie Psycho have in common
The Great Paradox of Creativity

3. Embark on your creative journey
Find and clarify your creative vision
Be free at last...to create
Create your writing mission statement and quest
Convert your vision into a career

What professionals are saying:

“Inspiring, practical and supremely useful—this book will open your heart and mind to your writing and creative potential.”
—Dan Poynter, author, The Self-Publishing Manual

“Dave writes with obvious respect for writers. He goes deep into the heart and head with advice that leads to success. A first-class book.”
—Lucille S. deView, syndicated columnist and writing coach for major newspapers

“I learned to write from Dave’s books.”
—Donna Davidson, author of award-winning novels Elizabeth’s Gift and Lord Kingsford’s Quest

“A wonderfully helpful guide for anyone who wants to start writing—and keep writing.”
—Stedman Mays, agent, Scribblers House LLC Literary Agency, and editorial director of the GoodShortNovels.com Review

“A great book to help you decide your writing vision, get over your fears, and develop a plan for your career.”
—Christian Writers’ Fellowship

“David's guide is in its spirit generous; it offers its readers creative yet structured advice that should pay off.... It offers a “let’s get right down to it” discussion of creative vision and the writing process. That Trottier is a writer and teacher who cares about helping others comes through.”
—Sheila Bender, Editor of Writing It Real and author of many writing books.

"Read this book, boot up the computer, and get writing. Dave Trottier has the hand-holding/kick in the patootie double-whammy down pat. A great book for beginners and a wonderful refresher for experienced writers. Highly recommended.”
—Kristine L. Franklin, children’s author, novelist, and freelance writer

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dave Trottier
• Release date: Jul 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781885655134

Dave Trottier

Dave Trottier is a successful writer, award-winning teacher, and in-demand writing coach who has helped hundreds of writers break into the writing business.He is the author of The Screenwriter's Bible, The Freelance Writer's Bible, Dr. Format Tells All, A Window in Time, How I Became Perfect, and Double Your Creativity in 3 Hours. He has sold or optioned ten feature-length screenplays and has published hundreds of articles and stories.

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What professionals are saying

Inspiring, practical and supremely useful—this book will open your heart and mind to your writing and creative potential.

-- Dan Poynter, author, The Self-Publishing Manual

Dave writes with obvious respect for writers. He goes deep into the heart and head with advice that leads to success. A first-class book.

-- Lucille S. deView, syndicated columnist and writing coach for major newspapers

I learned to write from Dave’s books.

-- Donna Davidson, author of award-winning novels Elizabeth’s Gift and Lord Kingsford’s Quest

A wonderfully helpful guide for anyone who wants to start writing—and keep writing.

-- Stedman Mays, agent, Scribblers House LLC Literary Agency

A great book to help you decide your writing vision, get over your fears, and develop a plan for your career.

-- Christian Writers’ Fellowship

David's guide is in its spirit generous; it offers its readers creative yet structured advice that should pay off.... It offers a let’s get right down to it discussion of creative vision and the writing process. That Trottier is a writer and teacher who cares about helping others comes through.

-- Sheila Bender, Editor of Writing It Real and author of many writing books.

Read this book, boot up the computer, and get writing. Dave Trottier has the hand-holding/kick in the patootie double-whammy down pat. A great book for beginners and a wonderful refresher for experienced writers. Highly recommended.

-- Kristine L. Franklin, children’s author, novelist, and freelance writer

Double Your Creativity in 3 Hours:

A Guide for Writers and Other Fun-Loving Humans

Dave Trottier

Copyright © 2014 by David Robert Trottier

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ISBN: 978-1-885655-13-4

Cover design by Marsha Trottier

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

First Session: Discover and Liberate Your Creative Self

Second Session: Tackle Blocks and Block Fears

Third Session: Embark on Your Creative Journey

Books and Websites by Dave Trottier

Introduction

This creativity course contains three sessions or chapters. It will take you less than an hour to read each of the three. However, I encourage you to take time to reflect on your reading and complete the creative activities that appeal to you.

Find a relaxing place where you won’t be distracted or interrupted, and enjoy the creative process. There will be some overlap in topics to reinforce principles. You may be able to complete all three sessions in one creative period, or you might want to do a session a day for three days, or even a session a week. It’s totally up to you.

You will benefit from doing the activities. Although you may not need a second set of eyes on your creative work, feedback is available. If interested, just email me and I’ll let you know the procedure and cost.

Please visit me at keepwriting.com or at my personal blog, keepliving.com.

First Session: Discover and Liberate Your Creative Self

Is your inner child trying to get out and create?

Close your eyes for just a few moments and recall one or two highlights of your childhood—perhaps a moment of great happiness or discovery or insight. Feel again your emotions. Experience your senses. Be that child…

…And recall the spontaneity of that time. Remember all the fun you had?

Writing should be fun!

Let’s have fun

While on the playground or in the park, you were completely involved in the moment. Your imagination ran wild. You were free to accept new possibilities beyond the ordinary and beyond the conventional.

You were open, relaxed, and playful. And that’s how writing should be, at least most of the time.

Studies demonstrate that you are most creative when you are less purposeful, and when you are open, relaxed, and playful. Writing is a little like playing pretend. In fact, your creativity—to some degree—corresponds to your ability to play.

You might wonder if I am referring to the right hemisphere of the brain—you know, the creative, intuitive side of the brain. I am in part, but I’m also referring to your inner creative self—the heart.

As