Meditations I: Thoughts, encouragement, and the occasional swift kick for any creative person

By Eric Pulsifer

Creative? Got that inner fire and you don't know what to do about it? Stuck? Don't know where to start? Don't know what to do next?

Eric Pulsifer, a writer/musician who spent years trying to evade his gifts, learned a few things the hard way about the creative process and shares his observations in a series of short, to-the-point meditations.

It's all there. The uncertainty. The opposition. The blood all over the typewriter. The allure of the couch. The siren song of those who don't want you to make any progress. And a little bit of perspective.

If you write, play music, engage in any arts, start new businesses, do any brain work, or deal with ideas in any form, this book could be the encouragement or the swift kick you may need to push things to the next level.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eric Pulsifer
• Release date: Jul 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311829733

Eric Pulsifer

Eric Pulsifer, a recovering journalist with more than a decade in the business and two more decades of screwing off, completed his first book in 2012. He liked it so much that even a line of road pylons couldn't stop him now.While he works in several genres, his fiction leans more toward mystery/thrillers with a caffeinated mix of realism, imagination, and a bit of a dark edge.His novels Damage Control and Desert Vendetta have likable characters, realistic settings, and the obligatory dead body or three.His newest work, The Beta Testers, takes an even darker apocalyptic turn in a high-tech setting.None of his fiction can be called autobiographical, but he taps his experiences as a professional musician (1986--), family caregiver (2014--) and taxi driver (1997-2007) to add color to his stories.His nonfiction work touches on the creative side and survival as a writer and musician. His first novel, B.I.C.* Cartel (*Butt In Chair) also concentrates on this creative theme.A respected musician, he currently plays harmonica with several bands in Southern California, ranging from bluegrass to jazz to gospel. A perennial student of musicianship and theory, he shares his ideas in Playing Harmonica Like A Real Musician.While he lives in the Los Angeles area, he calls Charleston, South Carolina home. When not writing or playing music, he can be found on a hiking trail with his dog or tearing apart another computer and wondering how it all goes back together.

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