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David V. Stewart
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David V. Stewart
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What if I told you that the biggest impediment to mastery of your craft is not lack of time, desire, or even talent, but your creative process itself? What if I told you that the main difference between you and Bach or any master of the past, is how you approach your art, not some inborn genius you think you don’t possess?
Designed for all artists, writers, and musicians, The Keys to Prolific Creativity is a no-fluff guide to organizing your priorities, managing your growth, and designing a creative process that will help you achieve the creative output you have always desired.
Have you always wanted to write a book? Record an album? How about create a graphic novel? Lots of people have a burning passion for the art they want to create and a great store of talent to achieve it, yet find themselves empty-handed after years of effort.
The truth is that technical knowledge of your field is only half the battle. The other half is knowing how to create consistently over the long term, how to design your own work schedule and methods, and then, learning how to align those with your goals to finish your project and the next one!
David V. Stewart is an author, musician, and YouTuber, who has, in the last four years, written and published 11 fiction books (and designed the covers of all of them), one album, and hundreds of informative videos on writing, publishing, classical guitar, and film criticism. He did this while growing his family and working full time. In fact, almost everything was produced on one to two hours of work per day.
The Keys to Prolific Creativity represents the distillation of the nine principles he used to design his creative process across multiple realms of practice to deliver his creative products to market in a timely manner, while maintaining high standards.
Buy it today and unlock your inner master!
©2020 David V. Stewart (P)2020 David V. StewartListeners also enjoyed...
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This book challenged some of my beliefs concerning creativity and productivity and led me to reflect on my creative process and address certain bad habits of mine. Also, the author reads his material well; his voice and cadences are well-suited to reading material of this sort. I deducted one star from the “Performance” category only because I found certain aspects of the recording to be distracting, most notably a quiet but perceptible clicking noise that recurs throughout the audiobook, presumably at the beginning or end of takes. That is a minor quibble, though, and should not dissuade you from purchasing the audiobook.
I would recommend this book to anyone wishing to evaluate the efficacy of their creative processes and habits. As of writing this review, the author has posted chapters from this audiobook on his YouTube channel. You can check out some early chapters there to get a sense of what the book is like. Indeed, listening to the early chapters of the book was what prompted me to purchase the audiobook here on Audible.
Insightful and Thought-Provoking; Helped Me Address Certain Bad Habits of Mine
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Short, Insightful, & Unpretentious
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David does great job as both writer and the narrator. Easy and fun listening!
Looking forward to his future audio books.
Amazing!
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