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Stop Messing Around and Make Something
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Amie McNee
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Amie McNee
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From Amie McNee, the voice behind Inspired to Write, a manifesto on the vital, human importance of creating, with guidance for all artists in all endeavors, whether they're starting their journey or seeking a fresh perspective.
In We Need Your Art, Amie McNee calls artists and aspiring artists of all kinds to do the work they’re meant to do: create.
Using her own experiences as a novelist and the inspiration she’s shared as a creative coach, Amie guides you on why we need your art and how you can make it happen—starting with a two-week reset plan to help you kick-start your creative habit. This isn’t about writing your great novel in a month or painting a masterpiece in a flurry of inspiration. Rather, this process is about practicing small, sustainable creative steps every day over time—five hundred words of writing each day, a pencil sketch every evening—so that you avoid burnout, produce consistent, reliable content on your own terms, and begin to see yourself as an artist.
With frank and empowering conversations on the many issues creatives face, including impostor syndrome, perfectionism, procrastination, and the inner critic, as well as invitations to coronate yourself and celebrate your ambition, Amie provides the framework and encouragement you need to begin to take your art seriously. Each chapter also includes journal prompts that help you apply what you have learned to your new life.
We Need Your Art is a revolutionary reprogramming of everything we have been taught and told about being a creative, removing the shame and fear we may feel at dubbing ourselves artists and inviting us to create proudly, with celebration. This book is a warm hug, a pep talk, the wise teacher you always wanted, the loving parent you needed, and the fire in your belly that you need to get roaring.
©2025 Amie McNee (P)2025 Penguin AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
“A manifesto for anyone who wants to make art of any kind. A book against insecurity and the self-doubt that can stop us doing the thing we love. An empowering read and a battle cry for the creative spirit. A joy.”—Matt Haig, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library and The Life Impossible
“A wake-up call for anyone stuck on the sidelines of their creativity. We Need Your Art is the book you need to stop procrastinating and overthinking and start doing and creating.”—Jay Shetty, global bestselling author and award-winning podcast host of On Purpose
“With a voice of humor and compassion, Amie McNee speaks directly to the artist’s heart. This book doesn’t shy away from hard truths, revealing the often unspoken challenges artists face. We Need Your Art is both a comfort and a call to action.”—Whitney Hanson, author of Home and Harmony
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If you are an artist, you need to make your art. That's not an overstatement - it's a fact; if you stop doing your creative work, your quality of life is diminished. But what do you do when life gets in the way? In this down-to-earth handbook, experienced artist coach Beth Pickens offers practical advice for developing a lasting and meaningful artistic practice in the face of life's inevitable obstacles and distractions. This thoughtful volume suggests creative ways to address the challenges all artists must overcome.
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Omg is it preachy
- By Amazon Customer on 02-17-22
By: Beth Pickens
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Your Brain on Art
- How the Arts Transform Us
- By: Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross
- Narrated by: Ellyn Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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What is art? Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to our lives.
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Practical, even utilitarian ways of leveraging art
- By Lucy A. Pithecus on 04-07-23
By: Susan Magsamen, and others
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The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy
- How to Be Creative, Show Your Work, and Keep Going
- By: Austin Kleon
- Narrated by: Austin Kleon
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Read by then author, this is an audio compilation of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work and Keep Going, the bestselling and transformative series on how to unlock your creativity, find community and an audience in the digital age, and stay focused, creative and true to yourself—for life. Includes full text from Steal Like an Artist, on the ten things nobody ever told you about being creative; Show Your Work, on how to take that critical next step on a creative journey; and Keep Going, for anyone trying to sustain a productive life.
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A boring non focus ramble
- By Kenneth Noel on 06-07-21
By: Austin Kleon
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Art, Inc.
- The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist
- By: Lisa Congdon, Meg Mateo Ilasco - editor, Jonathan Field - foreword
- Narrated by: Lisa Congdon
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art - through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including industry advice from such successful art-world pros as Nikki McClure, Mark Hearld, Paula Scher, and more, Art, Inc. will equip you with the tools - and the confidence - to turn your passion into a profitable business.
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Tell me something I didn't know...
- By Indiana Mike on 01-10-20
By: Lisa Congdon, and others
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How to Be an Artist
- By: Jerry Saltz
- Narrated by: Jerry Saltz
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz, one of the art world’s most celebrated and passionate voices, offers an indispensable handbook for creative people of all kinds. From the first sparks of inspiration - and how to pursue them without giving in to self-doubt - Saltz offers invaluable insight into what really matters to emerging artists: originality, persistence, a balance between knowledge and intuition, and that most precious of qualities, self-belief.
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Terrible Book Waste of Money
- By Classic on 04-22-20
By: Jerry Saltz
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Tiny Experiments
- How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
- By: Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- Narrated by: Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Life isn’t linear, and yet we try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college degrees, ten-year career plans, thirty-year mortgages. What if instead we approached life as a giant playground for experimentation? Based on ancestral philosophy and the latest scientific research, Tiny Experiments provides a desperately needed reframing: Uncertainty can be a state of expanded possibility and a space for metamorphosis. Neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff reveals that all you need is an experimental mindset to turn challenges into self-discovery and doubt into opportunity.
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A Refreshing Take on Growth and Creativity!
- By Naya on 03-05-25
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The Creative Cure
- How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life
- By: Jacob Nordby
- Narrated by: Jacob Nordby
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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The Creative Cure is a call for a revolution, fostering change where all change must begin: within. This internal change will allow you to express your own creative gifts, cultivate happiness, and experience the unique feeling of fulfillment that only a creative practice can offer. Packed with powerful, transformative exercises, this book is the medicine you need to find and reinvigorate your creative soul.
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An unexpected surprise
- By Beky on 08-24-21
By: Jacob Nordby
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Art/Work
- Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
- By: Heather Darcy Bhandari, Jonathan Melber
- Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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In this revised and updated edition, Bhandari and Melber show artists how to tackle a host of new challenges. How do you diversify income streams to sustain a healthy art practice? How can you find an alternative to the gallery system? How do you review a license agreement? What are digital marketing best practices? An important resource for gallerists, dealers, art consultants, artist-oriented organizations, and artists alike, Art/Work is the resource that all creative entrepreneurs in the art world turn to for advice.
By: Heather Darcy Bhandari, and others
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All the Way to the River
- Love, Loss, and Liberation
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 13 hrs
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In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe. What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?
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Your Unconscious Is Showing
- Take Control of Your Life with the 12 Steps of Consciousness
- By: Dr. Courtney Tracy
- Narrated by: Dr. Courtney Tracy
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Half psychology textbook written by your best friend (who’s also a therapist), half comprehensive guide brimming with actionable insights for engaging with our unconscious positively and productively, Your Unconscious Is Showing is here to help us accept what we can’t control, courageously change what we can, and wisely know the difference.
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Do the Work
- By: Steven Pressfield
- Narrated by: Steven Pressfield
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but never finished? Would you like to do work that matters, but don't know where to start?The answer is Do the Work, a manifesto by best-selling author Steven Pressfield, that will show you that it’s not about better ideas, it’s about actually doing the work. Do the Work is a weapon against Resistance - a tool that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door.
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Powerhouse of Motivation
- By Sara on 08-02-14
AMIE UNDERSTANDS
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Amazing book for anyone on a creative journey
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I’ve already told my mom, my sister and at least three other people they need to read this book, I’ve heard her speak live and have been waiting for the book to come out so I could relive being in her magic!
I’m positive this is a book. I will read over and over again. The questions and prompts are beautiful, insightful, and helpful and most importantly it’s just fun as well!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ART AMIE.
REFRESHING & Delightful!
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Understood
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Very encouraging!
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Amie, you should be celebrating! You’ve created a book we all need to read (over and over).
Wow! Extraordinary! Yes!
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Amie knows whats up
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a heartfelt a battle cry to, and for, artists.
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Life Changing
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Honest, Insightful, and Deeply Relatable
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