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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.
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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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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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Make Your Art No Matter What
- Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
- By: Beth Pickens
- Narrated by: Beth Pickens
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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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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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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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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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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Me, but Better
- By: Olga Khazan
- Narrated by: Olga Khazan
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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In recent years, Olga Khazan had been spiraling toward an existential crisis. Though she treasured her loving, long-term relationship and her dream job, she often caught herself snatching dissatisfaction from the jaws of happiness. Her neurotic overachieving had always been a professional asset, but lately, Olga felt that her brittle disposition could shatter under the weight of just one more thing. She knew something had to give—but was it really possible to change her entire approach to life?
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Great for introverts who want to be more social
- By ShawnaJ on 03-19-25
By: Olga Khazan
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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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The Art of Creating
- How to Create Art That Transforms Yourself and the World
- By: Joseph Nguyen
- Narrated by: Joseph Nguyen
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Every person is born a creator, but the world has conditioned us to believe that we are not. Most of us are not fulfilled because we have forgotten who we truly are and what we were created to do — create. There is a reason that one of the most fulfilling, expansive, and healing actions we can do as humans is to create using our gifts. The reason many of us do not create is not that we don’t know how, but simply that we are afraid and think ourselves out of it, even though we know deep down it is what we want to be doing every single day.
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Fear of the unknown
- By Amazon Customer on 09-08-24
By: Joseph Nguyen
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The Book of Alchemy
- A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
- By: Suleika Jaouad
- Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad, Vidish Athavale, Fabian Cook Jr., and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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From the time she was young, Suleika Jaouad has kept a journal. She’s used it to mark life's biggest occasions and to weather its most ferocious storms. Journaling has buoyed her through illness, heartbreak, and the deepest uncertainty. And she is not alone: for so many people, keeping a journal is an essential tool for navigating both the personal peaks and valleys and the collective challenges of modern life. More than ever, we need a space for puzzling through.
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I’m so grateful for this book
- By Angela on 05-08-25
By: Suleika Jaouad
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The Better Friend
- 12 Truths to Shift from Shallow and One-Sided Connections to Vibrant Friendships
- By: Grace Valentine
- Narrated by: Grace Valentine
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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Women crave true, vibrant friendships yet so often feel we have to resort to one-sided relationships, shallow conversations, and cliques riddled with comparison and resentment. After years of coaching women and finding community after starting over in a new city, author and podcaster Grace Valentine offers heartening truths and practical insights for finding good friends and being a good friend.
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Uplifting and encouraging!
- By Anderson on 04-14-25
By: Grace Valentine
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Dear Writer
- Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
- By: Maggie Smith
- Narrated by: Maggie Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Drawing from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Each element is explored through short, inspiring, and craft-focused essays, followed by generative writing prompts. Dear Writer provides tools that artists of all experience levels can apply to their own creative practices and carry with them into all genres and all areas of life.
By: Maggie Smith
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- H. Hill
- 03-22-25
AMIE UNDERSTANDS
Love the narration. Tears were shed. I will be purchasing the physical copy as well. The world needs this book.
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- Raul
- 04-26-25
Amazing book for anyone on a creative journey
So helpful! I have just finished listening to the book - and I'm about to start listening again. Amie's words are a great companion, encouraging to keep going. I've already implemented changes inspired by the book and there is more coming. Do yourself a favor and get this book.
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- Alison Faulkner
- 03-20-25
REFRESHING & Delightful!
Amie has such a powerful way with words, and for me, she is able to speak in a way THAT LIGHTS A FIRE. Her tone helps me stay compassionate in my mind, but also really really inspires me and motivates me to make art and take action.
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.
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- Sweetheart
- 04-13-25
Understood
Amazing author, writer, artist. I’m so so happy she decided to read the book herself because it’s what I was hoping for and more ✨🌱🍀💖 navigated all the pitfalls of creativity and how to make art despite mistakes or critics inner or outer in an enjoyable way, playful and genuine the book is beautiful and everything I needed.
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- Cristal J
- 04-11-25
Amie knows whats up
I’ve never felt more seen and heard as an artist. Amie’s words are pure magic and soul soothing. I recommend this book to anyone who appreciates art whether you are a creator or consumer of it, this book is solid gold.
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- MaryM
- 04-14-25
Very encouraging!
She has a very astute understanding of the creative process and gives clarity and encouragement. You understand you are not alone in the creative life. Awesome book!
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- Erin Colson
- 04-04-25
Wow! Extraordinary! Yes!
How did this author get inside my head?! So many times while listening I’d say “Yes! That’s exactly how I feel” or “That’s exactly what I do”. She knows and understands! And she tells you exactly what you need to do because she’s been there. I listened to the book then bought a copy. I can’t wait to go through and highlight Aime’s incredible nuggets. I’m going to listen again too because it’s so good. I’ve been a creative my whole life but now in my 60s I want to make it my focus. This is the most encouraging book with help that I haven’t found in any other book. It’s like your best friend giving you every reason why you should keeping going.
Amie, you should be celebrating! You’ve created a book we all need to read (over and over).
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- Maui2009
- 03-24-25
Inspiring!!! 💜💜💜✨✨
Every artist needs to read/listen to this! I’m planning on listening at least a few more times and taking more notes. Amie (the author) is so down to earth & fun to listen to and she understands the artists heart on a deep level. Highly recommend! 💜✨
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- Jess
- 03-31-25
Amazing!!!
This was so helpful and inspiring. Going back for a second listen!! 5 stars hands down. If you’ve been looking for that jump start into art this is the book!
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- Pce
- 03-29-25
Life Changing
I've been stuck as an artist for quite awhile and I've read so many creative motivational books, but this is the only one where every chapter spoke to me. I look forward to rereading it time and time again. Thank you Amie.
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