Shut Your Monkey

Author: Danny Gregory
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440341176
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Hear that voice inside your head? The one that nitpicks all your new ideas? That's your monkey. This hypercritical little critter loves to make you second-guess yourself. It stirs up doubt. It kills your creativity. But it can be stopped. And acclaimed author Danny Gregory is here to show you how. After battling it out with his own monkey, he knows how to shut yours down. Gregory provides insight into the inner workings of your inner critic and teaches you how to put it in its place. Soon you'll be able to silence that voice and do what you want to do—create. Now follow his lead and Shut Your Monkey.

Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk

Author: Danielle Krysa
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 145214849X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
This charmingly illustrated guide shares ten truths about creativity, confidence, and how you can silence that stifling voice in your head. This book is a salve for creative minds everywhere, and duct tape for the mouth of every artist’s inner critic. Author and art curator Danielle Krysa explores ten essential truths we all must face in order to defeat self-doubt. Each encouraging chapter deconstructs a pivotal moment on the creative path—fear of the blank page, the dangers of jealousy, sharing work with others—and explains how to navigate roadblocks. Packed with helpful anecdotes, thoughts from successful creatives, and practical exercises gleaned from Danielle Krysa’s years of working with professional and aspiring artists—plus riotously apt illustrations from art world darling Martha Rich—this ebook arms readers with the most essential tool for their toolbox: the confidence they need to get down to business and make good work.

An Illustrated Journey

Author: Danny Gregory
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144032025X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Collects excerpts from the personal travel journal sketchbooks of forty-three artists, illustrators, and designers.

A Kiss Before You Go

Author: Danny Gregory
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452163286
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
After the loss of his wife in a tragic accident, beloved artist Danny Gregory chronicled his grief in the medium he knows best—the pages of his illustrated journals. This intimate reproduction of his journal is a stirring visual memoir of Gregory's journey towards recovery. Uniquely sincere, and by turns tender, raw, and hopeful, Gregory's idiosyncratic text and illustrations capture the darkest and lightest moments of his "year of magical drawing." Gregory's process reminds us that creative expression offers its own therapy, and that living each day to its fullest may be as simple as putting pen to paper. Anyone who has experienced loss will take solace in this refreshingly candid look at grieving, while art lovers will marvel at the artist's beautiful celebration of the power of creation.

Art Before Breakfast

Author: Danny Gregory
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452149232
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Packed with the signature can-do attitude that makes beloved artist Danny Gregory a creativity guru to thousands across the globe, this unique guide serves up a hearty helping of inspiration. For aspiring artists who want to draw and paint but just can't seem to find time in the day, Gregory offers 5– to 10–minute exercises for every skill level that fit into any schedule—whether on a plane, in a meeting, or at the breakfast table—along with practical instruction on techniques and materials, plus strategies for making work that's exciting, unintimidating, and fulfilling. Filled with Gregory's encouraging words and motivating illustrations, Art Before Breakfast teaches readers how to develop a creative habit and lead a richer life through making art.

That's Not My Monkey

Author: Fiona Watt
Publisher: Usborne Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780794521783
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10

Book Description
Young readers may touch various surfaces on monkeys that are not the one someone is looking for, until at last the right one appears. On board pages.

Summary of Danny Gregory's Shut Your Monkey

Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 23

Book Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The voice in your head is not evil, but it does evil. It is powerful, but its power can be broken. And now more than ever in the history of our brainy species, we need to take it on and prevent it from preventing us from addressing the many challenges our world faces today. #2 The voice of the inner critic is a familiar one. It’s the voice of doom, and it warns you of the dire consequences that will fall on you if you take the step you are contemplating. It makes you second-guess yourself. #3 The voice is what messes with creative people the most. It hates change and risk, and it will do anything to prevent you from changing your mind or doing something new. You must learn to shut it down. #4 I have been a creative person my whole life, and people have been paying me to make things for over thirty years. I have created many new ideas with millions of dollars at stake. I have had many briefings, deadlines, presentations, reviews, and awards.

The Hater

Author: William Winters
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1640037152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526

Book Description
This story explores a perceived world of chaos where order is perceived, absolutes where relativism is absolute, and love spawned from hatred. Paul Berkely, a journalist, is not aware that this perception exists, but he is forced to face it when his path is entwined with a man described as "The Hater."

They Call Me Law

Author: Kelly Marie
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1648542042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Meet Ky-mani "Law" Parker; the sexy retired King of the streets of Chicago. He can have any woman he wants and women want nothing more than to be his queen; especially his accidental baby momma, Monae. The women he has encountered do not even begin to qualify until he meets Honey. Honey Unique Johnson is in a loveless five-year relationship with her boyfriend Jerome. They had the perfect, straight life together until he became a man of the streets. The sudden change and the street life is too much for Honey and she walks away. But then she meets Ky-mani and all is great until she finds out that he is none other than Law, someone who Honey has learned to fear. Can she look past the king of the streets and see the man inside? Can she overlook who he is, when she left her boyfriend for being a street nigga? Can Ky-mani find a way to hold on to the one woman he can't live without? Find out as you follow this unlikely couple as they battle with finding a way to merge their two different worlds together whilst facing off with snakes, family secrets, lies and betrayal.

Zen and the City of Angels

Author: Elizabeth M. Cosin
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429972521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
In the madness of L.A., Zen Moses is a risk-taking P.I. who has already fought for her life and her sanity-so what's wrong with doing a little favor for a friend? The friend is Jim Gray, a trusted attorney, who needs her to find a missing dog. But this simple case leads Zen to a dead man with no face, the trail of a vanished dealmaker, and the hospital room where Gray is fighting for his life. Suddenly the suspect in a murder-and an unwitting participant in a woman's violent unraveling-Zen finds herself in a tight spot. And it may be too late when she finally uncovers the truth: that in the city of angels, she's been handpicked by some very powerful people-for a long hard fall down to hell...