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Discover Your Creative Writing Compass
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8 Lessons|ByDan Millman and Sierra Prasada

Discover Your Creative Writing Compass

Taken by 2,325 people

Consider just how often you tell stories. On a daily basis, you express yourself to family and friends, as well as strangers via social media. What should be a source of bliss — creativity — can also generate confusion and doubt, even paralysis. That's because it matters what stories you tell and how you tell them. With this course, Dan Millman and Sierra Prasada — father and daughter coauthors of The Creative Compass — offer guidance and encouragement to help you push through common blocks to writing or any form of creativity. They demystify the process without dispelling the magic. The hard-won truths they articulate, and the innovative exercises they present, will light your way and enrich your practice.

Connecting with Your Inner Storyteller

Through this illuminating program, Dan and Sierra connect you with your inner storyteller. With each subsequent lesson, they recommend individual exercises and techniques, and give suggestions for further reading, so you can make the most of the course. They also present a progressive series of writing assignments that will enable you to gain more direct experience navigating the five stages that represent the major movements in the creative journey: Dream, Draft, Develop, Refine, and Share. These five stages capture the key turning points that take a writer from a sticky idea to a published book, as well as a musician from a melodic phrase to a song or symphony, or an innovator from an intriguing concept to a popular invention. Whether you're a writer, artist, or innovator, you'll find greater creative and personal fulfillment thanks to their groundbreaking approach.

Topics covered:

  • The Compass: Discover five universal stages of creativity
  • The Challenge: Overcome self-doubt and inertia
  • The Source: Dream up compelling ideas and stories
  • The Connection: Learn to move your audience
  • The Power: Access hidden reservoirs of courage and inspiration
  • The Questions: Unlock new opportunities and insights
  • The Outcome: Live more joyfully and creatively

Through this course you will:

  • Consciously develop your own practice as you become more self-aware
  • Recognize what makes some ideas more important to you than others
  • Experiment with specific techniques to release the story within those ideas
  • Discover new reservoirs of courage, stamina, and inspiration
  • Identify the ideal readers who can guide your writing and rewriting
  • Draft and develop in layers, which brings an intuitive understanding of the wayward transformations that lead to art
  • Devise the questions you need to develop your work
  • Draw illuminating connections between your progress on the page and in life
Discover Your Creative Writing Compass
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Discover Your Creative Writing Compass
Taken by 2,325 people
$55.00 USD Value • Pay What You Want
$19.00$35.00$55.00
$55.00 USD Value • Pay What You Want
$19.00$35.00$55.00
This is the total amount for all lessons.
Pay extra to give more to our instructors and to help create new courses. No matter how much you pay, you'll get the same course as everybody else.
What People Are Saying
“Both seasoned professionals, the authors share ideas, strategies and insights into how to launch and develop a writing career. They've constructed a creative compass to help writers find their own way to a successful career in writing.”
Jennifer
“When the authors address relevant topics such as procrastination, self-awareness, journaling and self-reflection, they go beyond the exploration of writing techniques, and reveal truly valuable life lessons as part of the process.”
Suyash
“Dan Millman and Sierra Prasada's 5-stage model is a realistic map of the writing territory and having it at hand is truly a comfort. Their practical tips and beautifully crafted stories are inspirational, and their wisdom will serve our writing efforts like True North. This honest and compassionate account of what it actually takes to move from dreams to reality, makes me feel like Dan and Sierra are part of my writing tribe.”
Erica
“I especially appreciated their clarity about the process of development. I needed to hear this badly. My first books were fueled largely by passion and the one I'm working on now is begging for extra refinement. Dan and Sierra gave me the needed injection of patience and objectivity to circle my first draft a few times and step back up with a finer grade of sand paper.”
Jacob
“The authors' five-stage process shows how to overcome inevitable pitfalls along the way as writers move from dreams to the reality of the printed word.”
Ed
“Dan Millman and Sierra Prasada have done a beautiful job of guiding us through the stages of creating writing. And, I found that it inspired creativity in my business projects as well. It is as much an inward journey as it is a process, and the results have been beyond my wildest dreams.”
Tamara
“Once again Millman delivers in his inimitable style, a delightful compendium of advice, tips and bon mots, in quotes from others.”
Rachael

Meet Your Teacher

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Dan Millman and Sierra Prasada

Dan Millman is author of 16 books published in 29 languages. Way of the Peaceful Warrior was adapted to a film released by Universal Pictures in 2007. A popular international teacher and speaker, Dan has influenced leaders in the fields of psychology, health, education, business, politics, sports, entertainment, and the arts.

Sierra Prasada is a Washington, D.C.-based author, journalist, editor, and teacher. While living in and reporting on the Middle East, she gained proficiency in Arabic and wrote her first book, Creative Lives, profiling Lebanese artists. Her current undertakings include a ten-year 20th Century Project, a screenplay adaptation, and other fiction and nonfiction projects.

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