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We Need Your Art

Stop Messing Around and Make Something

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We Need Your Art

By: Amie McNee
Narrated by: Amie McNee
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 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. Art Creativity Personal Development
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I love this book and highly recommend this not just for the artist but for all creatives, designers, and anyone who wants to be seen.

Reassuring, awakening, and real

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Thank you Amie. You messaged me on instagram saying 'I hope she's good to you Ry'. She was. Along my journey listening to this book I have rekindled my artwork, made my first youtube video in years, and have been writing my book, slowly but surely.

Thanks courageously sharing your light.

I am Grateful for this Book

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I am crying that this has finished. What an inspiring and helpful and comforting read for artists. Amie is a warm light in a very dark world, where Artists get treated coldly in this society.
This book will make more art happen, how bloody awesome is that !!!??

Incredible

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I hope so! I listened not because I write in the book sense, but because I’m an illustrator with dreams of becoming a children’s book illustrator

We need your Art

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I will keep returning to this book for the reassurance and sage guidance that I need as I continue my creative life.

loved it

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