FREE THE IDEA: THE BOOK
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FREE THE IDEA is a creative self-improvement book that’s the mutant love-child of Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Basically, a more fun-to-read and easier-to-accomplish take on Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way.
Bookstore shelves are stocked with creative self-improvement tomes authored by legends-in-their-own-time (Questlove, Quincy Jones, Jeff Tweedy, Rick Rubin, etc.). But all of these books have a shortcoming at their core: How can the reader, a mere mortal, ever hope to achieve legend-level creativity?
There needs to be should be a creative self-improvement book that “normals” can relate to and put to actual use. A believable book that can help readers better access their own creative powers. A motivating book that is actually fun to read.
Readers will follow along as someone just like them goes through the (inspiring, terrifying, illuminating) process of creating something — in this case a book. By empathizing with the author, they’ll come to realize they can take the same steps to create anything they’ve ever wanted — whether it’s a poem, painting, business venture, game, song, and on into infinity.
NOTE: This is not a book proposal. The expanded, fully-revised third draft reflects notes from several pre-readers, including a former Executive Producer of Good Morning America, and a current section editor of The New York Times.
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todd@FreeTheIdea.co
About the Author:
Todd Beeby launched the Free The Idea Blog & Podcast to help more people answer the call of inspiration, take creative action, and free their ideas into the world. In previous lives he worked as an advertising professional, a commercial fisherman in Alaska, and a HoneybakedⓇ Ham glazer. He lives in New York with his wife and teenage son. When Todd’s not freeing ideas, he’s probably bicycling, kayaking, chasing chocolate babka, or walking Jeremy the Wonder-Stray.