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    Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity
    Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity
    Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity
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    Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity

    Written by Felicia Day

    Narrated by Felicia Day

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    An instant New York Times bestseller

    In Embrace Your Weird, New York Times bestselling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award-winning web series creator, Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions.

    Including Felicia’s personal stories and hard-won wisdom, Embrace Your Weird offers:

    —Entertaining and revelatory exercises that empower you to be fearless, so you can rediscover the things that bring you joy, and crack your imagination wide open

    —Unique techniques to vanquish enemies of creativity like: anxiety, fear, procrastination, perfectionism, criticism, and jealousy

    —Tips to cultivate a creative community

    —Space to explore and get your neurons firing

    Whether you enjoy writing, baking, painting, podcasting, playing music, or have yet to uncover your favorite creative outlet, Embrace Your Weird will help you unlock the power of self-expression. Get motivated. Get creative. Get weird.

    Editor's Note

    Editor’s pick…

    This is a reckoning for anyone with creative hopes and dreams who’s too afraid to put their wacky and weird ideas out there. Geek girl Felicia Day provides a million and one creative exercises throughout the book to get your mind out of its paralyzing “that doesn’t sound realistic” mentality. With its abounding practicality and sympathy, “Embrace Your Weird” is the gentle, encouraging nudge you need to make art that YOU love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 2019
    ISBN9781508296584
    Author

    Felicia Day

    Felicia Day is a professional actress who has appeared in numerous television shows and films, including Supernatural, The Magicians, and Mystery Science Theatre 3000. However, Felicia is best known for her work in the web video world, behind and in front of the camera. She co-starred in Joss Whedon’s Internet musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which won an Emmy in 2009. She also created and starred in the seminal web series The Guild. In 2012, Felicia created a production company called Geek & Sundry that pioneered content on YouTube, Twitch and other platforms. It was sold to Legendary Entertainment in 2015. Since writing her New York Times bestselling memoir You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) in 2016, Felicia has continued to work on her own creative projects as a producer, writer, and actor. Most recently she is working as a producer with Freeform on Woman World, an animated TV show based on the award-winning graphic novel.  

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    • 4/5
      I love the book! I'm not sure where I can download the accompanying pdf mentioned in the book though.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Has anyone managed to find the pdf? I would really like to track it down.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I adore this woman! This is a wonderfully quirky, very real and honest book with dozens of fun exercises to get those creative juices flowing. Very happy I listened to it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Amazing! You need to listen to this ! (and find the PDF)

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Knowing that I don't have to stay with in a set cliche, helps me so much.
    • 5/5
      A new personal favorite! Felicia Day captures the voice of the neurotic and reluctant creative with such perfection that I sometimes almost forgot I was listening to an audiobook, mistaking hers for my own weird inner voice. The narration is encouraging, warm and hilarious with lots of gamer, sci-fi and 90’s references. The ideas and exercises for cultivating your inner creative are well thought out and reminded me of another of my favorite books, The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I can’t say anything negative about this audiobook. It is definitely on my purchase & download list. Well done and thank you to the author and narrator!
    • 5/5
      Very funny and seriously helpful book! Give it a try
    • 5/5
      I have gone through countless books on creativity and writing and this is, surprisingly, one of the best. I’m going to buy a hard copy and go through it again.
    • 5/5
      informative inspiring and funny sometimes I felt like I was playing a wonderful video game that I was always going to the next level LOL