The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in by Nick Bantock

By Nick Bantock

EISBN-13: 978-1-101-62042-7

The act of constructing paintings, in all its types, bargains us a route to our souls. however the course could be complicated, and getting misplaced alongside the way in which is inevitable. although, might be that’s the point.

In The Trickster’s Hat, bestselling writer of the Griffin & Sabine cycle Nick Bantock invitations you to lose your self so that it will develop into a greater writer. encouraged by means of Nick's renowned and mischievous workshops, the book's forty-nine perceptive routines will motivate you to overlook your vacation spot once you meander in the course of the wondrous global that awaits you within the outer edge of your mind's eye.

If you’re prepared to be lead hither and thither down not going paths through a fellow of doubtful acceptance, if you’re ready to maintain a feeling of humor and never be phased while he plucks the unforeseen out of a mischief-stuffed hat, if you’re able to zigzag, detour, and wander looking for a greater figuring out of your creative middle, then, allow the Trickster be your advisor.

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