The Creative Heart: How to anchor creativity into your life and writing
By (Author) Lucy van Smit
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Yearbooks
3rd March 2026
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Creative writing and creative writing guides
Paperback
256
Width 153mm, Height 210mm
When you nurture your creative soul, everything else flourishes.
Ideas are wild things. They slip through our fingers unless we act. This inspiring workbook will help you capture your ideas into a creative practicewhether you want to write a book, craft a poem, reignite an abandoned novel, embrace a new creative path or reinvent yourself.
Blending practical exercises with positive psychology, The Creative Heart anchors creativity in every aspect of your life. Creativity is more than what you doits how you live, breathe and feel.
Building on the success of A Writer's Journal Workbook, this new book goes deeper into what it means to know yourself as a creative soul and write with greater freedom, joy and playfulness.
Let the magic begin!
Lucy van Smit award-winning novelist, artist, and TV producer draws on her own journey of creativity and spiritual growth to help you champion yourself and your work.
Lucy van Smit is an award-winning author and artist. She has made TV documentaries about writers such as John Le Carre and Ian McEwan. She gained a distinction in her MA in Creative Writing and she won the inaugural Bath Children's Novel Award with The Hurting, published by Chicken House. She is a regular tutor at the annual London Screenwriters' Festival. X/Facebook/Instagram:: @lucyvansmit ; www.lucyvansmit.com