Among his suggestions for selling your book: devise a creative marketing campaign, try one new tactic a day, and study the strategies used by successful self-publishers and imitate them.
A few years later, now more a devotee of John Berger's Ways of Seeing (a TV series and book devised in hostile reaction to Civilisation), I began to feel decidedly uncomfortable with Clark's patrician self-confidence and the "great man" approach to art history – one damn genius after the next – that ran through the series.
In "The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre," which Hoggett and Graham published in 2009, they reminisce tenderly about sets that collapsed in the middle of performances, falling on the actors' feet.
As they acknowledge in the Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre (first published in 2009 and still a terrifically useful primer for anyone setting out to make devised theatre), Graham and Hoggett discovered what they liked through trial and error and by "finding out what we didn't like".
The Way Back Home Successful children's operas are rarities, but English National Opera's latest venture, based on Oliver Jeffers's enchanting book and devised by Katie Mitchell and Vicki Mortimer with music by Joanna Lee, looks to have more going for it than most.
Open-book managers devise scorecards and other tools that show staff how their individual efforts contribute to the bottom line.
Then there are the game shows, watched on television by audiences even larger than those for films and manga books, and devised to expose their willing participants to humiliation bordering on sadism.Mr Fukasaku's contribution to Japan's carnival of cruelty was a series of extraordinary films made over a period of 40 years.
As one of the most successful graphic designers in early 20th-century Britain, or "commercial artists" as they were then called, Kauffer designed stage sets, illustrated books and devised a suitably spooky opening title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent thriller "The Lodger".
She spent the first year working on the seven stories that would become her first book, Simple Recipes, devising a writing system that involved repeatedly abandoning and rewriting whole drafts.
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot that will captivate the reader; it is not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against; it is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she has never been; it is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction.
