“I have always loved reading and books. When I was younger, I would look at books and marvel at how a person could fill all of those pages with ideas and words all by themselves. Much to my delight, I later learned that I had a knack for writing, and that filling pages could be enjoyable – and sometimes even effortless.”
– Denise Jacobs

Author

Denise’s most recent book is Banish Your Inner Critic (2016), the premier guide on the premier handbook on silencing fears and self-doubt to unleash creativity and help people do their best work. Her first book is The CSS Detective Guide (2010), the comprehensive guide to troubleshooting CSS code. Denise is also co-author to the Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web (2012), and InterAct with Web Standards: A holistic approach to web design (2010). Additionally, Denise contributed to the book Designing Together (2013) by Dan Brown.

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Writer

Denise has contributed articles on creativity to influential web design industry publications. She has written for A List Apart, NetMagazine, Smashing Magazine, Web Standards Sherpa, Sitepoint, and the Miami Herald’s op-ed section. Her most appreciated articles encourage people to overcome procrastination and overwhelm, silence their inner critic, reignite their creative spark, or get in touch with some of the surprising ways they can enhance creative productivity.

The Writer’s Experience

Here are some posts that Denise have written on her experience being a writer:

• Change Your Mind By Hand: Swipe Left

  October 13, 2018

  “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
  — Carl Jung, psychologist

  As we increase awareness of our thoughts to gain better control of them, we’ll invariably notice more negative ones and greater amounts of self-criticism. In addition to relying upon mindfulness to notice them and self-compassion to think ...

• Stop Killing Your Ideas

  October 12, 2018

  “You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you
  write with someone looking over your shoulder, you’ll never write.”
  — Nikki Giovanni, poet

  Some of our most precious time is during the moments of ideation, brainstorming, musing, and contemplation. These are times when we are playing with ideas and seeing how they connect and ...

• Lessons Learned While Writing Banish Your Inner Critic

  May 6, 2017

  I learned that I shouldn’t try to force the book’s content, my ideas, or my writing into a mold – that I should only do that which is authentic to myself.

  So much has changed in the last 8 years since I wrote my first book The CSS Detective Guide, but some things haven’t. As to ...

• Banish Your Inner Critic Book Excerpt: “Readjust to Trust”

  May 5, 2017

  “Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?”
  — Danielle LaPorte, author, speaker, entrepreneur, and blogger

  Have you encountered a four-year-old lately? At this age, many children are very much themselves. They are clear about their likes, dislikes, and wants. They are wonderfully opinionated and sassy. They are in ...

• Why I Wrote Banish Your Inner Critic

  April 13, 2017

  Back when I was writing my first book The CSS Detective Guide in 2009, I battled self doubt almost every day. But when I was done writing and designing the book’s website, I reached one of the deepest, most blissful states of creative flow that I have ever been in. Afterwards, I understood why. During ...

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