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Some thoughts on patience from Oliver Burkeman’s book Four Thousand Weeks.

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Words for Living

Making time and space for your art this season

For anybody doing NaNoWriMo or the equivalent, here’s an easy, lo-fi way to keep track of your progress, adapted from The Steal Like An Artist Journal: Do the work every day. Fill the boxes. Don’t break the chain! Download and print the PDF

A day in the life of artist, writer and author of Keep Going, Austin Kleon.

A lot of what I love in art is this “deliberate imperfection,” which you see in everything from Japanese wabi-sabi to Navajo rugs to punk rock.

First, a link to what kind of notebook, because otherwise, dozens of people will ask. Then, the weighing in: This is a silly ritual, but sometimes silly rituals are all we have. Next, the selection of a guardian spirit to look over the notebook. I picked Durër’s Saint Jerome in his Study for this notebook, which

Found notes to myself - Austin Kleon

5 tips for spending more time with books.

I'm sharing 10 of the best lessons I gathered after reading Austin Kleon's, "Steal Like An Artist." The path to creativity is beaming, if only we follow it.

A zine about the creative tension between what is and what could be

“All good things must begin.” —Octavia Butler, journal entry Here is the inside cover of one of Octavia E. Butler’s commonplace books, from around 1988. She wrote herself many of these motivational notes, which can found in her archives at The Huntington. That encouragement was probably essential: Butler faced

Short videos of easy exercises for filling the page

QUICK WRITE It appears daily on my agenda and often sparks great writing, discussion, and even revision. My bestie Erin said it beautifully: “Quick writes produce pure honesty and they’…

A guide to staying creative in good times and bad times from the author of the New York Times bestsellers Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work!

“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.” —Mark Twain (quoted in Steal Like an Artist) “Stolen plants always grow.” —Beatrix Potter My wife routinely picks up clippings and fallen plant parts off the road when we go on our daily walks and brings them

Feeling guilty about not having the answer in book form.