Since I spend a large portion of my week hunting and gathering and reading, I’ve decided to roll out The Friday Post. Each Friday I’ll share my favorite sites, articles, books and other resources found during my weekly web and bookstore prowls.
I went to Hugh MacLeod’s gapingvoid.com and I got stuck. (See the sidebar for a fun glance at the gapingvoid widget.) At one point – reading, reading, reading – my brain clicked and I “got it”, “grocked” it – then it went away. The ideas here are new to me and thinking in a new way is harder than giving up cigarettes or losing a pound.
It’s this kind of creativity – the kind that changes our lives by the doing and the sharing of it – that I am inspired to find within myself and share with you here.
The idea is to move
from: numb
to: alive
creating = alive & alive = creating
Sandy from The Dreaming Cafe attended the North Wildwood Beach Writers’ Conference this week and she gives a great run-down full of resources here:
The Dreaming Cafe: North Wildwood Beach Writers Conference
this was preceded by an excellent post on
The Five Phases of Being a Writer
I’ve also been prowling the sites of mixed-media artists. This quest was inspired by Lisa Sonora Beam’s The Creative Entrepreneur. There will be more posts in the future about my process as I work through this book.
Leah at Creative Every Day posted a beautiful interview with Bridgette Guerzon Mills. Besides the amazing artwork featured in the interview, Bridgette Guerzon Mills makes beautiful handmade journals which you can browse and purchase at amanobooks. If you are inspired to hold yourself accountable to your artistry, Leah also hosts the Creative Every Day Challenge on her site.
Enjoy your prowling and browsing this week! And, if you find something wonderful, please share it with me.
Tags: Creativity, Inspiration
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Thank you so much for the mention, Kirsten. I really appreciate it!! Wishing you a beautiful weekend.
Hi Kirsten,
This is a great idea for a weekly post. And, THANKS for including me!!
Sandy
Kirsten, this is such an inspired, helpful idea. I absolutely intend to copy you!
It’s so educational when creative’s share their own particular resources and sources of inspiration. I know I’ve found many new teachers, friends, and colleagues this way.
This is a great idea. I do the same thing on Thursdays, I call it Theme Thursday, to avoid clashing with Twitter’s #FollowFriday. I’ll like to your previous Friday’s post in my next ThemeThursday. Thanks for doing this–it’s like a creative wiki!
Thank you! This is great. I have tried to sit down and hammer out a posting schedule and different themes for different days, but it just wasn’t working. When I started writing this, I realized how much of my time I spend searching for new sources and inspiration and I thought, why not. If others are interested I am certainly open to creating a web-circle on this theme.