Austin Kleon has written a short a pithy book about the unoriginal origins of artistic creation. He wrote this book as a note to a himself as a younger person after learning these insights working on the creative process. He believes all artistic and creative work is derivative. It is a reaction to what has happened in the past.
Highlights: Don't spend all of you time on one creative outlet. Feed yourself with multiple projects in different areas. Play music, go for a walk in nature, write blogs. If you focus just on one aspect your life ceases to be whole. Go ahead procrastinate and bounce from one to another and give the creativity in another area a chance to well up. Do not write what you know but write what you want to read. Try to emulate your favorite artists. Because we can not copy another person we discover our unique quirks and talents when we try to be like them.
His advice to add tactile offline methods to creativity is a good one. He finds time on the computer is a time to produce. The time with clay, post it notes and pieces of paper is the time to be creative.
The book, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative is available from Amazon.com
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