Tag: productivity
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Greetings from the edge, I’ve spent the weekend slowly melting into a puddle while wearing an offensively loud shirt. Friday’s post pulled in a lot of eyeballs and, on the strength of that, I return bearing Part 2 of my smash-and-grab raid into Austin Kleon’s masterclass in creative larceny: Steal Like an Artist. Here are…
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Greetings from the edge, Austin Kleon has made a pretty decent living out of encouraging not so much art theft as a kind of creative burglary spree, where we steal a little from Star Wars, a little from Battlestar Galactica and a pinch of Criminal Minds, throw them into a blender and make delicious cookies…
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Greetings from the edge, Well, here we go, I guess. I’m reading On Writing, and the ineffable Stephen King is very clear: if you want to be a writer, you need to do two things. Read a lot and write a lot. He recommends applying arse to chair, hands to keyboard, and not stopping until…