Welcome to Creativityist — a website devoted to finetuning your Mac, your workflow, and your soul to develop your creativity. I hope you’ll consider subscribing to the free RSS feed. Or, follow on Twitter: @creativityist.Yesterday, brown trucks across the country began delivering the streamlined Kindle 2 to delighted readers and gadget freaks. I got my [...]
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For most blocked creatives, reading is an addiction. We gobble the words of others rather than digest our own thoughts and feelings, rather than cook up something of our own. (pg. 87)
I hate this quote.
I agree with it, but I hate it.
It is me. I have known this to be true, but how could [...]
I’m an avid reader. I set a goal each year to read an average of a book a week. I enjoy reading, but it is also a discipline of creative work. Ideas rarely initiate out of nowhere. Some of my most creative thoughts cascade out of other ideas, and reading provides me with a torrent [...]
While traveling the past few weeks, I read The Starfish and the Spider for a research project I have due later this month. I read it on my Amazon Kindle. The Kindle experience is turning out to be all I hoped it would — other than having to turn it off for takeoff and landing.
I [...]
Some of the notable blog entries that I have recently starred in Google reader:
How to Use Reading to Become a Better Writer (Write to Done) – “There are two ways to become a better writer, in general: write a lot, and read a lot.”
The Quicksilver-for-Windows Showdown (Lifehacker) – Quicksilver gets its fair share of love [...]
