It’s time to rewind through some of the best blog posts of the week related to writing, books, creativity – and sometimes just some other fun but random stuff. Each Friday I link to my favorite posts of the week so you have another chance to catch an interesting post you might have missed or discover a new blogger.
Here are my Friday Reruns for this week.
Shai Coggins admits that she’s an idea-aholic but has stopped fighting her resistance to “idea overload” in her post: Ideas, Ideas, Ideas. And what about all those ideas and interests? On Mildly Creative this week, Ken Robert writes about How to Pursue Multiple Interests and Still Get Something Done which is right in line with How Many Goals Do You Have? on Pick Your Brain that encourages you to limit your goals, not your potential.
We move from an abundance of ideas to the need for constraints in our creative endeavors in this Psychology Today post: Stimulating the Imagination Through Constraints. Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein argue that we need “boundary conditions, craft requirements, aesthetic standards and self-imposed ‘rules’ in order to define the ‘problem’ you wish to ‘solve’ artistically and in your own way.”
And then there’s the constraint of the writer with a day job. Emily St. John Mandel’s article from The Millions, Working the Double Shift, includes Emily’s own experience with working to support her writing along with those of novelists Elise Blackwell and Jason Quinn Malott.
Iain Broome wrote what turned out to be quite a controversial blog post this week on Write For Your Life: Ignore Anyone to Tells You to Write, Write, Write. Regardless of which side of the argument you find yourself on, you will take something away from this post and the comments.
Once you’re off and writing you’re likely thinking about the writing craft. Andrew Rosenberg on The WriteRunner blog launched what will be a 12-part series on Story Structure inspired by Christopher Volger’s The Writing Journey. In Part One: The Ordinary World, we see the place where the hero’s journey begins – using the analogy of an American football game – and in Part Two: The Call to Adventure, the inciting incident.
While omniscient point of view seems like one of those terms we should all be able to easily define, What is Omniscience (in Fiction Writing)? on Kim’s Craft Blog provides some great insight and examples.
The Warrior Writer Guide to Creating Legendary Characters helps writers move away from the cardboard caricatures and develop characters keeping their moral and ethical perspectives in mind.
This week I attended a telechat hosted by The Spirited Woman where Jennie Nash spoke about writing, creative moonlighting, how cancer impacted her life and her new novel, The Threadbare Heart (out in May 2010 and I can’t wait to read it!) A line from her forthcoming novel, “Creativity is not a linear process,” seems to have inspired a two-part blog series.
Read Part 1 | Read Part 2
And now for some writing- and word-related creative inspiration. What writer doesn’t love the very concept of Punctuation-Inspired Logo Designs? And check out this very cool T-Shirt Sketchbook on Behance.
And because I just can’t help myself, enjoy these 61 Exceptionally Creative Wine Label Designs.
lara
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