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The 6 Best Books on Creativity and Making Things
Every list of books on creativity and making things recommends the same three titles and stops. This one starts from the whole shelf: 500 books distilled into lessons, examples and action steps. These 6 are the ones worth your week, and every one is free to read here, right now, in your language.
The War of Art
There's a force whose sole mission is to stop you from doing your work. Naming it - Resistance - is half the war.
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Turning Pro
The amateur waits for inspiration and organizes life around fear; the professional shows up daily, plays hurt, and structures life around the work. Turning pro is a decision, not a talent.
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Big Magic
You don't need suffering to create. Curiosity, courage and finished work beat talent and torture.
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Bird by Bird
Write shitty first drafts, take it bird by bird, and remember: perfectionism is the enemy of the people.
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On Writing
Writing is telepathy: the job is to get what's in your head into the reader's - clearly, honestly, every day.
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The Artist's Way
Creativity is not a mood - it's a practice. Morning Pages and Artist Dates rebuild the creative channel.
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