Patrick Ross’s blog is a delight. Stories of his personal journey to put creativity and art at the forefront of life inspire me to keep up my own efforts; his frequent round-ups to blog posts, links, and Tweets provide more resources than I can absorb. He’s connected me with a number of other inspiring writers and bloggers.
And he provides all this great content while pursuing his MFA and teaching and writing up a storm elsewhere! I’m not sure how he does it, but I’m glad he does.
Here’s a sample of last week’s round-up of creativity links from The Artist’s Road:
Creativity Tweets of the Week – 02/17/12
By Patrick Ross
I’ve got blogging on the brain, most likely because I’m conducting two different blogging workshops in the next few weeks leading up to the class I’m conducting in April and May. So this week’s list of links on creativity and writing I tweeted this week includes a blogging category, because I was tweeting those as well. So be it.
CREATIVITY
- “How to Be a Complete and Utter Creative Failure,”Dan Goodwin, A Big Creative Yes: It’s the same advice entrepreneurs give: Redefine what failure is, take ownership of falling short of your goals, and learn from it.
- “12 Simple Ways to Unleash More Creative Thinking,” Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: A common element of many of this is that we should break routine.
- “Brainstorming Addiction: How to Stop Dreaming and Start Doing,”Carla Young, MOMEO Magazine: #1: Shorten your timelines.
- “A Juggler’s Guide to Creating Time for Creativity,” Sue Mitchell, Your Muse is Calling: Are you a creative who does not wrestle with other obligations of life? Congratulations! Feel free to use that time to read every one of my previous blog posts. Enjoy!
Patrick Ross is a writer who has returned to an art-committed life. He brings readers insights he’s gathered on creativity and writing—including lessons from the creatives he video-interviewed on a six-week, cross-country trip across the United States. He is also an instructor with The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Cheryl, thank you so much for this honor! I do have a lot of projects in the air, but it helps to have an understanding family and a wall-sized white board to keep track of deadlines and to-dos. As you know, I’m a big fan of your blog, and it’s a pleasure to be featured here!
You’re very welcome. I love visiting your blog for a dose of creative inspiration. Thanks for stopping by!
So happy to see you feature Patrick’s blog, Cheryl. It’s one of my favorites, as well!
Hi Jessica, nice to meet you :).
Thanks, Jessica, you’re the best!
Another Artist’s Road fan here. And besides being a wonderful resource and fountain of insights on creativity, Patrick has a way of attracting really cool people to his blog. Such a thoughtful and supportive community there!
Hi Sue–it’s cool (and amazing to me) all the connections I’m finding online. It seems as if the community of creative types is relatively small, and the blog-o-sphere is helping to bring it together.