The Artist’s Road is back with more links on creativity and writing. Mr. Bacon is also back, petulant at having been left off of the blog for several weeks. He’s lucky I haven’t cooked him.
CREATIVITY
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Perhaps inspired by the two posts featuring "7" below, Mr. Bacon attempts to bend 7 LEGO men to his ill-intentioned will. “Scheduling Spontaneity,” Jonathan Fields: Good advice, but not an original line. Does anyone else remember this line by Daphne Zuniga in The Sure Thing? “Spontaneity has its time and place.”
- “music and the mind,” Stan Stewart, Muz4Now: Did you know music is medicine to the mind?
WRITING
- “Death of a Dream: one writer’s journey from hopelessness to inspiration,” Shari Lopatin, guest post at Anthem Exposition: I confess to being a sucker for stories of journalists seeking a creative path.
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Now here's a question for you: Has Mr. Bacon formed a LEGO man army, or is he on the run from one? “The Artist’s Path,” Paige Crutcher, Ringing out my bailalika: This is proving to be a recurring theme in original posts on The Artist’s Road and in links like this one–a writer struggles with her muse and with maintaining a blog.
- “Going Part-Time (Hard Habit to Break),” Allison Tait, Life in a Pink Fibro: Like Paige, Allison is looking for creative balance and more time and motivation for her creative writing. This daily blogger is shifting to a more reasonable post schedule.
- “7 Things I’ve Learned So Far,” by Mara Purnhagen,” guest post on Writer’s Digest: I like the novelist’s #3, “Get used to weird questions.”
- “7 Words I Never Want to See in Your Blog Posts,” Joey Strawn, FOR bloggers BY bloggers:Ā Years ago I wrote an online grammar column. I didn’t like telling people what they were doing wrong, but I enjoy linking to others who do that.
- “Tuesday 10: How to Write When You’re Not in the Mood,” Cheryl Reif, Cheryl Reif Writes: Cheryl offers these tips at the start of NaNoWriMo. You wouldn’t want to be NoWa(nna)Wri(te)NoMo(re).
Keep creating!
The Artist's Road 
I nearly spit coffee all over my laptop screen when I saw that first photo and I blurted out, “OH MY GOD!” My son is the Lego Minifig King. That’s quite a collection you have there, Mr. Bacon! Rolling on floor over here. š
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Glad you liked it. A new handle for you?
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Great list, Patrick. I especially enjoyed Joey Strawn’s post. Thanks for passing these along!
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The first six were pounded into me when I was a journalist. The last one reminds me of how old I am, because I remember the era of typewriters when we were told to put two spaces after a period. Sigh.
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The two spaces issue is a bone of constant contention in my writers workshop. I am a single spacer, so the double spaces is difficult for me to read (I always take them out prior to critiquing…less distracting). But you have lots of good company if you double space. š
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Thanks Patrick as always for the inspiration. I’ve started to flesh out a novel idea I’ve had for years… and while I am good (haha maybe this is debatable) about getting work down with my visual arts I need to learn to apply some of those tricks to my writing. “How to write then you’re not in the mood” will be something I bookmark for a reminder when I’m feeling uninterested in what I’m writing!
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Hi Carrie! I am both glad to have been some assistance in your writing pursuits, and simultaneously shamed as I remember I have still to read most of your book on art. In my defense, I have had little time to read anything but my MFA assignments this fall, but my semester ends in 8 days and I look forward to picking it up then. š
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Thanks for including me in your list, Patrick!! I hope to read YOUR full story someday soon, as well. š
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Thanks Patrick, for including me in your list!! I hope to read YOUR full story someday soon, as well. š
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I think Mr. Bacon has minions! (Let’s hope they are all as dumb as the average minion…)
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