Go to the Writers.
http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2010/06/go-to-the-writers/

Anne Lamott, in particular, has helped me as both a writer and a photographer. Probably because she’s more neurotic and self-deprecating than I am, and I take comfort in that. In her book Bird by Bird she talks about the first steps in writing, among them this: Write sh*tty first drafts. Don’t over-think it, just get it down. Put the words on paper, no matter how loud the inner critic is screaming that those words are juvenile, self-indulgent, cliche, obvious, crap. Just get it down.

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Another awesome article from David DuChemin.

Learning about creativity this past couple of years has been totally crucial for me.

Ed

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The War of Art – Visual Book Summary Part I and II | Sunni Brown
http://sunnibrown.com/2010/05/11/the-war-of-art-visual-book-summary/

Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art left an indelible impression on me (and many others I’m sure), so I decided to memorialize some of the lessons in a visual format. Both visuals were done by hand in one sitting,

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Awesome infographics on the War of Art.

Check them out

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Ian Betteridge on Comments
http://www.technovia.co.uk/2010/06/john-gruber-joe-wilcox-and-why-comments-are-anti-web.html

“When I link, though, I try to send my readers away. I share every bit of my traffic that I can. Do I tend to link more frequently to pieces with which I agree, or which I think are correct? Of course, because those are the ones I tend to consider most worth my readers’ time. But it’s certainly not true that I never link to pieces with which I disagree — or which are written by people who disagree with me.”

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