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Embrace Your Influence
Three simple words that completely changed the way I look at art. Written by a modern giant in the field of…er, writing books about making art: Austin Kleon. Fittingly enough, basically everything he says in his book Steal Like An Artist has been said before. But I’ve never seen it all arranged and packaged so […]
Mind Monkey Feeding Time
I’m going to try something different this time. Instead of trying to quiet my inner mind-monkeys like I normally do, I’m going to do the opposite. I’m going to chuck a buttload of bananas at them. So get ready for a tour de force of seemingly unconnected random thoughts from the mind of Daniel Bean […]
Script Frenzy
April is wrapping up, and so is Script Frenzy. Never heard of Script Frenzy? It’s a screenwriting version of NanoWriMo. Never heard of NaNoWriMo? It’s National Novel Writing Month, where people from around the globe write a 50,000-word novel in a month. Put them on your calendar! April = Script Frenzy; November = NaNoWriMo. For […]
Seinfeld’s “X”-Method Really Works…
Almost didn’t write today, but then looked at my long list of X’s for each day that I wrote. Can’t break the chain! I read in Steal Like An Artist that Jerry Seinfeld writes a joke a day, and puts a big black “X” on his yearly calendar for each day that he successfully writes […]
My Sacred Texts as an Artist
Creativity War of Art, Steven Pressfield Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon Dramatic Writing Poetics, Aristotle The Art of Dramatic Writing, Lajos Egri No-Budget Filmmaking Rebel Without a Crew, Robert Rodriguez On Pressfield and Kleon: For me, Pressfield and Kleon are the “Ari and Egri” of Creativity. (Aristotle and Egri are considered by many, including […]
