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CREATIVE WORK/LIFE RESOURCES

Most people know I’m an avid reader. I’m an unabashed lifelong learner and am always looking for new ways to think about things. These are a few of my favorite reads in general, but specific to this section, also work-related.

Some of these I’ve bought several times over, given as gifts, and recommended over and over. Some of them are newer - because even though it’s not my space, I love how excited researchers get when they present research showing just how alike and different and creative and crazy we all are. It’s catching.

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative
Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Inside the Room: Writing Television with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
The Art of Memoir
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know