James Clear – Andrew Careaga

Friday Five: James Clear on the creative process

Atomic Habits author James Clear shares his five-step approach to the creative process in a recent edition of his 3-2-1 newsletter.

The creative process

Discover – Read a lot. Observe the world. Notice.
Collect – Immediately record anything that strikes you.
Generate – Build on your notes to brainstorm lots of ideas.
Combine – Connect previously unconnected ideas.
Refine – Edit, edit, edit. Select the best.

Friday Five: thoughts on creativity and the craft

Happy August. (Eek!) So many writers produced great ideas about creativity and the craft in July — the stuff just grew like the cornfields and grapevines here in the bee-you-tiful Missouri Ozarks. Here are five reads that inspired me during that summerest of months.

Friday Five: February finds

Despite my good intentions, the writing and blogging have been inconsistent (read: nonexistent) lately.

As John Lennon wrote and sang, “Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans.”

But that doesn’t mean I’ve been slacking off. No, not at all, dear reader.