How to start/finish - & other useful blog posts?

[littlebutfierce]

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits has a post on how to start something new, as well as one on how to finish. Zen Habits is a sort of minimalist productivity blog, so it's no surprise that his posts (brief ones, both of them) focus on making things simple.

I thought of fic, naturally: Write one sentence. Or one paragraph. That's how, maybe, you could start something.

On a related note, are there any creativity or inspiration blogs people find useful? I am so torn on them (& books on similar topics)--a lot of the time I read them & cringe, either because they seem rather out of touch w/how a lot of people live, or because they just seem... embarrassingly hippy-dippy (though I appreciate that this reaction could mean that this is just what I need!).

Then again, I have the same reaction to Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way--& I've abandoned lots of things she suggests, because they just don't feel right to me. But 750 Words is based on one of her ideas, & I absolutely would not be here writing fic w/o that site & doing that practice.

Like most other things, I guess it's just about finding the gold among the dross. So! Anyone have any relevant sites they like?

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[lacygrey]

Other sites on creativity...43 folders hes some interesting stuff, although its not very organised so you need to root around.

I did Artists Way a while back. There is a lot in it, but I don't remember much: artist date, morning pages, monsters, god jar... And the fact that is was organised like an addiction recovery program. I followed it with a very lively email group (as I said, it was a while back!), there was a lot of discussion and occasional rounds of flaming!

I think the Artist's Way tries to be everything to everybody, which is why it was so popular and why to any single person many of the things will seem irrelevant. I gave my copy away to a friend in in the end. I must still have my notes somewhere though: What would your eight-year-old self have to say to you now? etc.

[littlebutfierce]

Oh, interesting! So that 43 Folders is specifically geared towards creativity combined w/the GTD system (something I have often thought about implementing, buuuut... never got off my butt to do ;_; ). I will have to dig around there--as you say, it's not organized v. well--but thank you for the link!

I find some of the exercises in the Artist's Way to be useful, & some of them make me cringe--I think the thing for me is to find out which ones make me cringe b/c they bump up against my insecurities (& thus maybe I should take a deep breath & try them), & which make me cringe b/c they're just not how I work/not useful for me.