My favorite finds from around the web:
• Police sketches of 5 literary characters based on their book descriptions.
• A Parisian model’s guide to French vs. American girls.
• Secrets to long haul creativity. “Being creative over a career involves a whole subset of nearly invisible skills, a great many of which conflict with most people’s general ideas about what it means to be creative.”
• 24 Jane Austen quotes that still ring true today.
Favorite instagram:
“Mom, will you have ME on your podcast when I finish Harry Potter?” – my 5yo ? From the new What Should I Read Next? account. (Click here to follow @whatshouldireadnext on instagram.)
On the blog:
One year ago: When we were in the fire.
Two years ago: The spiritual discipline of the long walk.
Three years ago: On letting my face speak what’s in my heart.
Four years ago: Best book you’ve never heard of on … architecture.
Have a great weekend!
8 comments
Thank you so much for the post on long-term creativity. I really needed this quote: “long haul creativity requires a low-level, near-constant sense of frustration .”
A blogging question: how do you imbed your instagrams like that so that they’re an appropriate size? Mine always look HUGE and I cannot figure out how to edit them. I even downloaded an instagram plugin and that doesn’t help. IF you have time… 🙂
I think the secret is that they’re not technically embedded. 🙂 I download the photos with statigram and then size them as needed.
The Parisian model video was fun! You find the best assortment of links I wouldn’t normally find, thanks!
Out of curiosity, what are you going to recommend to your 5 yr old when Harry Potter is finished?
Oh golly. I have NO idea! He reads a lot of short books with me and my husband and his siblings, but we usually only have one big fat book going at a time.
Are you ever going to have kids on your podcast??? I think it would be so fun! I actually just played “WSIRN?” with my son this week (inspired by you!).
Yes!