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"Write the book you want to read. Don’t screw around writing work to please your teachers or agents or literary journals. Think about the books you love, and mash them up into something of your own. Think about the writers you love, and pick up the torch from them."

~ Austin Kleon, born today, 1983.

#AustinKleon #Quote #Today

Es gab #Buchpost 😍
Die Bücher bin #AustinKleon sind bei mir Pflichtlektüre. Sie sind kurz und bündig, aber immer inspirierend und motivierend. Ohne sein Buch #ShowYourWork hätte ich Social Media vermutlich selbst in Form von Mastodon längst aufgegeben.
Nun bin ich sehr gespannt, was mich in #DontCallItArt erwartet!

#lesen #buchstodon #mastoart

“My real hobby is being at the mercy of my own whims and moods.”

From today’s Typewriter Interview featuring Brad Neely by Austin Kleon.
#bradneely #austinkleon

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/the-comfort-of-a-rubiks-cube

“We’re wired to want to turn chaos into order. Randomness into meaning.” #austinkleon

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/the-comfort-of-a-rubiks-cube

“When so many of life’s problems are unsolvable, solvable problems are a wonderful distraction. When so many things seem unfixable, fixing something feels amazing.” #austinkleon

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/introspection

‘Therapy sessions were conducted by Arthur Janov, who said of Lennon at the time, “This was someone the whole world adored, and it didn't change a thing. At the center of all that fame and wealth and adulation was just a lonely little kid.”’
#austinkleon

Meine neue #Rezension zu #KeepGoing von #AustinKleon ist nun kostenlos für alle Mitglieder auf #Patreon online. 🤓

https://www.patreon.com/posts/151855605?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share

#bookstodon #buchstodon #bookbubble #lesen #buchlesen #buchwyrm #bookwyrm

Der nächste #Blogpost mit #Buchmeinung für #Patreon ist nun auch schon vorbereitet. 🩵 Diesmal geht es um #KeepGoing von #AustinKleon und ich zeige euch meine persönliche #BlissStation für #Kreativität 🩵

Gerade kam neue #Buchpost bei mir an! 🥰 Die Titel passen doch auch ganz hervorragend zusammen, nicht wahr? 😂 Mit welchem fange ich denn dann heute Abend an?

#keepgoing #austinkleon #weneedyourart #amiemcnee #lesen #design #mastoart #mastoartist #bookstodon

Useful Work Produced by People We Find Reprehensible

https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/useful-work-produced-by-people-we-find-reprehensible/

Austin Kleon en Ryan Holiday komen geregeld voorbij op mijn blog. Austin Kleon — een schrijver die tekent — in het bijzonder is een echte oer-blogger en denkt veel na over creativiteit. Ryan Holiday zijn werk bestaat uit het verpakken en toepassen van klassieke stoïcijnse filosofie voor de moderne tijd.

En beide heren zijn wandelde wikipedias.

Volgens mij wonen ze ongeveer in hetzelfde […]

https://janvandenberg.blog/austin-kleon-in-gesprek-met-ryan-holiday/

#AustinKleon #RyanHoliday #YouTube

The creative mind

The creative mind gets poisoned with the idea that your great work will be the result of getting serious. So many of my good ideas come from what looks like goofing off, wasting time. Art is play. There’s no way to tell what’s deep or shallow until you play with the idea.

~ Austin Kleon

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Olen #AustinKleon -fani ja sain häneltä juuri aivan ihanan ystävänpäivälahjan. Pistän sen kyllä heti kiertoon, eli tulosta sinäkin itsellesi pieni zine ja lue sitten siitä Austinin lukuvinkkejä. :)

Hauskoja lukuhetkiä viikonloppuun/talvilomaan. :)

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/how-to-read-like-an-artist

#kirjamastodon

“In Wilson's 2016 memoir, I Am Brian Wilson, he recalled once playing the song's drum intro "ten times until everyone in the room told me to stop, and then I played it ten more times."
via #AustinKleon

Be My Baby - Wikipedia https://bit.ly/406jjMf

This is how people actually find your show

I’m reading Amy Sillman’s Faux Pas and when I was searching her name in the Podcasts app I came across this conversation with writer Sheila Heti.

~ Austin Kleon, from Getting in and out of trouble

People find your show because they are looking for something, or someone, very specific.

People are not just sitting around thinking, “I feel like a need a new podcast to listen to… maybe something that inspires me to move more…” And then they search for “movement inspiration” . . . and then they land on my Movers Mindset show. No that’s not at all how it works. People do not find our show.

People find ONE, SPECIFIC episode. That’s what Kleon did above.

Think of a guest, or a topic, which you did about a year ago…

Now search for that person or topic in your podcast player, or in a web search engine…

Did you find that one episode you were thinking of?

Because people do that. And only then does our show description, show title, show art, episode art, episode notes, and all our hard work gives them the chance to pick us.

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Ik las deze week Keep Going van Austin Kleon. Het is de derde uit zijn serie. Na Steal Like An Artist en Show Your Work.

Austin Kleon

Ik raad zijn boeken aan, het staat vol met leuke ideeen en Austin zijn boeken zijn al inspiratie geweest voor meerdere blogs.

De boeken zijn ook makkelijk te herlezen. Waardoor je de ideeën steeds weer even kan herhalen. Maar twee ideeën uit Keep Going wil […]

https://janvandenberg.blog/verscheur-een-gedicht-en-geef-kadootjes/

On finding time to be creative https://mikepaul.com/on-finding-time-to-be-creative/ #AustinKleon, #CreativeLeadership, #Creativity, #Education, #Gifts, #HarlanEllison, #Leadership, #RyanHoliday, #StephenKing, #Teachers

Solo per Me — Una poesia di questa mattina. Ho ripreso a scrivere poesie seguendo una sorta di implicito consiglio di Ray Bradbury. Il consiglio lo trovate nel libro Zen in the Art of Writing. Lo trovate, cioè, se lo cercate. Non è un libro particolarmente didascalico, anzi. Ma direi che è proprio questo il suo valore…

Austin Kleon musicassette — Peraltro, trovo interessante che Sherlock Holmes sia proprio in questa sua playlist. Mi piace l’idea. Da bambino ne facevo peraltro parecchie di musicassette personalizzate. Era un lavoro piuttosto istruttivo sul piano della creatività. Il digitale spinto ha rettificato di molto la nostra capacità manuale di fondere le cose per creare novità.

Burle e somiglianze musicali — Quella delle “somiglianze musicali”, per ogni musicista, è una sorta di ossessione. Il pop è pieno zeppo di somiglianze, ora volute, ora non volute, oppure anche subliminali: canzoni che scivolano in altre o sembrano essere fatte apposta per un mashup, ritornelli presi di peso, ispirazioni da schemi antichi o antichissimi, e via discorrendo. Tempo fa ho inserito questa cosa pure in un corso di songwriting tenuto a Vicenza, che ha goduto peraltro di un notevole successo. Detto questo, ascoltiamo di fila Giulio Cesare e Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic.

https://palmbeach.vivaldi.net/2024/03/24/poesie-musicassette-e-gemellaggi/

#AustinKleon #musicassette #RayBradbury

Publish! Show Your Work! You Don’t Have Leonardo’s Genius or Luck

https://janusworx.com/blog/publish-you-dont-have-leonardos-genius-or-luck/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #ShowUp #Publish #ShowYourWork #AustinKleon #DavidKadavy #LeonardoDaVinci

Hey, pay attention

I have a routine with my journaling. Over time, that routine has changed a lot and I’m sure it will evolve farther. Currently, I start a clean A5-sized face of a page for each day. I do not read the previous day’s entry; I’m never trying to continue where I left off in my thinking as I journal. No, the journal is simply a place for me to talk to my future self. Here’s why I did that thing I did. Here’s this really great idea… but I’m letting go of it, and writing it down hoping future-me gets a chuckle at the dumb idea I was wise to drop. Sometimes I record really big wins. Sometimes I record really big losses. A wedding! A birth! A death! But mostly, I’m just capturing how I feel, why I feel, what I think, why I think, … Sometimes I spend hours painstakingly handwriting long texts. Sometimes it’s just 60-seconds and a bulleted list. Vanishingly rare is a sketch. Occasionally a flourish of colored-penciling. There are often inset headings in block letters at the sides as signposts—first instance of this, last instance of that.

It helps me pay attention to my life.

~ Austin Kleon from, Why I keep a diary

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Yes, there’s much paying of attention to my life that happens in the writing.

But the true wizardry is in the years-later rereading.

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#1 Unlocking Creativity

https://dontmindrick.com/1-unlocking-creativity/

The good, the bad, and the ugly

I’m deep into NO!vember and of course the biggest reduction in overload is the practice of not adding more things. But I’m finding some snowball effect too: As I see the pile evaporating… as I’m not adding more things… I’m feeling more inspired and motivated to pick off one or two problem things.

One thing I will say about these lists: they are written as a way of fortune and future-telling and anticipating what a technology might do. But you often don’t know the answers to a lot of the questions until you adopt the technology.

~ Austin Kleon from, Questions for technology

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Kleon’s post is a significant collection of things (people who’ve dug into technology, lists of questions as way to evaluate technology, and more) for evaluating technology. But this point he makes at the very end is critical: Sometimes, you just can’t tell until you try it.

I hate that about technology. In fact, I use it as a key test of my own. If I cant’ tell without trying it, then it’s not worth my time trying.

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There’s no “Fin!”

In the last 20 years I’ve made three false–starts at sketching. They parallel my personal growth. The first false–start involved me buying books and materials, and spending a lot of time setting things up to create what I thought was the perfect environment. No sketching happened. The second false–start involved my removing what I thought was a barrier; I switched to journaling in pencil (a multi-year side quest I eventually returned from loving ink more deeply) because I thought having the sketching tools before me more often would lead to sketching. The third false-start now happens once every few weeks: I find myself paused, looking at something, really seeing, and I notice an urge to sketch.

I came late to his work: I remember seeing him on TV when I was a kid, but I only really started reading him post-cancer, around 2010 or so, when he was in the middle of his great blogging explosion caused by losing his voice due to his health complications.

~ Austin Kleon from, 10 years without Roger Ebert – Austin Kleon

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The connection is that Roger Ebert did a lot of sketching in addition to a lot of writing.

This time of year, every year, I’m thinking about seasons of life at large, and cycles in our work. I find that it’s fulfilling when I finish some large thing— when the last piece of a large project clicks into place like the final jigsaw piece. What doesn’t work is when I imagine that feeling of fulfillment too soon. I do try to imagine what done looks like before I begin small things—few-hours sized things, days sized things. But for large things, it’s often better if I think of a few possible ways it could eventually be “done” and then simply get to work. It’s best if I remember there’s no tidy “Fin!” like at the end of a movie; There’s only the doing.

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Because I wrote a book called *Steal Like an Artist*, some people think I’m really interested in plagiarism. Actually, I’m much more interested in *forgery*.

“Plagiarism is the flip side of forgery,” wrote Andrew Potter in *The Authenticity Hoax*. “Forgers pass off their own work as that of someone else, while plagiarists pass off the work of others as their own.”

In other words: Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else’s work. Forgery is giving someone else credit for work you create.

The difference is you *doing the work*.

— Austin Kleon
https://austinkleon.com/2023/11/01/3-recent-newsletters/

#Art #Life #mjbDoTheWork #StealLikeAnArtist #AustinKleon

No!vember

It’s amazing what the addition of a single character can do. I’m often striving to say no more often. The month of No!vember shall be a month of practicing saying no.

I’ve been saying “no” to a lot of stuff and spending more time alone, working in the studio. When it comes to invitations, a helpful question I ask myself is, “Would I do it tomorrow?” If not, here’s how to graciously say no to anyone. (More in the “Build a Bliss Station” chapter of my book, Keep Going.)

~ Austin Kleon, from NO!vember

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It’s not clear (granted, I didn’t look very hard) if No!vember is Kleon’s idea. That doesn’t matter to me. His mention is where I first learned it, and so I was 19,050 days old when I learned this. That’s a bit of a shame, and I hope it’s helped you sooner.

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Wow, day 30 of #30Inks30Days is finally here! Kind of a long post; y'all have been warned.

https://www.cheryllindojones.com/personal/30-days-30-inks-day-30

Thank you for following along! And thanks again to @penaddict for the shoutout. That was very kind of you. 🙂

#FountainPens #inks #handwriting #quotes #AustinKleon #ShowYourWork #30Days30Inks

Hello! We're now on day 23 of #30Inks30Days, and there's a twist in the theme. I also got pretty wordy.

https://www.cheryllindojones.com/personal/30-days-30-inks-day-23

#FountainPens #inks #Diamine #30Days30Inks #handwriting #AustinKleon #ShowYourWork

Hello, All. It's about that time, day 21 of #30Inks30Days. Kind of a short one today, another #Pilot #Iroshizuku.

https://www.cheryllindojones.com/personal/30-days-30-inks-day-21

#FountainPens #inks #30Days30Inks #challenge #handwriting #growth #AustinKleon #ShowYourWork

Our world is an ecosystem in which our only real chance at survival as a species is cooperation, community, and care, but it’s being led by people who believe in an ego system, run on competition, power, and self-interest.

~ Austin Kleon

#quotes #society #reason-and-rationality #austin-kleon #7-for-sunday

https://constantine.name/2023/09/05/cooperation/

Day 4 of the #30Days30Inks #challenge posted. Days 1-3 are linked at the bottom of the post if you haven’t seen them yet.

https://www.cheryllindojones.com/personal/30-days-30-inks-day-4

#30Inks30Days #FountainPens #inks #quotes #AustinKleon #StealLikeAnArtist #blog

Not just artists – we all go through life’s ups and downs, good periods and bad. Right now is the least tolerant time since I’ve been alive. Everyone’s supposed to be on it 24/7.

Viewed in the context of the episode, Sylvester is talking, specifically, about the “professionalization” and “commercialization” of art, […]

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/05/19/bad-work/

“These days, most of us, carry a fully functional multimedia studio around in our #smartphones.“ – Austin Kleon

#creativity #Art #showyourwork #austinkleon

"Don't make stuff because you want to make money-it will never make you enough money. And don't make stuff because you want to get famous-because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people--and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts."

-John Green #creativity #writing #keepgoing

From #AustinKleon’s “Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in good times and bad”

A first for me, a collage cover of a sketch book I plan to use as an art journal. Pretty excited by the possibilities. Thanks to Austin Kleon for being such a ready source of inspiration!

#austinkleon #artjournal #collage #mercury #hermes #fungi #rootedtree #rhythmsinrelationships #personalruleoflife

Two books about creativity I’ve been enjoying - one old, one new. A Whack on the Side of the Head (1983) Keep Going (2022) Almost 40 years between them but lots of commonality. Both uplifting, positive, strategic. #austinkleon #rogervonoech