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Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
It’s Good to Have Goals, Book Edition
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, artists, creativity, genre fiction, illustrators, inspiration, writing on June 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »
A Puzzle
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, making stuff on June 5, 2024| 1 Comment »
We watched Knives Out: Glass Onion a while ago and enjoyed it, but thinking back, what I remember most are the puzzle boxes. In the movie’s opening scenes, each of our main characters receives a wooden box with multiple layers of old-school encryption. Each layer is a mystery that must be solved before it can be opened.
Here’s an example:
While these particular boxes are next level, how on earth, I wondered, are puzzle boxes made?
You too?
Now we need wonder no more.
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Hello Cello
Posted in Entertainment, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, music on May 31, 2024| Leave a Comment »
A few moments of beauty on this Friday afternoon: Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Saint-Saëns’ The Swan | The Kid Should See This.
The video won’t embed for whatever reason but it’s available via the article above.
Enjoy!
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Sweet Dreams
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, Thoughts on May 29, 2024| 1 Comment »
“The Embankment”
Oh, God, make small
The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,
That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie …— T. E. Hulme
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The Future Isn’t Written (Yet)
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Fiction, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on May 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I’m sad that I haven’t written a lot of things, but I’m incredibly happy that I’ve written as much as I have. Because there was a point when I was younger where there was a very good chance that I wouldn’t write anything – I was just too frightened.
— Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Follow Your Own Path
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on May 25, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Doesn’t Always Feel That Way, Though, Does It?
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, back to work!, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on May 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
So I wake up this morning with that age-old cliché in my head: You have as many hours in a day as [Leonardo da Vinci].
Fill in your own preferred goal setter.* Mine changes depending on my current mood and projects. Sometimes it even helps;)
Onward!
* Also, remember that if your exemplar is pre-20th century, your life expectancy is probably double theirs. Strike that, we’re all under enough pressure as it is.
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Legend Reads Legend
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, alice-munro, Fiction, goals, inspiration, short stories, the greats, Writers, writing on May 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »
You may have seen that Canadian author and Nobel laureate Alice Munro passed away this week. A prolific titan of the short story genre, she published her first story in 1950 and continued to produce award-winning work in the many decades since. When asked how she got started in short stories, she said it was because that’s all she had time for.
She certainly made it work.
Here, award-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood reads Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro.
In this exclusive recording, The Handmaid’s Tale author reads the eponymous short story from the late Munro’s first collection in 1968.
If you’d like to read more of Munro’s work, here are 25 Alice Munro Stories You Can Read Online Right Now.
Enjoy!
“A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
― Alice Munro, Selected Stories
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Up From the Depths of Time
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, batty Brits, creativity, inspiration, mudlarking, Thoughts on May 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Once upon a time, children, before mass production and digital copies and backups and cloud synching, it was possible to wipe a thing from the world completely.
Or maybe not? Here’s a fun story about business feuds and artistic obsession!
Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames
The depths of the river Thames in London hold many unexpected stories, gleaned from the recovery of prehistoric tools, Roman pottery, medieval jewelry, and much more besides. Yet the tale of the lost (and since recovered) Doves typeface is surely one of the most peculiar.
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The Art of Flying
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers on May 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“The Guide says there is an art to flying”, said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams
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