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Bought this to buddy read with my partner ❤️ between his art (pictured) & my writing we hope to find some systems to build new creative habits

Ingmar Bergman. #24b4monday
I forgot to start tracking my time.
About 2 hours yesterday. (I‘m loving Mrs. Saint and the Defectives.)
Today‘s reading time: some. 😂

Starting the #24b4monday day with this one. It's been on my TBR for ages.

Recommended by Todd Henry, author of the thought-provoking and challenging The Accidental Creative and Louder then Words (and others).

Reading this in the mornings makes me want to be more productive during the day. Just a couple of pages everyday. Notes on great, funny or ingenious ways to get to work.

Bedtime reading 📖

“Writers always devise ways to approach that place where they expect to make the contact, where they become the conduit, or where they engage in this mysterious process.” ~ Toni Morrison

#writers #goals #work #motivation #writersoflitsy

Pile o' books I've been using as reference for various book-related creative questions I've had (such as how do different writers structure their introductions?) 📚 #amwriting

An outgrowth of his “Daily Routines” blog, this book gathers paragraph long entries about the creative routines of 160 artists, writers, composers, scientists, architects. Ranging from Beethoven to Twyla Tharp and Maya Angelou to Immanuel Kant this book was a very quick read and fascinating.

This is simply a book detailing famous personages‘ daily routines. It is surprisingly fascinating. I think it is so, because we are eavesdropping on their lives. #MMDbookclub #24in48 #24in48readathon #bookflight First book done.

When your book buying is unregulated, you end up with one more copy than you need. I‘m reading the paperback copy, but I prefer the dust jacket of the hardcover copy. This is an interesting compilation of famous personages‘ routines. I thought it would be dry reading, but it‘s actually quite entertaining. #MMDbookclub #bookflight

As a flight read with Deep Work, this book outlines the daily routines from a number of creative types - writers, composers, philosophers, painters, inventors and the like. I found the book fascinating. Each short section started with their birth year and death year (if applicable) and I would first see how many years they lived compared to what they accomplished. Convicting! #mmdbookclub #idratherbereading

Artist Blogging West Highland White Terrier Perylene Red Dark Chocolate Cuban Coffee Tea Roses Summer Chicago Cubbies and Alabama Crimson Tide. Thanks for the fun @hermyknee #litsylovelist

This was recommended to me today, and though I've already read it, it was worth a revisit. #inspiring #thewriterlife

I've been wanting to read this for ages and it didn't disappoint. It was fascinating to learn about the daily routines of so many creative geniuses. I was particularly encouraged by how many of the authors wrote only in their spare time and held down other jobs. To think that 2 hours writing a day is what amazing authors like Toni Morrison and Agatha Christie averaged is hugely encouraging. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Listening to this awesome inspiring audiobook, and putting the finishing touches on this painting I've been working on for you lovely Littens! 😊 ❤️ 🎨 Should be ready to show you soon!

I found this book to be thoroughly enjoyable and fascinating. It really got me to thinking about myself given that I am a person with habitual daily rituals. As is true with many books that we love, its great to learn we are not alone, that there are those out there somewhere who may think and act like us in some regards.

I have never been able to compose unless sure that no one could hear me.-Igor Stravinsky (I wonder why many find the creative process to be so grueling?)

He shut himself up in his room for whole days, weeping, walking, breaking his pens, repeating and altering a bar a hundred times... 😳(So interesting)

I am pretty sure that this will be a fun and fascinating read. I will plow through it quickly and let you know.

Fascinating view into the lives of writers, composers, etc. Not one I felt compelled to read cover to cover, but I did enjoy reading about those writers familiar to me. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Guess who's back 🤗
I had a short hiatus because of some family issues! I finally feel alright to come back, hopefully I haven't missed out on much! 🌿
// Bought these two today at a bookstore! So aesthetically pleasing
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#literature #classic #author #art #artists

#24in48 #readathon recap! Top row is books I read and am still reading; bottom row is books I read start to finish during the Readathon. Not bad! Some really good stuff here. Any jump out at you? Something you've read, something you want to read? 😊📚🤗

Has anyone read the book "Daily Rituals"? It's been years since I did, but I sometimes find myself spouting random trivia that's stuck with me.

For instance, I just had a conversation with my husband about smuggling things into the country (strange foods, mostly) & I off-handedly mentioned that time Patricia Highsmith smuggled live snails into the U.S... under her boobs. ??

I find people's daily routines interesting so this book appealed to me. Lots of artists have structured schedule of rising, eating, & working. But twice as many couldn't function without pills to wake & work and pills to sleep.
Fascinating.

Just a few pages in and I have learned that Thomas Wolfe needed to stroke his creative energies.🍆 #euphemism 🤷

Enjoyed this. Less of a book to read front to back than to dip in occasionally. Brief descriptions of the artists' daily practices. Some of the anecdotes are simply fascinating. On Patricia Highsmith: "When she later moved to France, Highsmith had to get around the prohibition against bringing live snails into the country. So she smuggled them in, making multiple trips across the border with six to ten of the creatures hidden under each breast."

Come for the books, stay for the bookish cocktails! #booksandbrews

When you put together a care package and you're so pleased with the ribbon that you have to take a pic before taping it shut and mailing it.

Since I'm floundering, ritual-less, I decided to start on this.

Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995): "Ill at ease around most people, she had an unusually intense connection with animals—particularly cats, but also snails, which she bred at home."

Francis Bacon (1909–1992): “I often like working with a hangover,” he said, “because my mind is crackling with energy and I can think very clearly.”

W. H. Auden (1907–1973): Auden regarded amphetamines as one of the “labor-saving devices” in the “mental kitchen”.

Interesting idea. Plan on reading a chapter or two a day.

I love this book. I've gotten it twice from the library now and probably just need to buy it.

"I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentences I have." - James Joyce

As someone struggling with my own academic and creative pursuits, it's refreshing to peruse these short blurbs about some of my favorite people and be forced to remember: there is no right way. You do you.