https://slackersmuse.com/tags/writing-and-creativity/ Recent content in writing-and-creativity on Slacker's Muse Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_woodyguthriesongsandartwordsandwisdom/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_woodyguthriesongsandartwordsandwisdom/ A Review: Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art * Words and Wisdom Title of Work: Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art * Words and Wisdom Author: Robert Santelli Format: Published: Started: Finished: 2025-09-29\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 5/5 Wow… wow wow wow. I’m obsessed with this book – the cartoons and the paintings and the songs and the stories and Woody Guthrie, the man himself. Everything we consume makes us different somehow as it passes through, but it’s usually hard to notice. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_firstwereadthenwewriteemersononthecreativeprocess/ Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_firstwereadthenwewriteemersononthecreativeprocess/ A Review: First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process Title of Work: First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process Author: Robert D. Richardson Jr. Format: Published: 2009 Started: Finished: 2025-07-06\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 2/5 Probably not worth your time. Better off reading the Emerson essays (Nature, The American Scholar, The Poet, etc.) or one of the more substantial Emerson biographies. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_thecreativeactawayofbeing/ Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_thecreativeactawayofbeing/ A Review: The Creative Act: A Way of Being Title of Work: The Creative Act: A Way of Being Author: Rick Rubin Format: Published: 2023 Started: Finished: 2023-12-03\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Felt a little soft at first, a little cliché. I even worried briefly that Rubin might descend into a self-helpification of the creative process. But with time my defenses softened and all of my hopes for this book bubbled into clarity. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_onwriting/ Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_onwriting/ A Review: On Writing Title of Work: On Writing Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Published: 2014 Started: Finished: 2023-03-12\ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 3/5 I found this correspondence collection interesting from two angles: the first, biographical insight into the work of a controversial and prolific writer and the second, as a source of artistic inspiration and encouragement. Finally, it is a selected subset from 50 years of letters and probably only worth reading if you’re interested in Bukowski the man or his take on the craft of writing more generally. https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_onwritingamemoirofthecraft/ Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://slackersmuse.com/posts/br_onwritingamemoirofthecraft/ A Review: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Title of Work: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Author: Stephen King Format: Published: 2002 Started: Finished: \ Posted: Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Packed to the brim with thought provoking material for hopeful writers. Not just wishy-washy “trust your gut” or “show don’t tell” kind of stuff, though it is in there with a healthy dose of caveat. Sound, reasonable methods (with examples) for aspiring and working writers though I do wonder how much the publishing landscape has changed even in the past 5 years relative to when this was originally published in the early aughts.