Amidst the Chaos: A Creative Burnout Journey Part 4
GETTING HELP:
I’m a big reader so when I want to learn something new about something the first place I turn to is books. As I’ve detailed in my previous posts about my creative burnout (here, here, and over here) I started to climb out of that dank, dark, pit of overwhelming creative fucking doubt and burnout and one of the ways I did it was with a bunch of books. I started with one and one led to another artist, or writer, or somebody else with insight on creativity or work process or hell, even how working 40 hours a week is bullshit and likely your boss is trying to steal your life (like mine was).
I reread a lot of these and have written in, noted, dog-eared, sticky-noted, and highlighted the shit out of these. Maybe they’ll help you along the way as well…
THE BOOKS:
Steal Like and Artist, Show Your Work, and Keep Going by Austin Kleon
The Creative Career Path, and Creative Pep Talk by Andy J. Pizza
Find Your Artistic Voice, and Art Inc. by Lisa Congden
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Shut Your Monkey, and The Creative License by Danny Gregory
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Freelance, and Business, and Stuff by Amy Hood and Jennifer Hood
Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Typography Sketchbooks by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico
Pretty Much Everything by Aaron James Draplin
The Golden Secrets of Lettering by Martina Flor
In Progress by Jessica Hische
Scream With Me: The Enduring Legacy of the Misfits by Tom Bejgrowicz and Jeremy Dean
Go Team Venture! The Art and Making of The Venture Bros.
METAL MOMENT:
The ultimate fucking anthem about not reveling in the past and being present in the now.