Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)

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The way to be able to take a punch is to practice getting hit a lot. Put out a lot of work. Let people take their best shot at it. Then make even more work and keep putting it out there. The more criticism you take, the more you realize it can’t hurt you. 9. Sell out. Artists love to trot out the tired line, “My work speaks for itself,” but the truth is, our work doesn’t speak for itself. Human beings want to know where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they understand about your work effects how they value it. He even paraphrases other writers like Blake Butler by mentioning the open mode. There is some truth in both the ideas the author is sharing. But he should have expressed his opinion rather than projecting these two ideas onto the readers, which might confuse them.

The chapters point out 10 main thoughts, it is beautifully written, easy to follow, and with some humor in it, while also keeping the content real and useful. Your influences are all worth sharing because they clue people in to who you are and what you do—sometimes even more than your own work. Joni Mitchell. Whatever she feels like was the weak link in her last project gives her the inspiration and the starting point for the next one. sometimes if someone hates something about your work, it can be fun to push that part even further to make somethign they’d hate even more (having your work hated by certain people can be a badge of honour) Third act: the future. Where you’re going, and how exactly the person you’re pitching can help you get thereHonestly I've only ever read maybe three how-to/self-help books that I would say actually helped me. In each case those books gave specifics, not generalizations. The industry however is very much built on genericization and that's exactly what we have here. Because they have little to lose, amateurs are willing to try anything and share the results.” (Sam: Austin’s definition of the amateur is different to Steven Pressfield’s definition in The War of Art . Austin defines the amateur as the beginner.) Kleon started his career in a public library in Cleveland, Ohio. While working in a library, Kleon became a blogger and posted his poems. Kleon also taught library users how to use computers. [10] Kleon taught himself HTML and CSS. When I have the privilege of talking to my readers, the most common questions they ask me are about self-promotion. Woody Allen. T he day he finishes editing a film, he starts writing the next one. he doesn’t take time off in between.

Scenius” is a healthier way to think about creativity – “a whole scene of people supporting each other, looking at each other’s work, copying from each other, stealing ideas, and contributing ideas”. Like Steal, Show is timeless; readers can return to it repeatedly throughout life and still glean useful ideas and tips. It’s a mistake to think this is aimed at young, artsy people, because anyone starting out (or starting over)… will find upbeat encouragement here.” When you feel like you’ve learned whatever there is to learn from what you’re doing, it’s time to change course and find something new to learn so that you can move forward.”

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So it's shallow, disjointed and really not remotely original. And yet it's being gushed over. So, if nothing else, it should encourage you that utilizing this approach to publicity can work for a creator. Almost all of the people Austin looks up to and tries to steal from today, regardless of their profession, have built sharing into their routine. Don’t worry about everything you post being perfect. Science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon once said that 90 percent of everything is crap.”