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melodysbookhaven · 9 months

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“Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.”

Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

#elizabeth gilbert #big magic #bookblr #bookish #book quotes #books #quotes #bookstagram #booktok #book tumblr #reading #book club #book lover #bibliophile #bookworm #book worm #readers of tumblr #booklr #book community

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sunsetquotes · 1 year

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Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

Elizabeth Gilbert; Big Magic

#elizabeth gilbert #big magic #text #quote #quotes #love #love quotes #life #life quotes #relationship #relationship quotes #beautiful #aesthetic #art

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stupidbluegirl · 7 months

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Post 1 of 4 of pics of Shane Matthews/Matt Lee/Matt Menard from my journey down a Chikara rabbit hole. These are from the 2012 Chikara Fan Conclave. I cropped the poor innocent fans out for privacy's sake. Click to embiggen yadda yadda yadda.

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#shane matthews #big magic #matt lee #matt menard #daddy magic #2point0 #3point0 #chikara #pro wrestling #aew

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wellconstructedsentences · 1 year

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A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner — continuously and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you — is a fine art.

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

#big magic #elizabeth gilbert

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hereforthepotions · 4 months

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I'm trying to fill a sketchbook in 2024, but I'm stumped with this guy. I don't know what outfit to give him. Does anyone have any suggestions?

#wip #art wip #my art #wizard #wizblr #art #concept art #sketch #sketchbook #traditional art #character design #All I know is big goob and big hat #you know what they say about big hats...#big magic #big man

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yellowlabyrinth · 7 months

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"For most history people just made things, and they didn't make such a big freaking deal out of it". - Elizabeth Gilbert

#elizabeth gilbert #big magic #big magic quote #inspirational #inspiring quotes #inspirational quotes #creativity #creative inspiration #writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr #life quotes #quoteoftheday #book quotes #nonfiction

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glitteringkatie · 1 year

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Refrigerator Art

I read a lot about creativity. I see myself as a creative person, but not in a field that is traditionally seen as “creative”. But what is creativity? Creating. You create something for some reason and put it out there.

Then what is software? That’s creating code to teach a crystal with lightning how to show the internet. I digress. This isn’t a post about why software is a creative trade.

Back to reading. I’ve found a pattern of books that spark my creative interest: they focus more about sharing your work or making space in your head to make the work than anything else.

Both Show Your Work by Austin Kleon and Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte talk about this concept of bite sized work. They call this work “stock” or “intermediate packets”, respectively. And respectively? I hate those terms.

So I’m going to make refrigerator art. Refrigerator art is bite sized, something you see when your main point isn’t to Observe Art™, and there is no pressure on quality. If a 6 year old can make art deemed worthy of the refrigerator in a day, then so can I.

I’m not sure what medium this will take—infographics, mini blog posts, water color, lil doodles, whatever. But it doesn’t matter. The sheer fact that this refrigerator art is coming from my brain means it is a cohesive body of work. I’m what ties it together!

But maybe you can expect a more deep dive into these books I’ve found creatively intriguing. But also this isn’t an assignment to me. I CAN DO WHAT I WANT.

It’s Refrigerator Art ✨

(Find all books from graphic on my list on Bookshop.org)

#creativity #refrigerator art #show your work #building a second brain #creative quest #the extended mind #big magic #bored and brilliant #austin kleon #tiago forte #annie murphy paul #elizabeth gilbert #manoush zomorodi #questlove #personal manifesto

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isabelcanasauthor · 1 year

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I’m jaded and tired but today I listened to the whole audiobook of Big Magic and it was actually quite lovely

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ashestrashes · 1 year

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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear (2015) by Elizabeth Gilbert

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~3.5 hours (~1 min/pg)

"Creativity is sacred, and it is not sacred. What we make matters enormously, and it doesn't matter at all. We toil alone, and we are accompanied by spirits. We are terrified, and we are brave. Art is a crushing chore and a wonderful privilege. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you."

Are you a creative person? Do you often feel like you're the "tortured artist" type? Do you love to create but the process loses it's excitement once you're deep in the trenches of an idea?

In this book Gilbert uses her talents in clear explanations and quick storytelling to put together an easily digestible idea: creativity is not something you have. Creativity is a force of nature that finds you. You can choose to work with this force or you can let it find someone else. You can work in harmony with this creative spirit, or you can let it torture you. Only one thing is certain- working with the spirit of creativity leads to a very interesting life.

From the perspective of a relatively new folk witch, it was refreshing to read a surprisingly very spiritual book written before the spiritual/occult book boom that we are currently in and post the Wicca book popularity of the 90s. Some parts of Big Magic are so witchy in fact that they reminded me of alter spaces, novena prayers, and cross roads contracts!

I feel like I got a lot out of this book. I definitely have much to think about regarding how I work through my creative process. I didn't realize how fearful I was until Gilbert called me out with examples of why people don't follow through with their creative endeavors. I also think that (due to my fears) I became numb to when an idea was actually coming to me. I found this quote written in my journal after my first reading session:

"The hairs on the back of my neck stood up for an instant, and I felt a little sick, a little dizzy. I felt like I was falling in love, or had just heard alarming news, or was looking over a precipice at something beautiful and mesmerizing, but dangerous." -Elizabeth Gilbert

#big magic #elizabeth gilbert #book review #bookblr #creativity #spirituality #witchblr

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plalotaris · 4 hours

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She's growing up so fast

#my ocs #big magic #fusionfall #cartoon network #babble #please ask me about her

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suiheisen · 3 months

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women………….. | DOROHEDORO

(by the way. this is noi.)

#spiritually this too is yuri #do you like BIG BEEFY WOMEN. magic. blood. general bizarreness and hijinks???#then watch dorohedoro #and read the manga!!! (which is drawn by a woman. who draws big beautiful waifus)#dorohedoro #anime #q hayashida #manga #blood tw

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melodysbookhaven · 1 year

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“Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. You don’t need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.”

Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

#elizabeth gilbert #big magic #bookblr #bookish #book quotes #books #quotes #bookstagram #booktok #book tumblr #reading #book club #book lover #bibliophile #bookworm #book worm #readers of tumblr #booklr

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diaryandgirl · 3 months

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I've been thinking about creativity and creative living a lot this week because during the storm clouds that 2024 has started off with, my blog and YouTube channel have been the silver linings. this realisation was prompted by re-reading Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic which raises questions about what it means to be a creative person and live creatively. I have also finally made some progress on Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism, and he writes about the importance of solitude for mulling over our thoughts and coming up with new ideas.

my goal for the year is to upload one YouTube video every month, and I'm keenly aware that we are now officially in the late January days. I've filmed a bit here and there but I feel extremely self-conscious and disgusted by my subpar work. it is of course not helpful to then watch YouTube videos in this state as comparison thickly settles in, but that is what I have done.

inspired by these two books, I have committed to a plan: I will film and scrape together a video that is to the best of my abilities as my abilities are right now. it is painful to be a beginner but as they say, the only way out is through. and until my video is complete, I will not be watching any YouTube videos of a similar genre. at this point, the work of others is a distraction that sinks my self-confidence. eyes on my own paper video!

💌 xoxo

#growth #inspiration #motivation #big magic #digital minimalism #inspo #goals #confidence #diary #diaryandgirl

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stupidbluegirl · 7 months

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