The Purist Trap, Or, Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Killjoys
Ken, author of Mildly Creative, explains the shortcomings of being a purist and advises creatives to leave them to their perfection, while the rest of us make a mess of things.
Nick, the author of handmade in PA, a blog promoting arts and crafts made in Pennsylvania, offers four bits of advice for making one’s craft booth experience a positive one.
Planning for Your Summer’s Artist Dates
Melissa Taylor, writing on Imagination Soup blog, discusses the difficulties of doing a solo “artist’s date” when one has small children, and instead suggests that parents stock up on art supplies now to have a summer filled with family artist dates!
Tina Mammoser, author of The Cycling Artist blog, discusses her 10 year journey to become a full-time artist. Wonderful tips from someone who’s done well in the art world, although not without some sacrifices along the way.
Ten Effective Ways to Strangle Your Muse
Sandy Akers offers 10 counter-productive rules for quashing any trace of creative flow.
Build Blog » Couch Cushion Architecture; A Critical Analysis
Hilarious and dead-on post that parodies the haughty nature of design critique language by grading children’s couch forts. SOOOO funny! Part one of two.

Thanks for the mention — I’m honored!
Melissa of http://imaginationsoup.net
By: Melissa Taylor on May 11, 2010
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Readers, sorry to report the Build Blog series on couch cushion architecture has been PURGED! It was so funny I cannot bring myself to delete the link … I have no idea why they took the posts down!
By: creativeliberty on May 11, 2010
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Thanks so much for including me in this fantastic roundup, Liz!
–Sandy Ackers
Strangling My Muse: Struggling to Live a Creative Life in a Stressful World
By: stranglingmymuse on May 11, 2010
at 5:48 pm
great links!!! thanks:)
By: trish on May 13, 2010
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