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110+ Resources For Creative Minds
by Skellie

An innovative light-bulb design.Tips, tutorials, exercises and inspiration from the fields of visual art, writing, photography, blogging, design and invention. Next time you’re stuck for ideas or inspiration I hope you’ll find something here to get your right brain firing. A tip: sometimes the best sources of inspiration often lie far outside your own creative field.

1. 7 Can’t-Miss Ways to Kick-Start The Writing Habit
Write nothing but headlines. Write crap without feeling guilty. Schedule and show up. Write about problem solving. Edit older articles. Type out other people’s articles. Add your tip. [Tips: Writing]

Thomas Edison.2. The Wisdom of Thomas Edison
“I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.” [Inspiration: Quotes]

3. Web Urbanist
Urban Culture, guerilla communication and street art images. [Inspiration: Art & Culture]

4. 100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write
Chris Brogan’s challenge to bloggers should be fuel for dozens of innovative post ideas. [Ideas: Blogging]

Soldier stencil.5. Stencil Revolution
Thousands of innovative stencil artworks, from on and off the street. [Inspiration: Art]

6. How to Survive Creative Burn-out
“But the day it hits you, the world seems suddenly grey. What was once fun and challenging feel stupid and annoying. Or perhaps the things that used to motivate or move you don’t resonate at all. You feel nothing for them. It all just seems like so much more crap to deal with. If this sounds familiar, or you fear that this day is in your future, this essay is for you.” [Tips: Creativity]

Dream Anatomy.7. Dreaming the Industrial Body
“In the early 20th century, Fritz Kahn produced a succession of books on the inner workings of the human body, using visual metaphors drawn from industrial society—assembly lines, internal combustion engines, refineries, dynamos, telephones, etc.” [Inspiration: Art]

8. Complete Your First Book With These 9 Simple Writing Habits
Writing time. Simple tools. Writing log. Idea time. Capture ideas. Just start. Write when inspired. Revise. Book bible. [Tips: Writing]

9. 15 Design Decisions That Annoy Readers
Sometimes we learn more about what we should do by reading about what we should always avoid. [Tips: Design]

10. Seth Godin on Big Ideas
“History is littered with inventors who had “great” ideas but kept them quiet and then poorly executed them. And history is lit up with do-ers who took ideas that were floating around in the ether and actually made something happen. In fact, just about every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.” [Inspiration: Creativity]

Cory Doctorow.11. Cory Doctorow on Giving It Away
Doctorow is a sci-fi writer who made his fortune by giving away the fruits of his best ideas. This article might just change the way you think about exchanging creative works for money. [Inspiration: Creativity & Money]

12. Pingnews Collections @ Flickr
A massive selection of public domain historical photography from around the world. [Inspiration: Photography]

13. A Brief Message
Pithy thoughts and theories on design and innovation in sub-200 words. The design of the site is ever-changing. [Inspiration: Design]

Timothy Ferriss.14. Timothy Ferriss on Doing The Impossible
“The key to finding means to accomplish the “impossible” is asking the right question: “How would you do ____ for a week if your life depended on it?” Most things considered impossible just haven’t been looked at through the “how” lens of lateral thinking.” [Tips: Innovation]

15. Battling Blogger’s Block
“It’s all very well and good to join a conversation - but look for the gaps in conversations also and you might just find yourself starting a whole new line of thought.” [Tips: Blogging]

16. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use
TEDBlog promises to provide ideas worth spreading, and this list delivers. 100 innovative websites in the knowledge, arts, e-commerce, search and resource fields: some you will know, others you won’t. [Inspiration: Web]

17. How to Write a Book: The Short Honest Truth
“Writing a good book, compared to a bad one, involves one thing. Work. No one wants to hear this, but if you take two books off any shelf, I’ll bet my pants the author of the better book worked harder than the author of the other one.” [Tips: Writing]

Language is a virus.18. Language is a Virus
Helping you cure writer’s block with generators, exercises, visuals, brainstorming and names you can pilfer.

19. “Where do you get your ideas?”
“Frankly, I have trouble just understanding the question — how can you not get ideas?” — Lawrence Watt-Evans [Tips: Ideas]

The world without us.20. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
This interactive Flash display is Alan Weisman’s projection of the changes the world would undergo without us on it. Sometimes imagining the inconceivable can be a great way to get the mind working differently. [Inspiration: Innovation]

Moleskine project.21. Moleskine Project
The Moleskine notebook has been an idea catcher for creative thinkers across generations. This blog collates doodles and illustrations from creative minds — the only requirement is that they’re committed to a cream-colored Moleskine page. [Inspiration: Art]

22. 101 Great Posting Ideas That Will Make Your Blog Sizzle
Philip Liu ensures every blogger has plenty of ideas saved up for a rainy day. [Ideas: blogging]

Diastema's toy photos.23. Diastema’s Toy Photos
Flickr is home to many innovative photographers and Diastema is one of them. Her tiny toy collection finds itself in all kinds of unusual, colourful and perilous situations. [Inspiration: Photography]

Little people.24. Slinkachu’s Little People
The artist’s tiny people help us to see the world from a different perspective. More innovative photography to get you approaching things from a new angle. [Inspiration: Photography]

25. Collected Creativity Quotes
“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” — Edward de Bono [Quotes: Creativity]

Seth's eye.26. Seth Godin on Creativity
“99% of the time, in my experience, the hard part about creativity isn’t coming up with something no one has ever thought of before. The hard part is actually executing the thing you’ve thought of.” [Tips: Creativity]

27. Creative Thinking Hacks
“On the new creative landscape you’ve made, place the following simple definition: an idea is a combination of other ideas. Say it five times out loud. Say it to your cat. Yell it out you car window at strangers waiting for the bus.” [Tips: Ideas]

28. Idea Recording
Comprehensive article outlining the various ways ideas can be recorded. Thomas Edison and Da Vinci used notebooks, but your tastes might be different. [Tips: Ideas]

FOUND.29. FOUND Magazine
“We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s life.” [Inspiration: Culture]

30. How Do You Woo The Muse?
“You can’t passively eye the beautiful muse sitting at the bar, waiting and hoping for her to approach you. You have to go to her, promise her greatness, and hope that she accepts your pitch - and maybe, just maybe, stays on for the long haul.” [Tips: Creativity]

Wildcard.31. Wildcard.jp.org
When it comes to design, the Japanese are world leaders. Physics, art, minimalism and interactivity merge into one interesting user experience. Bliss out to the ambient music, make some shapes and slip into a different way of thinking. You can change the visualizations via the controls at the bottom. [Inspiration: Art]

32. Classic Cat
Some of the greatest creative works in history were conceived and executed whilst the complex strains of classical music filled the air. Classic Cat hosts hundreds of free and legal downloads from well-known composers. [Inspiration: Music]

gaping void.33. gaping void
Hugh McLeod has churned out thousands of poignant and thought-provoking cartoons in his time. Subscribe to his blog for a regular stream of pithy thought and philosophical doodles. [Inspiration: Art]

34. Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?
Trying to find the “right” answer. Logical thinking. Following rules. Being practical. Play is not work. That’s not my job. Being a “serious” person. Avoiding ambiguity. Being wrong is bad. I’m not creative. [Tips: Creativity]

35. How to Write Remarkably Creative Content
“Inspiration from other sources is what creativity is all about. It seems that many people believe creativity involves pulling a completely brand new idea out of thin air. In truth, creativity is an adaptive process that consists of looking at the same existing thing everyone else is and thinking about it differently.” [Tips: Creativity]

DFCKR.36. Flickr as a Source of Inspiration
28 inspirational photo pools for designers, from AdBusting to Typography to Illustration. [Inspiration: Photography]

Chicken.37. 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration: Online & Off
It’s resources like these that explain why Freelance Switch has experienced such phenomenal growth. This post showcases some outstanding design sites while suggesting real-world sources of design inspiration (yep — you might actually have to swap the light of the computer screen for the light of day). [Inspiration: Design]

38. 37 Sources of Inspiration
A group writing project at Inspirationbit.com saw 37 bloggers outline where they find inspiration on a day-to-day basis. [Inspiration: Blogging]

DeviantART.39. DeviantART
Often unsung, sometimes unknown, occasionally genius: DeviantART allows anyone with talent to showcase their visual art to an audience of thousands. [Inspiration: Art]

Smashing Magazine.40. Smashing Magazine
A resource for web developers and designers, Smashing Magazine never publishes a half-baked post. Amongst the tips, tools, resources and useful lists you’re bound to find something that strikes a creative spark. [Inspiration: Web]

41. xhilarate: supercharged creative bookmarks
The xhilarate team provide us with carefully picked links to cutting-edge web and industrial design, advertising and contemporary art. [Inspiration: Design]

42. The Secret to Getting Others to Talk About You
Ankesh Kothari outlines a creative approach to getting noticed. Chock-full of anecdotes, examples and fine writing, this article is a must-read for any innovative individual hoping to have their talent recognized. [Tips: Innovation]

Green face.43. Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
This blog showcases illustrators and cartoonists dabbling in every genre under the sun and above the ground (though their characters surely sometimes venture beyond both). From graphic novel realists to masters of the stick-figure, this blog is a visual treat. [Inspiration: Art]

44. Digg Labs {Arc.BigSpy.Stack.Swarm}
Digg labs allows you to take a birds-eye view of the content submitted to Digg, with a clear distinction between more popular and less popular content. When brainstorming headlines or post ideas Digg labs can be a useful first port of call. [Inspiration: Web]

Pollock knock-off.45. Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas
Create your own Jackson Pollock-style artwork by moving your cursor and clicking to change the color of your paint. Hit spacebar to clear the canvas. Much cleaner than doing it with actual paint, which is a bonus. [Inspiration: Art]

46. Time to Write: a weblog
Jurgen Wolff’s tips, ideas and inspiration for writers and would-be writers. [Inspiration: Writing]

Skellieton.47. A4 Papercut
Intricate artworks and models cut out of a single sheet of A4 paper. Proof that much can be done with little, and that art is more than the sum of its parts. [Inspiration: Art]

48. New Minimalism in Web Interface Design
A fantastic resource for web designers looking for minimalist inspiration, this page tracks the evolution of minimalist web design and contains a number of useful resources for those trying to achieve it. [Inspiration: Design]

Stick figure.49. xkcd: a webcomic
Romace, sarcasm, math and language: a webcomic to help you laugh and think. [Inspiration: Art]

50. 7 Rules for Maximizing Your Creative Output
“For me the creative flow state is a common occurrence. I usually enter this state several times a week, staying with it for hours at a time. I’m able to routinely enjoy the flow state as long as I ensure the right conditions, which I’ll share with you in a moment.” [Tips: Creativity]

Boing Boing.51. Boing Boing
A steady stream of oddities, ideas, innovation, pop-culture and the unusual: Boing Boing is a virtual tour of the unorthodox. What better way to get you thinking differently? [Inspiration: Web]

52. Sidewalk Chalk Guy
Mr. Sidewalk Chalk busies himself by reinventing the pavement in three dimensions, often placing pedestrians in artificially perilous situations: in hell, or water, or a chasm inhabited by Roman gods. You know, the usual. [Inspiration: Street art]

Face.53. Flickr: Photos Tagged ‘Street Art’
This page seems to update every time you look at it. As far as I’m concerned, street art is where the real artistic innovation is occurring. Any contemporary designer who prides themselves on being located at the cutting edge should have a firm grip on this stuff. [Inspiration: Street art]

54. Top 10 Tips For Overcoming Writer’s Block
“If we think of ourselves as laborers, as craftsmen, it’s easier to sit down and write. We’re just putting words on the page, after all, one beside another, as a bricklayer puts down bricks. At the end of the day, we’re just creating things — stories, poems, or plays — only we use vocabulary and grammar instead of bricks and mortar.” [Tips: Writing]

55. The 6 Myths of Creativity
Creativity comes from creative types. Money is a creativity motivator. Time pressure fuels creativity. Fear forces breakthroughs. Competition beats collaboration. A streamlined organization is a creative organization. [Tips: Creativity]

56. Quick Story Idea Generator
The theme of this story: romantic slice-of-life. The main character: frustrated cab driver. The major event of the story: theft. [Ideas: Writing]

JPG.57. JPG Magazine
Dedicated to innovation in photography. When you’re sick of trawling Flickr for the odd diamond-in-the-rough, great photography can be found here without the hassles. [Inspiration: Photography]

58. 25 Unique Places to Find Story Ideas
“The little things from life’s daily events can also provide dozens of ideas. Anything you do or anywhere you go could supply fodder for your next story. You simply need to keep your mind open.” [Tips: Writing]

59. 111 Instant Blog Post Ideas
Many of these ideas have a business focus, but could be easily adapted to other niches with a little bit of tweaking. Add this list of post ideas to your arsenal and blogging inspiration should not be too far off. [Ideas: Blogging]

60. Projectionist: a tumblelog
Music, images, uncommon words, code snippets and links. Projectionist is one of the web’s best-known tumblelogs, and for good reason. There is so much here that you’re bound to find something that gets your neurons firing. [Inspiration: Web]

61. 10 Killer Post Ideas
While the post idea sets previously provided in this article have emphasized quantity and brevity, this article explores ten ideas in greater detail. [Ideas: Blogging]

62. How to Find Your Creative Zen
“In reality, these Zen-like states are not nearly as unpredictable or as unattainable as you might think. In most cases, they occur as natural fallout from a well-constructed creative process. If you want to live on that free-flowing edge, then you must learn how to force your brain through the sequence of triggers that will result in your own cognitive Zen.” [Tips: Creativity]

StumbleUpon.63. StumbleUpon
Presents the best of the web in what is virtually a slideshow format. Uninspired by a stumble? Then stumble somewhere else with a single click. [Inspiration: Web]

64. Reddit
A social bookmarking service that, unlike StumbleUpon, is less about entire websites and more about specific content. Unlike StumbleUpon you can browse headlines and visit only those than interest you. [Inspiration: Web]

65. Hugh McLeod on How to be Creative
This post is a gargantuan resource collating prolific cartoonist Hugh McLeod’s thoughts on the matter. Some key points: ignore everybody. Don’t count on being ‘discovered’. Avoid crowds. Do it for yourself. Eschew the need for approval, and others. Highly recommended. [Tips: Creativity]

American Gothic.66. 64 of the World’s Greatest Paintings
These paintings are all recognized as outstanding (often legendary) contributions to the world of art. Sometimes nothing brings out our own creativity more than basking in the creativity of the greats. [Inspiration: Art]

67. Fifty Phrases That Kill Creativity
It’s never been tried. Don’t rock the boat. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Let’s give it more thought. [Tips: Creativity]

68. Thinking Like a Genius
“Aristotle considered metaphor a sign of genius, and believed that the individual who had the capacity to perceive resemblances between two separate areas of existence and link them together was a person of special gifts.” [Tips: Creativity]

Blentwell.69. Blentwell
Classical music barely ruffles your white, curly wig? Try Blentwell, the people’s DJ mixset link collective. Whether you’re into rock, hip hop, house or grime, crunk and baile funk, you’ll find a mix to form a suitable backdrop to your creative endeavours. [Inspiration: Music]

70. cre.ations.net
An open showcase of creativity across all fields: from face-mounted lucid dreaming masks to an extravagantly decorated cookie island. [Inspiration: Web]

71. An Interview With Ze Frank
Humorist. Designer. Teacher. Ze Frank is one of the most creative individuals currently calling the web his home. This interview focuses on the creative process behind all of Frank’s projects. [Inspiration: Culture]

72. Manufacturing Inspiration
“Inspiration is a luxury. I do not sit down at my computer spiritually aglow, fingers tapping in ecstasy. I think it’s a bad model for writers. Novels are more like houses, the process of constructing one a long and labor-intensive activity. There are sparks of insight, moments of crystalline clarity, but more often writing resembles brick-laying, a word, a sentence, a paragraph at a time.” [Inspiration: Writing]

73. George Orwell’s 5 Rules For Effective Writing Style
Never use metaphors, similes or other figures of speech you are used of seeing in print. Don’t use long words where a short one will do. Cut out unnecessary words. Avoid jargon. Break rules. [Tips: Writing]

Behance.74. Behance: Make Ideas Happen
Showcasing creative professional work from a number of fields, Behance speaks to creative minds to tease out how and why they work. [Inspiration: Creativity]

Dora Maar.75. Mr. Picassohead
Assemble your own Picasso-style painting from various drag-and-drop shapes and figures. If you’re lucky, cubist painting will lead to cubist thinking. [Inspiration: Art]

76. Anarchaia: a tumblelog
Sure to suit geekier tastes, Anarchaia showcases its contents with minimal commentary and analysis. The simple act of interpreting what you see is a creative exercise in its own right. [Inspiration: Web]

77. Limit Creativity, Get Innovation
“The reasonable person finds this overwhelming. Creativity’s root is the tension filled conflict between the imagination and the physical: input and output, insight and achievement, learning and performing. Remove conflict and there is no need for creativity.” [Tips: Innovation]

78. My Top 5 Sources of Inspiration in Photography
Accomplishments of mankind. Beauty of nature. Other photographs. Challenge. Kids. [Inspiration: Photography]

79. Hack Your Way Out of Writer’s Block
It’s hard to think of a bigger obstacle to productivity than writer’s block. Productivity guru Merlin Mann shares his thoughts on battling with the muse’s greatest enemy. [Tips: Writing]

Cute things.80. 50 Ways to Become a Better Designer
“We approached 17 leading designers working in print, video and on the web, to obtain their words of wisdom on every stage of the design process, from ideas and planning, through to best practice and software skills, and finally putting the finishing touches on their work.” [Tips: Design]

Hironao Tsuboi.81. 100%: Sophisticated Simplicity
PingMag interviews Hironao Tsuboi of Japanese design duo 100%. These guys make everyday objects beautiful — proof that innovation lives everywhere. [Inspiration: Design]

Reduction.82. The Laws of Simplicity
1. The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. 2. Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. 3. Savings in time feel like simplicity. 4. Knowledge makes everything simpler. 5. Simplicity and complexity need each other. 6. What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral. 7. More emotions are better than less. 8. In simplicity we trust. 9. Some things can never be made simple. [Inspiration: Innovation]

83. bubbl.us
A simple, free web application designed to help you brainstorm online. Because sometimes a pen and paper don’t feel like enough — even though they probably are. [Inspiration: Creativity]

84. Essential Resources for Creativity
163 creativity techniques, 30 tips and recommended books from Lifehack.org. [Tips: Creativity]

85. Creativity Techniques From A-Z
“I like to think of these creativity techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as my toolbox at home for DIY. It has a saw, spanner, hammer, knife and all sorts of other things in it, they are all very useful, but you have to pick the right tool (creativity technique) for each job.” [Inspiration: Creativity]

NotCot.org.86. NotCot.org
Innovation in architecture, industrial design, food, gadgets, photography and typography, all presented via photography. [Inspiration: Design]

87. How to Become a Creative Genius
“Our minds are much like a garden. Without proper care, the weeds will take over. Nothing sparks the mind like learning something new.” [Tips: Creativity]

88. How to Stifle Your Creativity in 10 Easy Steps
Be afraid. Remind yourself of all the times you failed in the past. Stay constantly busy. Always try to fit in. Stick to what you know. Always defer to authority. Don’t ask stupid questions. Always listen to your Inner Critic. Leave thinking to the experts. Keep it simple, stupid. [Tips: Creativity]

89. Idea Killers: Ways to Stop Ideas
“Mostly these are used as thought inhibitors: they don’t require any thought to say. They’re used as flinch negative responses, dismissing without explanation. Unlike real critical thinking, which offers a path (e.g if you can overcome x, y and z we’ll consider it) idea killers are lazy dead ends.” [Tips: Creativity]

PostSecret.90. PostSecret
Confessions on postcards — sometimes depressing, often poignant, occasionally funny. These can kick-off ideas in any field. [Inspiration: Culture]

91. Tips for Personal Brainstorming
“By gathering all of the information that you know about your challenge and laying it out in front of you in tangible form, you enable your most powerful problem-solving tool — your brain — to see connections, interrelationships and implications in the information you’ve collected, which would not be obvious if you just kept all of this information in your head.” [Tips: Creativity]

Ad.92. Creative Advertisements Around the World
Images of advertising innovation. Too expensive to be guerilla, so it’s hard to know what to call it. Whatever you want to call it, these ads will make you think. [Inspiration: Advertising]

What?93. Banksy.co.uk
The world’s most notorious street artist, Banksy has made his mark across the globe: from the streets of Great Britain to the West Bank Barrier in Palestine. His art makes the viewer see their surrounds from a very different perspective. [Inspiration: Street art]

94. Interview with Lemony Snicket
Daniel Handler (Snicket’s real name) has had his books turned into movies. In other words, his creativity has made him quite rich. In this interview he talks creativity, productivity, writing routines and perseverence. [Inspiration: Writing]

95. How to Get Creative
“Creativity is all about coming up with new ideas, interpretations and methods and involves thinking and exploring what goes through your mind. It’s a quality that should be encouraged at all walks of life. You need to feed your creative side with inspirational material, give it the time and attention is needs.” [Inspiration: Creativity]

96. Drops of Blood: a weblog
A weblog for fiction writers containing tips, tricks, thoughts and resources. An interesting quote from the main page: “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” — Andre Gide [Inspiration: Writing]

97. 10 Steps For Boosting Your Creativity
“8. Don’t do drugs. People on drugs think they are creative. To everyone else, they seem like people on drugs.” [Tips: Creativity]

ProBlogger.98. How to be a More Creative Blogger
Evolution. Reapplication. Synthesis. Revolution. Changing direction. [Tips: Blogging]

99. 10 Ways to Start a Blog Post
When I look at the people around me . . . If I could, I’d invent . . . It happens the same way every time . . . When I sit down with the news every morning . . . [Ideas: Blogging]

Kottke.org.100. Kottke.org
Jason Kottke has been blogging forever. He consistently unearths valuable nuggets of art and culture from the hidden pockets of the web. Any creative mind will find something to love here. [Inspiration: Web]

101. 10 Tips for Overcoming Writer’s Block
Another article on this perennially troubling topic, to the tune of: make a deal with your Inner Critic. Remember who you’re writing for. Sit down. Stand up. Imagine you’re having a drink with a friend. Leave the house without a notebook. Get trigger happy. Talk to other writers. Have some fun. [Tips: Writing]

102. Set a Deadline to Goad Your Creative Juices
“Strict limits can be a powerful stimulant to the creative process. If you’ve ever been asked to solve a challenging problem with a small budget or a tight deadline, you’ve probably found that you were much more resourceful than if you had been granted a ton of money and time.” [Tips: Creativity]

A painting.103. An Interview With James Warren Perry
Painter James Warren Perry talks idea generation, day-to-day creative habits, burn-out, creativity techniques and productivity. [Inspiration: Creativity]

104. Neatorama
A more mainstream (or perhaps, more accurately, less pretentious) Boing Boing-style blog offering a regularly updated stream of wierd, awe-inspiring and innovative cultural curiosities. [Inspiration: Web]

105. 9 Attitudes of Highly Creative People
“Creative people see problems as a natural and normal part of life - in fact they often have a fascination with problems and are drawn to them.” [Tips: Creativity]

Tumblr Radar.106. Tumblr: Radar
Tumblelogs aggregate the online lives of avid web users. The Radar at Tumblr.com highlights some of the most fascinating tumblelogs hosted on the service. Expect photos, links and quotes without the fluff. [Inspiration: Innovation]

107: Writing Hacks: Starting
“Writing is easy, it’s quality that’s hard. Any idiot who knows 5 words can write a sentence (e.g. “Dufus big much Scott is”). It might be grammarless, broken, or inaccurate but it is writing. This means that when people can’t start they’re imagining the precision of the end, all polished and brilliant, a vision that makes the ugly clumsy junkyard that all beginnings are, impossible to accept.” [Tips: Writing]

108. Seth Godin on Real Creativity
“I think that inventing the unimplementable is a fine hobby, but it’s also a bit of a crutch. Yes, of course we need big visions and big ideas, but not at the expense of the stuff you can actually pull off.” [Tips: Creativity]

109. D. Keith Robinson on Overcoming Writer’s Block
Record everything. Wander the bookstore. Ask a question. Take risks. Take advantage of creative highs. Get the title first. Pay attention to reader feedback. Become a commentator. Go off-topic. Use real-world stories. Take a drive or a walk. Keep writing. [Tips: Writing]

Bird.110. 101 Ways to Brew Up a Great Idea
Take a warm bath. Go for a drive with the windows open. Order Chinese food and eat it with chopsticks. Call a random phone number — ask a stranger. And more: they’re facetious, but they might just work. [Tips: Creativity]

111. Flickr: Explore!
Photos generating a buzz over the last seven days on Flickr, ranked by so-called ‘interestingness’. Regardless of what that means, this service is a great way to get several great images quickly delivered. [Inspiration: Photography]


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85 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. WOW! Great list Skellie!

    I often find my wind wandering and just wanting to browse the ‘net and see what is out there, so this gives me some good resources to check out.

    Thanks!

    Dugg it too!

  2. Thanks for the Digg, Elliott. I’m so impressed by your rapid-fire commenting skills!

  3. I must have just come to your site right after you posted the article. It’s great to see such good resources on here, especially Smashing Magazine! Plus all of the others.

    Gives me great reading material for rainy days and sleepless nights!

  4. Unbelievable, Skellie! Your posts are just so darn useful. It’s ridiculous.

    You know what’s really cool, though? Watching your feedburner chiclet. Does that number jump or what?

  5. wow! thanks so much for the link Skellie! so cool! :)
    and even better as it’s the first one on the list! :D

    Thanks for putting this list together!

    Jon

  6. I think this one is Viral…bookmarked, stumbled, etc.
    Thanks!

  7. Skellie, you crazy linkbaiter, you! This is awesome. If I ever have time (Ha!) to sit down and read something, your list is first on my list. (Ha! Still laughing about having time to read. Ha!)

    As always, fantastic. Stumbled and Dugg.

  8. Skellie - this post is fantastic. Dugg and Stumbled.

  9. Wow Skellie - excellent list! It’ll take me hours and hours to get through all of it!

  10. Thanks all. It was incredibly time consuming to make but I’m really proud of the results.

    I’m making a push for this on Digg (mainly out of curiosity) so any help in that area would be appreciated. Cheers!

  11. Skellie! Your articles are OFF THE CHARTS!! I have never, in 8 years on the Web, EVER seen a blog gain SO MANY READERS in SO SHORT A TIME!!

    You need to run a consulting service on how to grow a blog.

    You’d make MILLIONS and MILLIONS!!

    I don’t know what to say about your dazzling, utterly revolutionary blog, Skellie!! Every time I think I have your blog all sized up, you publish ANOTHER BLOCKBUSTER article!

    WOW!!!!

    If you enroll in that new Teaching Sells course, You will become the next Bill Gates.

    Your blog and its educational articles are priceless, timeless and just plain VIRAL!!

    It’s going to take me another three WEEKS just to read through your LATEST blockbuster post!

  12. You must have taken a very long time to compile this exhaustive list, skellie! I’d definitely need more than a week to read them all! :)

  13. @ Mark: Thanks so much — I really appreciate your enthusiasm. You’ve made my day! :)

    @ Pelf: It did take a long time… if I go into hours it’ll sound a little sad, but yes, it took ages. I hope you find something there you like.

  14. Do you realize how high you’ve set the bar for yourself, Skellie? This is fantastic.

  15. Amazing post and very bookmark-worthy ;)

  16. Wow! What a great post.

    Thanks for this list! It’s so comprehensive.

  17. This article is damn cool…. i cant imagine the effort you made to create this article, but its worth for me and hope for others too…

    I already digged it and count reaches to 365 ;)

  18. Great post Skellie! I’ve written a lot of articles on creativity and know that I have taken some pointers from a few of the ones on your list.

  19. Great creative resource list!

  20. Here is another really good collaborative web-based mind mapping tool for creative minds that might be worth looking at comapping.com.

  21. Dan

    Beautiful list — thanks for including me (interviews #71 and #103 with Ze Frank and James Perry). As others have said, I’ll be back to do more clicking through….

    0Dan aka Cecil (at about-creativity.com)

  22. Bogdan

    Amazing list. Thank you so much for this. I’ll digg it just in case.

  23. WHOA! This list? Just gets on my booksmarks. I will so go back later to read through all this.
    I think I love you right now.

  24. I think by now you feel the time spent on this post was well worth it. I saw a lot of my faves in it, from Hugh to Seth. I commend your effort. It’s actually more than I can handle — so much I just kinda throw my hands up. The big numbers get attention, but who has time for over 110+?, you know? Not me. Something to think about. There is such a thing as too much. It still rocks–maybe I’m just lazy! :D

  25. What a exceptional list. Bravo!

  26. This is a WHOPPER of a post!

    I only actually made it to number 10 this time since I keep clicking on the links and spending TOO MUCH time on the listed sites!

    I think it’s going to take me a LONG time and SEVERAL visits to get to the bottom of this list,

    thanks for a fantastic job,
    dave.

  27. ahmad

    fantastic..bravo

  28. look at that list.it is indeed very broad based covering from blogging to photography!!!

  29. I had to come and check to see who is it sending all this new traffic to my blog.
    That must’ve taken a long time to collect all those resources, Skellie. Great job! Thanks for the mention, btw.

  30. What a sensational list Skellie. I’m more than happy to Stumble it.

  31. Aju

    Hi Skellie.. this is really cool, its really a treasure trove of creative resources… thank you for this!!God bless you

  32. Man, what an incredible list. You have really worked hard to get all these together. Thank you for taking the time to share this invaluable list of resources with us. Got my creative juices flowing already.

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