One of the essential parts of a creative life is making sure that you can keep on creating new things. As MidAmericon II is fast approaching, our intrepid introverts talk about self-care. They touch on both acute situations as well as going the long slog that can sometimes get exhausting. This is a resource-heavy episode with a huge list of links to various things the Mad Writers have found helpful.
Notable Notes
- Emergency Kittens
- Mary Robinette Kowal: Sometimes Writers Block is really Depression
- Superbetter
- Habitica
- Miracle Morning
- Jeff Bridges Sleeping Tapes
- The Bullet Journal
- Nina’s favorite resource for Bullet Journal ideas: Boho Berry
- Franklin Covey
- The Artist’s Way Morning Pages
- 750 words
- Headspace
- Bunny Yoga
- Chuck Wendig: SELF-CARE FOR WRITERS: SOME TIPS!
- List of suicide crisis lines around the world
- The Bloggess Strange and Beautiful with a huge list of self care tips
Recommended Reading
Tim’s recommendation: Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels)
Jay’s recommendation: The Little Prince
Nina’s recommendation: Zoe’s Tale (Old Man’s War)
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Intro and outro music comes from “Cephalopod” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com); licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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