/ March 19, 2011. I wanted to get out of a creative rut and back into making things again. I am partial to books about writing (and the writing life), ideas for new creative projects, journaling, design. I am also interested in reading about other creative people's work process and thoughts: what it means to be creative/a writer/an artist, art vs. commerce, how to deal with the realities of having a creative life vs. other practicalities that you have deal with, etc.

On Diaries/Journals

• ✔ Portfolio of Inspirations
• ✔ How to Make A Journal of Your Life by Dan Price
• An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers by Danny Gregory

On Creative Ideas/Projects

• ✔ 52 Projects by Jeffrey Yamaguchi
• ✔ Living Out Loud by Keri Smith

On Writing

• ✔ Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood
• What It Is by Lynda Barry
• ✔ Bird by Bird by Anne Lammott
• Poemcrazy by Susan Wooldridge
• Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
• What If by Anne Bernays
• Writing on Both Sides of the Brain by Henriette Anne Klauser
• Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

On Design

• ✔ Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister
• Dialogue by Shaun Cole
• How to be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy

On Music

• Clapton's Guitar by Allen St. John
• The Tao of Music by John Ortiz
• This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel Levitin

On nurturing the creative life

• ✔ Daybook by Anne Truitt
• ✔ The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
• One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry
• The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
• The Care and Feeding of Ideas by James Adams
• The Gift by Lewis Hyde

On theories and the creative process

• Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz
• Spark: How Creativity Works by Julie Burstein
• Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland

On stumbling blocks, getting your groove back, and jumpstarting your creativity

• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• Conceptual Blockbusting by James Adams
• Creativity Workout by Edward de Bono
• Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
• A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech
• Kick-Ass Creativity: An Energy Makeover by Mary Beth Maziarz

On creativity in the corporate setting

• Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie
• Disciplined Dreaming by Josh Linkner
• Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries From the Rest of Us by Erik Calonius

/ Asked this on Mefi ☞ [http://ask.metafilter.com/181128/books-on-creativity-for-the-creative-person]. These are books I need to read and buy soon; checkmarks on those that I already have.