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This week for paid subscribers:

1. Challenge #7

2. Rachel Nguyen on her creative process

Austin Kleon has been writing a lot on his blog and Substack. He mentioned something that he wrote in 2018.

• Get Lynda Barry’s What It Is and do the exercises every day in a private notebook.

• One of the reasons I started the list with Lynda Barry is that she speaks of “The Image” (learned from her teacher Marilyn Frasca) — the thing that is alive in the work. If you can learn to work with The Image, it translates to any art form.

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Read something every day

Ray Bradbury suggested creatives to read a story, a poem and an essay every day to inspire them and mix different ideas together.

“I have fed my Muse on equal parts of trash and treasure,” he wrote, and that often included “comic strips, TV shows, books, magazines, newspapers, plays, and films.”

Thank you for giving us the excuse to consume trash. Sometimes you do not know if it is trash until you start consuming. Sometimes it ends up being your favourite TV shows. Comedy TV show is a great place to find inspiration for fictional characters if you are a character-driven fiction writer like me.

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This week challenge

To start fresh and get back to the routine of creating and writing this year, there would be a creative or writing challenge every other week. You can see the first 5 challenges below. The remaining would be accessible for paying subscribers only for the rest of the year. I would also have other creative and writing resources for paying subscribers.

Challenge 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Previously for paid subscribers: Challenge 6

Challenge 7:...