December 23, 2004

how to be creative (book outline)

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“How To Be Crea­tive”
A book by by Hugh Mac­Leod
Down­load the free PDF here.)
This is how I’m star­ting to see the book in its semi-final state. All of the con­tent has already appea­red pre­viously on this web­site.
There are four chap­ters. I’m not sure if they’re in their final order. But this will do for the time being.
Now it’s time to find a publisher.


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CHAPTER ONE: How this book came into being.
This book is an expan­sion on a web post I published this sum­mer called “How To Be Crea­tive”.
The pre­mise is very sim­ple:

“So you want to be more crea­tive, in art, in busi­ness, wha­te­ver. Here are some tips that have wor­ked for me over the years.”

I didn

22 Responses to “how to be creative (book outline)”

  1. I’ll buy it. I’m bored of the Cal­vin and Hob­bes by my loo.

  2. Will Simpson says:

    Where can I pre-order my copy?

  3. Stoc­king stuffer

    Just in time for Christ­mas, the dazz­ling Hugh Mac­Leod has pos­ted an out­line for the book he’s pro­po­sing. If you’re one of the three peo­ple who read me who haven’t read Hugh, it’s a nice intro­duc­tion to his work. Of

  4. Boing Boing says:

    How to Be Crea­tive — the book

    Back in August, I blog­ged about Hugh Macleod’s “How to Be Crea­tive” pro­ject. Hugh draws car­toons on the backs of busi­ness cards and works in adver­ti­sing; his How to Be Crea­tive is a medi­ta­tion on crea­ti­vity, indi­vi­dua­lism and com­mer­cia­lism, and it’s fu…

  5. wipeout says:

    glad you left manhattan.….….

  6. Online ‘book’ on being creative.

    Again, I’m just lin­king this in case I feel like coming back to it later. Follow the link to Boing­Boing for a sum­mary. gaping­void: how to be crea­tive (book out­line) via BoingBoing.…

  7. Forty-two says:

    lotsa links

    I keep a Sticky note open all the time whose con­tent is nothing but links I want to blog about.…

  8. Forty-two says:

    lotsa links

    I keep a Sticky note open all the time whose con­tent is nothing but links I want to blog about.…

  9. Gaping­void via BoingBoing

    how to be crea­tive (book outline) — While the title sounds sort of ele­men­tary, this is some solid rea­ding for…

  10. Graeme says:

    Can we get the car­toons actually prin­ted on busi­ness cards? I’d pay money for that!!
    Graeme unders­core Williams at yahoo dot com

  11. Chaos and Creativity

    I’ve blog­ged about chaos and crea­ti­vity before (here). This from gaping­void struck me: Chaos can be a posi­tive thing. Chaos is inhe­rently part of the crea­tive act. To embrace crea­ti­vity means you must also embrace chaos. Things don’t hap­pen when

  12. Greg Rollins says:

    Thanks for blog­ging this. Pretty dar­ned ins­pi­ra­tio­nal. BTW, loo­king for­ward to purcha­sing a hard copy.

  13. How to Be Creative

    how to be creative…

  14. Infonaut says:

    “Busi­ness insight” is usually an oxy­mo­ron, but you’ve got the real deal here. You’ve given me much to chew on, and I thank you for that.

  15. Sara L. Holt says:

    You and your vision rocks!!!! So much of what I’m rea­ding is exactly how I think!!! Keep roc­kin’ and givin’ out the awe­some help!!!!!

  16. Martin says:

    Where and when can I buy the book? Your ideas are just great!

  17. A quick car­toon from Hugh MacLeod…

    Given my Zen-like state of calm today, this is poten­tially not the kind of thing I should be pos­ting on my site in full view of my boss (hey dude). But it’s funny and it reminds me of a…

  18. Troy Worman says:

    Ori­gi­nal. Funny. Poi-G-Nant! Why the fuck hasn’t it been published???

  19. tcw says:

    I want a book now…
    insa­nely true.…..

  20. How to Be Crea­tive e-book

    Sex and Cash Theory .