Author road · 12 Stations · 12 days · Career & Business › Communication
Think with Austin Kleon's tools
12 Stations through Kleon's two books, from making original work out of your influences to sharing it while it happens and keeping a weekly practice that lasts.
We do not re-summarise two short books; we connect them. Steal Like an Artist supplies the making: influences, a project you wish existed, routine and limits. Show Your Work! supplies the showing: process, small daily shares, stories, teaching and staying power. The angle is anyone who has to make work and be seen for it. The order is a teaching order designed by BookYol, not the author's own.
The road, station by station
01Steal what moves you: start a swipe file
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02Make the thing you wish existed
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03Get your hands back into the work
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04Keep your side projects alive
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05Be boring so the work can be bold
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06Choose what to leave out
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A Project with Its Limits
A file of influences is started, a piece of work you wish existed has a rough first version, a fixed weekly slot sits in your calendar, and the project has a deadline, one channel and a maximum size.
07Show the Process
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08Something Small Every Day
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09Tell the story of the work
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10Teach What You Know
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11Be an Open Node, Not Human Spam
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12Stick around: your weekly practice
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Destination: A Practice in Public
A weekly card with a making habit, a showing habit and a helping habit is written, the story of the work has been told at least once, and a review date three months out is set.