If you were there, thank you so much for coming. If you weren’t there and want to see what books have been obsessing me for the last year. They’re here.

Books

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott BUY IT
• Word by Word by Anne Lamott (live audio version with Q&A) GET IT NOW
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert BUY IT
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport BUY IT
• The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew Chapman BUY IT
• TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking by Chris Anderson BUY IT
• Now Write! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers edited by Sherry Ellis BUY IT
• Creativity and Feature Writing by Ellie Levenson BUY IT

An Amazon list for all of the above is HERE

Additional resources

• Time Well Spent VISIT SITE
• The Guardian “Our minds can be hijacked” Weekend Technology Special READ IT
• The Guardian “Don’t press send… The new rules for good writing in the 21st Century” READ IT
• The Guardian “Boredom is not a problem to be solved. It’s the last privilege of a free mind” READ IT
• The Guardian “Bored? Now you know why.” READ IT

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