{"id":2278,"date":"2010-12-04T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2010-12-07T21:38:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T02:38:13","slug":"merlin-mann-talks-about-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/12\/04\/merlin-mann-talks-about-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlin Mann Talks About Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Link to Erik Lundy's Workplace of the Damned website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.workplaceofthedamned.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"MaxFunCon bears.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/maxfuncon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"384\" \/>Erik Lundy<\/a> is a very funny guy and one of the people in my closest circle of creative friends with whom I chat about anything and everything.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never met Erik in real life, even though he lives in the same town in Missouri where my father lived. Still, that hasn&#8217;t stopped us from talking about the craft of writing and art since the mid 90s.<\/p>\n<p>During some recent e-mail volleys, we chatted about how much more productive we became once we stopped worrying about the perfect creative environment and just produced.<\/p>\n<p>Erik mentioned a <a title=\"Link to Maximum Fun's Sound of Young America site.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/shows\/sound-young-america\">Sound of Young America<\/a>\/<a title=\"Link to the maxFunCon website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxfuncon.com\/\">MaxFunCon<\/a> podcast he listened to with <a title=\"Link to Merlin Mann's website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.merlinmann.com\/\">Merlin Mann<\/a> discussing this very thing. (If you&#8217;re not familiar with Merlin Mann, check out the <a title=\"Link to the 43 Folders website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/\">43 Folders website<\/a>. *)<\/p>\n<p>If you need to get off your ass and start creating, listen to the <a title=\"Link to the MaxFunCon interview with 43 Folders' Merlin Mann.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxfuncon.com\/2010\/02\/maxfuncon-podcast-episode-11-merlin.html\">26-minute interview with Merlin Mann<\/a> for four great tips about scrapping all excuses and just producing!<\/p>\n<p>(You now have no excuse not to have a pile of work by this time next year.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>* And if you&#8217;re not familiar with the 43 Folders concept, it&#8217;s a damn good way to stay on top of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Lundy is a very funny guy and one of the people in my closest circle of creative friends with whom I chat about anything and everything. I&#8217;ve never met Erik in real life, even though he lives in the same town in Missouri where my father lived. Still, that hasn&#8217;t stopped us from talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}