{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/f8cf3133-0543-5b5b-85cb-e7a4e48bfaf5/de1c495a-28f1-4479-95ee-b8acfb81c2ac?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Daily Rituals of Artists with Mason Currey","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6202ac9f5668e761825372c3/6202acf6484f8e0014358e06.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>In an effort to understand his personal optimal rythm and flow, Mason Currey&nbsp;set out to amass as much information as he could find about the routines “brilliant and successful” creators adopted and followed. The result of his research was a book titled&nbsp;<em>Daily Rituals: How Artists Work</em></p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>How Mason started developing rituals for his own craft of writing</strong></li><li>Why Mason left a job at a library for a crash course in publishing</li><li><strong>Balancing a day job with a creative project that is fulfilling&nbsp;</strong></li><li>Finding the motivation and fire inside yourself to create&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Why the stuff you do for money isn’t always your best creative work</strong></li><li>Building a bridge between your creativity and making a living&nbsp;</li><li><strong>How imitation of other artists destroys your creativity&nbsp;</strong></li><li>Finding your optimal rhythm and flow for your work&nbsp;</li><li><strong>Why you can’t sit around waiting for inspiration to strike&nbsp;</strong></li><li>The reason most successful creative people have a very strict routine</li><li>Why doing the work gives you the ideas&nbsp;</li><li><strong>A look at the creative process across multiple art forms&nbsp;</strong></li><li>Avoiding distraction and carving out space for creating&nbsp;</li><li><strong>How correspondence use to be a useful corollary to creative work</strong></li><li>Becoming obsessed with your creative problem&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>&nbsp;Mason Currey is a writer and editor living in Los Angeles. His first book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, was published by Knopf in April 2013</em></p>","author_name":"Srinivas Rao"}