Yesterday I wrote a bit about the types of activities that help me keep my creative skills sharp. As I started to compile my list of inspirational things I realized it was pretty long. So I’ve decided to break it up in to several smaller posts.

I’ve created a new category called “inspiration” to make it easy to track these entries in the future. It also allows me to add everything I forgot along the way (I know I’m going to forget a few things).

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Great books to read:

• Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
• Shopgirl: A Novella
• A Map of the World
• The Short History of a Prince: A Novel
• The Prince of Tides
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
• War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
• The Smoke Jumper
• The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
• The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)
• The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)
• Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, Book 4)
• Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)
• Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, Book 6)
• The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7)
• Dragon’s Egg (Del Rey Impact)
• Silence
• Photography: The Essential Way (MyPhotographyKit Series)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• The Adventures of Freak the Mighty
• Weaveworld
• Winners and Losers
• Parables of Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard’s Writings)
• The Kite Runner
• Middlesex: A Novel
• State of Fear
• Pleasure of My Company, The: A Novella
• The Shipping News
• The Shadow of the Wind
• The Crime of Father Amaro
• Citizen Vince (P.S.)
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics
• On the Road (Penguin Classics)
• I Am Legend
• The Great Gatsby