Creativity And Isolation

Book Links (Other links are in the full show notes):
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The Children of Blood and Bone
The Children of Virtue and Vengeance, Audible
The Vanished Birds
The Well Of Loneliness

FULL SHOW NOTES & LINKS:

Hey, hi and hello! Welcome to Creative4evr. The podcast dedicated to keeping you forever inspired, forever motivated, forever creative, and forever YOU.  I am your host, Janet, a.k.a. Jai//Em, a.k.a. the voice inside your head, a.k.a. your biggest fan, and together we’re going to get some creative shit done.

I want to thank everybody who listened to our last episode with my wife Kate as guest! We talked about High Fidelity, and it was so much fun! We had a great time and what sucks is we were talking about the book, the movie and the TV show for like 2 and ½, maybe 3 hours so I had to cut the shit out of our talk, which is so unfortunate but you know, that's that's how the cookie crumbles.  I wanted the show to be 45 minutes or less and I think it was like 43 minutes or something so we did what we had to do, but it was such a great time. Thank you so much for listening and if you haven't listened, Kate and II talk about, High fidelity the Hulu series / book by Nick Hornby / movie that was made in 2000 starring Jack Black and John Cusack. We had a nice time talking about the story, but also talking about obsession, and about songs that you lose once you break up with someone, and if love songs make you depressed or not. We had a nice time, went off on a few tangents and it was great!

Okay, so I have been trying to figure out how I want to address the Coronavirus (Covid-19) on the show. Now as you know, we aren't a news or current events podcast, we are not a health and safety podcast but, this virus, this world crisis is affecting all parts of our lives and that includes our creative lives. So many of us have been asked to isolate, to self-quarantine, some cities are enforcing a shelter in place... Now that all of this is happening and most of us have to stay at home, this is a good week to think about the creative things we finally have time to do.

#1) READ -- The first thing everybody can be doing is reading! My god read a book. Okay, if you don't read at least one book during this crisis, I mean, I don't know why I'm threatening you. I can't threaten you, but this is certainly something you can do, there has got to be a book on your shelf you've been meaning to read. And if not, there's certainly something on your shelf you should read again. I am a huge advocate for experiencing something creative more than once. You will always find something new in a book when you read it for a 2nd or 3rd time. If holding a book in your hand is too much and you just can't handle it, sign up for Audible and let someone read a book to you. There is a 30-day free trial which is plenty of time to listen to at least one book. Of course there are links in the show notes. Check out Audible, let someone read a book to you. It's super easy and you will get addicted to it.

#2) LEARN HOW TO USE DEVICES/TECH IN YOUR HOUSE -- This is easy! This is something that we take for granted. We buy a fancy phone or we buy some kitchen appliance or whatever and then we don't really learn how to use it. We get an app that does the one thing that we kind of want it to do, but it also has