Stay Inspired Finding Motivation for Your Creative Work

An interactive guide to staying creatively curious in your own life, curated by Brandon Stosuy (cofounder of The Creative Independent), with quotes and advice from artists across disciplines The second in a series of three interactive guides dedicated to the practical and emotional sides of living a creative life, Stay Inspired explores how to grow an idea into a project and how to keep the spark of creativity present in your daily life. This guide poses a series of questions on themes of tapping into your own story and circumstances of inspiration, identifying your influences, finding inspiring communities, and initiating partnerships and collaborations. Working artists from all walks of life--musicians, authors, filmmakers, dancers, designers, and visual artists--offer their responses to the questions posed throughout the book, providing an inspirational framework for discovering new ideas, channeling your influences, and making work in conversation with others. Author Brandon Stosuy is the cofounder and editor in chief of The Creative Independent, a growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people. Each day, the site posts an interview about the creative process with high-profile and emerging artists. To date, Brian and his team have done more than 700 interviews, with artists such as Björk, Darcie Wilder, Ocean Vuong, Eileen Myles, Roxane Gay, Melissa Broader, Philip Glass, Stevie Nicks, Sufjan Stevens, Mitski, and more. In Stay Inspired, Stosuy taps into this incredible network of talent to provide diverse (and diverging) perspectives on how creativity can be inspired and channeled into your independent work, collaborations, and communities.