Books like To be an artist by Camille Colatosti

Steal Like an Artist is a visually engaging guide that translates Austin Kleon’s viral lecture into actionable advice for writers, artists, designers, entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to make things in the digital age.

The Artist’s Way offers a practical, twelve‑week guide of creative exercises and reflective practices designed to help writers, musicians, painters and other artists unlock and sustain their creative potential.

A curated collection of the daily habits and routines that powered some of history’s most influential artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers.

Creative Confidence shows how every person can unlock and apply their creative potential in business and everyday life, using insights and examples from IDEO’s design practice.

Presents a set of basic exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the brain's right hemisphere.

Between 2008 and 2017, author John Scalzi wrote fifteen books, became a New York Times bestselling author, and won numerous awards, including the Hugo, the Locus and the Governor's Award for the Arts in Ohio. He also had book deals crater, lost more awards than he won, worried about his mortgage and health insurance, flubbed a few deadlines, tried to be a decent parent and husband, and got into some arguments on the Internet, because, after all, that's what the Internet is for. Scalzi wrote about it all--the highs and lows in the life of a working writer--and gave his readers, and other writers, a glimpse of the day-to-day business of navigating a writing life in today's world. Sometimes these essays offered advice. Sometimes they commented on the practical business of publishing and selling books. Sometimes they focused on the writing issues, arguments and personalities of the day. And sometimes, Scalzi reflected on his own writing life and career, and what both meant in the larger scheme of things. Don't Live For Your Obituary is a curated selection of that decade of advice, commentary and observations on the writing life, from one of the best-known science fiction authors working today. But more than that, it's a portrait of an era--ten years of drama, controversy and change in writing, speculative fiction and the world in general--from someone who was there when it happened... and who had opinions about it all.

Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of eight short stories that explore the lives, creative struggles, and passions of artists and musicians in American fiction.