Review of From Chaos to Creativity by Jessie L. Kwak
I recently got a big stack of writing craft and books through a Microcosm Publishing Kickstarter, so I’ve decided to work through several of them for reviewing on my blog.
Jessie L. Kwak’s From Chaos to Creativity is designed to help creatives build a creativity system that works for them. It tackles topics related to scheduling, busy work, goals, and creative play, and it’s all presented in a digestible format for all sorts of creative types. Better yet, it doesn’t try to dictate one system as the perfect system–it presents explanations for how systems can help you and options for ways that other people have set up their own systems, but it ultimately emphasizes that the system that works with your brain (whatever that happens to be) is the system that works best for you!
At the beginning of 2022, I worked through some productivity exercises with Jessie that are very similar to some of the approaches detailed in this book. Now that I’ve been using some of those techniques to schedule my weeks and increase my productivity for the past year, reading the book has added some additional aspects for me to think about, going into a new year. In reading the book, I also found that it seems to be the sort of book that becomes even more useful on subsequent rereads, as you can build on the systems you’ve got in place or remember aspects of the systems that may have fallen by the wayside for you. This also goes along with the final theme of the book about testing your system, figuring out the parts that work and don’t work, and adjusting as you need to. So I may be adding a reread of this book onto my calendar for late in 2023, so I can launch into 2024 with more and renewed tools for my creativity and productivity!
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