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Best Blogs on Writing and Creativity

The best writing and creativity blogs from independent authors, poets, and creative thinkers. Reflections on craft, creative process, and what it means to publish on your own terms.

Why These Blogs

Writing about writing can be self-indulgent, but the best of it is genuinely useful — and these blogs are the best of it. Authors sharing what they've learned about finding their voice, poets thinking about form and language, and creative thinkers exploring what it means to make things and put them into the world. In a landscape dominated by platforms, these writers remind you that publishing on your own terms is still possible.

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6 Writing & Creativity Blogs

70s Sci-Fi Art

70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

An exploration of retro speculative fiction artists and themes

Regular

Austin Kleon

austinkleon.com

Notes on creativity, writing, and sharing work online with a zine like feel.

RegularCulture & Internet

from jason

fromjason.xyz

Odes & Satires, and other matters of stuff & things.

RegularCulture & Internet IndieWeb & Blogging

kottke.org

kottke.org

Curated tech and culture links. One of the longest-running blogs (since 1998).

Very ActiveCulture & Internet

Manu Moreale

manuelmoreale.com

Minimalism, design, and the People & Blogs interview series.

Very ActiveIndieWeb & Blogging Design

Robert Birming

robertbirming.com

Personal essays on blogging culture, creativity, and everyday life — plus themes and tools for the Bear blogging platform.

Very ActiveIndieWeb & Blogging Personal