Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia Day

I originally downloaded a sample of this ebook, and soon discovered that I needed the printed copy. The printed book gave me the opportunity to write in the book in the space provided, and really let me unleash my creativity in colorful ways (see the pens in the photo).

Unfortunately, I put it aside for quite some time, and it wasn’t until I started reading The Book of Alchemy and following those prompts for a 100 Day project did I come to the realization that I wanted to continue with Felicia Day’s inspiring book.

While both books are gateways to jump starting your creativity, they are vastly different. Jaouad’s Alchemy, I think is geared more towards the writer. All of the prompts, so far have been excellent for my writing. Sometimes I write short little vignettes, sometimes thousand word think pieces. I’m looking forward to re-reading all of these once the hundred days are completed.

Day’s book is written perfectly in her voice – irreverent, with gameplay, fantasy, oddities, and fun, and truly speaks to my Gen X brain. I found some of the exercises nostalgic, some tough to get through, but mostly they were deep thoughts that could be examined seriously or frivolously. And one of the good things about Embrace Your Weird, is you can return to it and try the opposite tack – if you began frivolously, now you can do the same exercise with a bit more serious take.

I thought returning to Felicia Day’s book during the solemn, contemplative time of Lent would be a double exercise to explore myself, my spirituality, and my awkward outwardness.

Embrace your weird, and give Embrace Your Weird by Felicia Day a try. I’m excited to return to it in the next days.