Link Roundup for 2 October 2012

I’m in favor of getting excited and making stuff. Here are six articles I’ve read recently that are helping me do that.

• Patton Oswalt talks about the changing landscape for creative professionals.
• Chuck “I Like Lists of 25 Things” Wendig shares twenty-five ways to survive as a creative person.
• Robert Sapolsky explains the neuroscience of metaphors.
• And Anne Murphy Paul shows us your brain on fiction.
• Eric Zimmerman is writing a haiku every day.
• Jay Smooth sits down with Brother Ali to talk about the Little Hater.