Yes, yes, I realize that the last time I wrote my “weekly” Artist’s Way post was a month ago, but I’ve got to start again sometime.
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The Artist’s Way – Week 8
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The Artist’s Way – Week 3
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Creativity is…seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
- Michele Shea
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The Artist’s Way – Week 2
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As your recovery progresses, you will come to experience a more comfortable faith in your creator and your creator within. You will learn that it is actually easier to write than not write, paint than not paint, and so forth. You will learn to enjoy the process of being a creative channel and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practicing your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus.
-Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way, pg. 44
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lucyshouse
Definitely worth it! Just for the satisfaction of completing it! I love that you were able to use some of the affirmations, too. That’s great!
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jennifer
I’m so glad you decided it was worth it. Even if your content with the process for what it is you could still post the essay here or elsewhere. It could still be admired.
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caitlin
wanna email it to me?
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aanna
okay…that could be very therapeutic.
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The Artist’s Way – Week 1
aanna
Remember, your artist is a child. Find and protect that child. Learning to let yourself create is like learning to walk. The artist child must begin by crawling. Baby steps will follow and there will be falls–yecchy first paintings, beginning films that look like unedited home movies, first poems that would shame a greeting card. Typically, the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration…In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly. What we are after here is the healing of old wounds–not the creation of new ones. No high jumping, please! Mistakes are necessary! Stumbles are normal. These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
-Julie Cameron “The Artist’s Way” p. 29
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maria casteel
thank you aanna, this encouraged me very much.
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aanna
i’m so glad! i think you’d really like “the artist’s way”. it makes me do things like what you just did…start creating again.
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“Creativityist” – one who practices creativity
aanna
I’m beginning a new study/exercise in creativity that my brother-in-law, Nick Parsons, recommended to me. (More …)
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matt spiel
for some reason the link to the site doesn’t work… and I think it’s John Chandler who does the website…
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Logan
Thanks for the heads-up matt. The link is fixed.
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Aanna
You’re right. It’s John Chandler. I keep calling him Matt. Sorry, John.
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Jennifer 8:51 pm on November 12, 2008 Permalink |
Oh, I got a little teary-eyed reading this. I’m so glad you are sharing your experience. This may sound silly coming from someone who has only known you from reading your blog intermittently for the past couple months, but I am so proud of you! This kind of break through is what TAW is all about. So now I’ll get back to writing the novel I didn’t know I wanted to write until I did this very same exercise.
kate stoner 3:33 pm on November 13, 2008 Permalink |
yes!!!! i want to read this book.
aanna 6:16 pm on November 13, 2008 Permalink |
you definitely should. it’s amazing. difficult and frustrating and encouraging and amazing.
Ellie 11:05 am on November 15, 2008 Permalink |
Aaahh. You just sobered me and completely delighted me. Your post is so encouraging and I love how you expressed yourself! No matter what you spend most of your time on in the next year (or five, or ten), just know that you are already a respected author…at least by your younger sister!
Love,
Ellie
Logan 11:56 am on November 16, 2008 Permalink |
Ellie I think it’s about time you got your own wordpress. Considering the fact that you’re the writer.
caitlin 8:27 am on November 19, 2008 Permalink |
well well well. Aanna does it again. you’re so rad.
That was great. And i am immensely jealous that you were able to write a song-in one day no less. that’s something i’ve wanted to do for a long time now and 1. don’t put the time to it 2. feel like i am incapable of writing intelligent non-nursery rhyme lyrics. you inspire me!
i’m so happy to read your words and i was delighted in picturing you singing this song to logan.