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Monday, January 30, 2012
Daily Check-In #1, Week Three Comments
Are you reading this, or have you decided to be very strict about Reading Deprivation this week? Janis, feeling challenged by the idea, asked me to comment on that aspect of the coming week's TAW experience. In fact, I have a friend who stopped working on The Artist's Way years ago and never picked it up again because she got so angry about this assignment. "I'm a teacher. I can't go a week without reading!" she said.
I'm a teacher too, and today is the first day of the new term, and I can't go without reading, either. But I'm not going to get mad at Cameron and give up on the rest of the experience, because it's valuable to me in so many ways even if I do't do everything exactly "right." That being said--I HAVE been in a position where I could give up reading for a week, and Reading Deprivation IS a powerful tool. You will be astounded at how much creative work you get done when you're not anesthetizing yourself with reading.
That, to me, is the key. I think Cameron is speaking here of reading that anesthetizes. Reading to escape one's life instead of meeting it head on. Reading to avoid being creative. All reading doesn't fit into that category--and, in fact, watching television and endlessly checking personal email both fit much MORE into that category for me.
Cameron's suggestion isn't a law you have to obey. But whatever you can do this week to replace mindless escape with creative work, do it. I'll be interested to hear next week if it increases your productivity.
And if you're up to at least reading notes from your fellow TAWers, you'll find comments from Kay, Margie, Pam, Ann, topangamaria, June, Liz and Janis under the Check-In for Week Three.
I'm a teacher too, and today is the first day of the new term, and I can't go without reading, either. But I'm not going to get mad at Cameron and give up on the rest of the experience, because it's valuable to me in so many ways even if I do't do everything exactly "right." That being said--I HAVE been in a position where I could give up reading for a week, and Reading Deprivation IS a powerful tool. You will be astounded at how much creative work you get done when you're not anesthetizing yourself with reading.
That, to me, is the key. I think Cameron is speaking here of reading that anesthetizes. Reading to escape one's life instead of meeting it head on. Reading to avoid being creative. All reading doesn't fit into that category--and, in fact, watching television and endlessly checking personal email both fit much MORE into that category for me.
Cameron's suggestion isn't a law you have to obey. But whatever you can do this week to replace mindless escape with creative work, do it. I'll be interested to hear next week if it increases your productivity.
And if you're up to at least reading notes from your fellow TAWers, you'll find comments from Kay, Margie, Pam, Ann, topangamaria, June, Liz and Janis under the Check-In for Week Three.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Check-In: Week Three
Recovering a Sense of Power
ANGER
Anger is a powerful motivator. Did anything come up for you this week that "pointed the way" for you, that made you aware of action you needed to take? Did you act in your own best interests to take a step that you needed to take?
SYNCHRONICITY
Linda shared a great story about shopping synchronicity last week, and Pam told us about meeting up with an old acquaintance who just might help her get a manuscript published. Did anyone "take a small step in the direction of a dream" this week and experience a "synchronous door" flying open? Or were you reminded of any of the "thousand unseen helping hands," in Joseph Campbell's words, that have helped you along the way in your creative life?
CRITICISM AND SHAME
I had an experience this week, while working on revisions for a manuscript, of feeling that it just wasn't any good and I should forget about doing any more work on it and chuck it. Then I remembered a critique of the story that came from an editor in a face-to-face group setting. Her words about it were blunt, flippant and not at all useful in producing an "aha!" moment that might have helped me see my work in a new light and point me in a new direction for revisions. I still remember how embarrassed I felt. I wondered if my story really was unworthy, or if I was letting that editor's assessment color my own. My answer to myself is that if the story is true to me and my experience and the sharing of it brings me joy, it's worthy--even if no one wants to publish it.
Anyone else ever had a shaming experience from a critic that rocked your confidence?
GROWTH AND SELF-CARE
It's been a stressful week for me, a lot of things converging to make me feel overwhelmed. I've felt particularly unproductive creatively. AND, it's come up in my morning pages this week that I'm not doing well at self-care--at a time when I most need it! Related to my unproductivity? I can't help but think...
How are you doing at self-care? Do you find that you are more productive when you're taking care of yourself?
MORNING PAGES: Are you finding them helpful?
ARTIST DATE: Are you doing a good job of romancing your inner artist?
WEEK THREE TASKS: Did you find that any of last week's tasks brought significant insights to your creative life?
If you can make the time, check back this week after you've posted your own comment to respond to others' Week 3 experience and to see if someone has responded to yours. There's more of that going on lately. Start a conversation!
Next week's assignment: Week 4, Recovering a Sense of Integrity
"Anger is meant to be listened to [and] acted upon. It is not the action itself. It is action's invitation.... It will always tell us when we have been betrayed. It will always tell us when we have betrayed ourselves. It will always tell us that it is time to act in our own best interests."
Anger is a powerful motivator. Did anything come up for you this week that "pointed the way" for you, that made you aware of action you needed to take? Did you act in your own best interests to take a step that you needed to take?
SYNCHRONICITY
"We all have dark and romantic notions that call to our deepest selves. When we answer that call, when we commit to it, we set in motion the principle that C.G. Jung called synchronicity.... a phenomenon that some of us prefer to ignore: the possibility of an intelligent and responsive universe, acting and reacting in our interests."
Linda shared a great story about shopping synchronicity last week, and Pam told us about meeting up with an old acquaintance who just might help her get a manuscript published. Did anyone "take a small step in the direction of a dream" this week and experience a "synchronous door" flying open? Or were you reminded of any of the "thousand unseen helping hands," in Joseph Campbell's words, that have helped you along the way in your creative life?
CRITICISM AND SHAME
"Many artists begin a piece of work, get along well in it, and then find, as they near completion, that the work seems mysteriously drained of merit. It's no longer worth the trouble."
I had an experience this week, while working on revisions for a manuscript, of feeling that it just wasn't any good and I should forget about doing any more work on it and chuck it. Then I remembered a critique of the story that came from an editor in a face-to-face group setting. Her words about it were blunt, flippant and not at all useful in producing an "aha!" moment that might have helped me see my work in a new light and point me in a new direction for revisions. I still remember how embarrassed I felt. I wondered if my story really was unworthy, or if I was letting that editor's assessment color my own. My answer to myself is that if the story is true to me and my experience and the sharing of it brings me joy, it's worthy--even if no one wants to publish it.
Anyone else ever had a shaming experience from a critic that rocked your confidence?
GROWTH AND SELF-CARE
"As a creative being, you will be more productive when coaxed than when bullied.... Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways.... If you do one nice thing a day for yourself, God will do two more."
It's been a stressful week for me, a lot of things converging to make me feel overwhelmed. I've felt particularly unproductive creatively. AND, it's come up in my morning pages this week that I'm not doing well at self-care--at a time when I most need it! Related to my unproductivity? I can't help but think...
How are you doing at self-care? Do you find that you are more productive when you're taking care of yourself?
MORNING PAGES: Are you finding them helpful?
ARTIST DATE: Are you doing a good job of romancing your inner artist?
WEEK THREE TASKS: Did you find that any of last week's tasks brought significant insights to your creative life?
If you can make the time, check back this week after you've posted your own comment to respond to others' Week 3 experience and to see if someone has responded to yours. There's more of that going on lately. Start a conversation!
Next week's assignment: Week 4, Recovering a Sense of Integrity
Friday, January 27, 2012
Daily Check-In #4, Week Two Comments
One last Check-In yesterday for the week from Linda--who also commented on everyone else's posts! I'm happy to see the give and take of conversation beginning to happen here.
New Check-In post tomorrow. Have a great day today--look for synchronicity!
New Check-In post tomorrow. Have a great day today--look for synchronicity!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Daily Check-In #3, Week Two Comments
One more weekly check-in, from Nancy. She says she keeps thinking about dropping out, so if you're finding your journey through The Artist's Way a positive experience for your creative life, maybe a word of encouragement would be apropos....
Hope the week is going well for you all. Are you listening to your anger? Experiencing synchronicity? Discovering any secret shame? Or is it proving to be a sluggish week, a setback in your creative recovery?
Hope the week is going well for you all. Are you listening to your anger? Experiencing synchronicity? Discovering any secret shame? Or is it proving to be a sluggish week, a setback in your creative recovery?
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Daily Check-In #2, Week Two Comments
New comments were posted by fellow TAWers Ginny, Margie, Janis, June and Kay yesterday. Good things are happening! I love that Margie and June shared some specific resources I'm looking at for future artist dates...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Daily Check-In #1, Week Two Comments
New posts on Week Two from Pam, Ann, topangamaria, Liz and Stephanie. Interesting to read that so many people find a qualitative difference in their lives when they do morning pages. What is it about this seemingly simple task that works so effectively?!
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Check-In: Week Two
Recovering a Sense of Identity
"Often, creativity is blocked by our falling in with other people's plans for us. We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we should do something else instead."
What are the "shoulds" that get in the way of your creative work? Mine have to do with paychecks. I've been thinking this week about jobs that feed the body but not the soul. Surely I am creative enough to find work that does both!
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Do you have preferences and do you let people know what they are? Or do you always "go along" with your companions? I'm finding as a newly minted single that I am enjoying the rediscovery of my preferences! A small example: I no longer have wine with dinner every night, and when I do, it's Chianti instead of Chardonnay. Not that there's anything wrong with Chardonnay; I simply prefer Chianti. Why did I drink Chardonnay all those years when I preferred something else?!
What did you pay attention to this week that brought you joy, that made you feel delight? For me it was the crunch of snow under my feet, the sharp sting of cold air on my face, the robin red-breast on the branch outside my office window...
Did you write three pages every morning? I did! I got out some anger, some worry, some pain. I wonder how and why I ever got out of the habit of doing morning pages when they are such an effective tool for dealing with the "stuff" of life...
Did you take your inner artist on a date? That three-mile walk in the snow was a good one for waking up the child in me. And the five minutes I spent listening to Don McLean's "Starry, Starry Night" and watching the slide show of Van Gogh's paintings fed my artist full up...
Did you complete any of the tasks last week? Anything you'd like to share? I did several tasks this week. I found that listing twenty things I enjoy doing did not come fast and easy, which told me how much my life has been about doing things for others instead of for myself. I want to do this exercise again as I move forward in the process of rediscovering my preferences.... I also found that the changes I listed in the "Ten Tiny Changes" exercise were anything but tiny! I want to do this one again, too, and make the list more doable by thinking of small changes that could lead me toward the bigger changes I'd like to make for myself.
Thanks to everyone who shared last week. I can't wait to read about your experiences in creative recovery during Week 2. You inspire me!
Next week's assignment: Week 3, Recovering a Sense of Power
What are the "shoulds" that get in the way of your creative work? Mine have to do with paychecks. I've been thinking this week about jobs that feed the body but not the soul. Surely I am creative enough to find work that does both!
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Do you have preferences and do you let people know what they are? Or do you always "go along" with your companions? I'm finding as a newly minted single that I am enjoying the rediscovery of my preferences! A small example: I no longer have wine with dinner every night, and when I do, it's Chianti instead of Chardonnay. Not that there's anything wrong with Chardonnay; I simply prefer Chianti. Why did I drink Chardonnay all those years when I preferred something else?!
"The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
What did you pay attention to this week that brought you joy, that made you feel delight? For me it was the crunch of snow under my feet, the sharp sting of cold air on my face, the robin red-breast on the branch outside my office window...
MORNING PAGES
Did you write three pages every morning? I did! I got out some anger, some worry, some pain. I wonder how and why I ever got out of the habit of doing morning pages when they are such an effective tool for dealing with the "stuff" of life...
ARTIST DATE
Did you take your inner artist on a date? That three-mile walk in the snow was a good one for waking up the child in me. And the five minutes I spent listening to Don McLean's "Starry, Starry Night" and watching the slide show of Van Gogh's paintings fed my artist full up...
WEEK TWO TASKS
Did you complete any of the tasks last week? Anything you'd like to share? I did several tasks this week. I found that listing twenty things I enjoy doing did not come fast and easy, which told me how much my life has been about doing things for others instead of for myself. I want to do this exercise again as I move forward in the process of rediscovering my preferences.... I also found that the changes I listed in the "Ten Tiny Changes" exercise were anything but tiny! I want to do this one again, too, and make the list more doable by thinking of small changes that could lead me toward the bigger changes I'd like to make for myself.
Thanks to everyone who shared last week. I can't wait to read about your experiences in creative recovery during Week 2. You inspire me!
Next week's assignment: Week 3, Recovering a Sense of Power
Friday, January 20, 2012
Daily Check-In #5, Week One Comments
No new posts to read today--but if you haven't had a chance to take your artist on a date yet this week, here's a link to something that filled my well in a few short minutes! Enjoy--and see you back here tomorrow morning.
Starry, Starry Night
Starry, Starry Night
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Daily Check-In #4, Week One Comments
June added a comment today under Week One Check-In--she's been planting flowers while I've been kicking snow! Wonderful to have group members from many different places working on creative recovery together.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Daily Check-In #2, Week One Comments
There are new comments on the Week One post that you might want to read from Pam, Janis, topangamaria, Margie, Dianne and Liz if you haven't checked in since yesterday. Anyone else ready to weigh in?
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Daily Check-In #1, Week One Comments
Check out Week One comments from Ginny, Jenn, Linda, Nancy, Ann and Stephanie for inspiration and encouragement. I know that you inspire me!
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Check-In: Week One
Recovering a Sense of Safety
This week marks the end of our first full week writing morning pages, taking our inner artist for a date and completing one or more of the tasks laid out for us in Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. How did you do? I was out of town five days last week and now have guests staying with me, so while I would have liked to have been more engaged, I'm proud of myself for doing as much as I did!
Did you write three pages every morning?
I missed one. I'm happy to see I'm loosening up. I'm happy to be writing something (almost!) every day, even if it's crap!
Did you take yourself for an artist’s date?
With a house full of guests and feeling like I "should" be playing hostess, I gave myself permission to leave for two hours, take my laptop to a coffee shop, buy myself a fancy drink at an exorbitant price and read a series of stories written by four girls I did a writing workshop with a couple of weeks ago. Such fresh and personal perspectives!
Did you complete any of the Week One tasks?
I didn't identify any "monsters"—enemies of my creative self-worth—but I did complete a number of tasks: writing out a personal affirmation; identifying my most common “blurt;” making a list of the most powerful champions of my creative self-worth throughout my life and making a list of five alternative lives I’d like to live (and may yet—who knows?!)
Do you have anything from the week you’d like to share with the rest of us?
I’d like to share the champions of my creative self-worth: my dad, who read aloud to me and gave me books; my mom, who bought me paints and pastels and drawing paper; the grade school teacher who commented on a story: “Your writing really packs a wallop!” and the junior high teacher who wrote at the bottom of a paper: “I expect to see your writing in a magazine some day;” my friend Patti, who asked me to help her rewrite a novel and set me on the path to publication; my friend Liz, who always believed in my way with words and recommended my work to an editor friend who was looking for manuscripts; my romance editor, Lisa, and my children’s book editor, Caroline, who loved my stories and wanted more; my therapist, Pat, who marvels at my creativity in life, work and words; and the many friends and fellow writers in five different critique groups who have encouraged me to write what I love and love what I write. I believe in myself because these champions believed in me.
And one more thing: If I had five other lives to lead, I’d be a children’s book illustrator, a blues singer, a motivational speaker, a vendor for the Renaissance Fair circuit and a fashion designer. The closest I got to playing out any of those this week was leading a group at a regional children’s writers’ seminar and watching the first two episodes of the new season of Project Runway!
If you haven’t had a chance, read over the comments left by your companions on this creative journey during the last week. I apologize if you've missed out on these; I believed if you subscribed to Platform 9 3/4 by email you would receive notice when comments were left on the blog. Alas, notice is sent only when I publish a new post! Julie recommends book-marking the site, which makes it easy to check in every day, but I am also going to try to post more often—reminders that others have posted comments worthy of your attention—so you have a link to click and can more easily respond to those comments. Let’s become champions of one another!
Next week's assignment: Week 2, Recovering a Sense of Identity
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Check-In: Basic Principles and Basic Tools
And the journey begins...
Sixteen of us join together this week to start on a journey toward creative recovery. By this time you will have read the Introduction and the sections on Basic Principles and Basic Tools in The Artist's Way, and you have made a decision to commit to the program Julia Cameron lays out. I hope by the time we arrive at the end of The Artist's Way (the book), the same sixteen will still be here, moving forward on The Artist's Way (a path to a richer creative life)!
Thanks for signing in and introducing yourselves last week. It's been a pleasure to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. By joining this group, you have become a member of what Cameron calls a Sacred Circle. Remember that we gather here, in the author's words, "in the spirit of a sacred trust."
"Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect," she writes. "We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all.... We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. We cannot labor in place of one another, but we can support the labor that each must undertake to birth his or her art and foster it to maturity. By drawing and acknowledging the Sacred Circle...we invite a spirit of service to the highest good and a faith in the accomplishment of our own good in the midst of our fellows."
At the end of each chapter in The Artist's Way is a section called "Check-In." Some of you may want to do this privately. I hope that most of us, however, will be willing to share at least some of our experiences during the preceding week. Doing so holds each of us accountable for doing the work; in addition, our individual insights might be exactly what another member of our Sacred Circle needs to hear.
In that spirit, every Saturday morning I'll publish a new post to give those of us who are willing to do so a place to check in with one another as well as with ourselves.
One last word from Cameron: "The Sacred Circle is built on respect and trust.... The image is of the garden. Each plant has its name and its place.... Each bloom has its unique and irreplaceable beauty. Let our gardening hands be gentle ones. Let us not root up one another's ideas before they have time to bloom.... Let us never be hasty to judge, reckless in our urgency to force unnatural growth. Let there be, always, a place for the artist toddler to try, to falter, to fail, to try again..."
In this "pilgrimage home to ourselves," let us be gentle with one another, and let us especially be gentle with ourselves.
This Week's Comments:
After reading the introductory material, I'm interested to hear three things from you: 1) your reaction to Cameron's idea of the artist "forging a creative alliance, artist-to-artist, with the Great Creator," whomever or whatever you perceive that to be; 2) your experience at this point in your creative life of the internal "Censor" that "keeps up a constant stream of subversive remarks" about your creative potential; 3) what made you hesitate (if indeed you did) to sign the contract at the end of the Basic Tools chapter committing to writing morning pages, keeping artist's dates and completing each week's creative recovery tasks.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Sixteen of us join together this week to start on a journey toward creative recovery. By this time you will have read the Introduction and the sections on Basic Principles and Basic Tools in The Artist's Way, and you have made a decision to commit to the program Julia Cameron lays out. I hope by the time we arrive at the end of The Artist's Way (the book), the same sixteen will still be here, moving forward on The Artist's Way (a path to a richer creative life)!
Thanks for signing in and introducing yourselves last week. It's been a pleasure to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones. By joining this group, you have become a member of what Cameron calls a Sacred Circle. Remember that we gather here, in the author's words, "in the spirit of a sacred trust."
"Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect," she writes. "We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all.... We are meant to midwife dreams for one another. We cannot labor in place of one another, but we can support the labor that each must undertake to birth his or her art and foster it to maturity. By drawing and acknowledging the Sacred Circle...we invite a spirit of service to the highest good and a faith in the accomplishment of our own good in the midst of our fellows."
In that spirit, every Saturday morning I'll publish a new post to give those of us who are willing to do so a place to check in with one another as well as with ourselves.
One last word from Cameron: "The Sacred Circle is built on respect and trust.... The image is of the garden. Each plant has its name and its place.... Each bloom has its unique and irreplaceable beauty. Let our gardening hands be gentle ones. Let us not root up one another's ideas before they have time to bloom.... Let us never be hasty to judge, reckless in our urgency to force unnatural growth. Let there be, always, a place for the artist toddler to try, to falter, to fail, to try again..."
In this "pilgrimage home to ourselves," let us be gentle with one another, and let us especially be gentle with ourselves.
This Week's Comments:
After reading the introductory material, I'm interested to hear three things from you: 1) your reaction to Cameron's idea of the artist "forging a creative alliance, artist-to-artist, with the Great Creator," whomever or whatever you perceive that to be; 2) your experience at this point in your creative life of the internal "Censor" that "keeps up a constant stream of subversive remarks" about your creative potential; 3) what made you hesitate (if indeed you did) to sign the contract at the end of the Basic Tools chapter committing to writing morning pages, keeping artist's dates and completing each week's creative recovery tasks.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Welcome to The Artist's Way!
To all of you joining me on this journey through The Artist's Way:
I've let the world get in the way of my creative life in the last couple of years. I've started this blog as a way to jump-start my flagging creativity and, I hope, to help you move forward in your creative work, too. I'd like the Platform 9 3/4 blog to be a place where creatives can come to rejuvenate by reading the best books out on creative thinking and the creative process, interacting with the texts, and sharing their experiences and insights with other creatives in a way that will enlighten and encourage all of us and hold each of us accountable to our personal vision for our art, whatever that might be.
I've gone through Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way in the past and found that the exercises helped me identify and rectify the things that were keeping me from going where I wanted to go in my creative life. I think it's the perfect book for a jump-start and I hope you'll find that's true for you as well.
I confess I'm figuring things out as I go, but here's how I see Platform 9 3/4 working: Every weekend, I'll send an email reminder to participants with a link to the blog, where I will have posted a short overview of the chapter we'll read in the coming week. Reader comments will be open so you can post as you wish during the week. Post once during the week or as often as you wish. No one should feel obligated to post at all, but making a commitment to do so at least once each week is a great way to hold yourself accountable for reading the text and doing the work--and to encourage the rest of us on our creative journeys. I'd like the comments to function as a conversation, so I encourage you to read and respond to the other participants' posts as well as sharing your own interaction with the text and your experiences doing the exercises. Let's create some synergy!
Your assignment this week:
1) Purchase The Artist's Way (or dig it out from wherever it's been hiding).
2) Look over the Table of Contents and read the Introduction, "Spiritual Electricity: The Basic Principles" and "The Basic Tools."
3) Respond to this post with a short self-introduction. Use your full name, your first name or a nickname--whatever you're comfortable with. Tell us what your primary form of creative expression is: writing? painting? knitting? cooking?
4) Based on your reading, also let us know what you hope to achieve in your creative life by reading and interacting with Cameron's book--and with the rest of us!
Note: Several of you have commented that you would be willing to pay me for my time for organizing and leading the group. I am interested in doing this in the future--for other books related to the creative life as well as Cameron's--as a way to supplement my income. But you are my Beta group, helping me work out the kinks to see if such an enterprise is viable. At the end of our time together, I'll ask you to fill out a response form, including whether you found the experience worthwhile enough that you'd be willing to pay for it, and how much you'd be willing to pay.
I'm excited to see where The Artist's Way will take me--and where it will take you. Welcome!
I've let the world get in the way of my creative life in the last couple of years. I've started this blog as a way to jump-start my flagging creativity and, I hope, to help you move forward in your creative work, too. I'd like the Platform 9 3/4 blog to be a place where creatives can come to rejuvenate by reading the best books out on creative thinking and the creative process, interacting with the texts, and sharing their experiences and insights with other creatives in a way that will enlighten and encourage all of us and hold each of us accountable to our personal vision for our art, whatever that might be.
I've gone through Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way in the past and found that the exercises helped me identify and rectify the things that were keeping me from going where I wanted to go in my creative life. I think it's the perfect book for a jump-start and I hope you'll find that's true for you as well.
Your assignment this week:
1) Purchase The Artist's Way (or dig it out from wherever it's been hiding).
2) Look over the Table of Contents and read the Introduction, "Spiritual Electricity: The Basic Principles" and "The Basic Tools."
3) Respond to this post with a short self-introduction. Use your full name, your first name or a nickname--whatever you're comfortable with. Tell us what your primary form of creative expression is: writing? painting? knitting? cooking?
4) Based on your reading, also let us know what you hope to achieve in your creative life by reading and interacting with Cameron's book--and with the rest of us!
Note: Several of you have commented that you would be willing to pay me for my time for organizing and leading the group. I am interested in doing this in the future--for other books related to the creative life as well as Cameron's--as a way to supplement my income. But you are my Beta group, helping me work out the kinks to see if such an enterprise is viable. At the end of our time together, I'll ask you to fill out a response form, including whether you found the experience worthwhile enough that you'd be willing to pay for it, and how much you'd be willing to pay.
I'm excited to see where The Artist's Way will take me--and where it will take you. Welcome!
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