Artist's Way
Trish Rucker
[ Author was Trish Rucker ]
[ Posted on 31 Jan 1996 09:24:22 GMT ]
THE ARTIST'S WAY is a book by Julia Cameron that outlines
a revolutionary 12 week creativity program to help work
through creative blocks, get going on creative work, or
just increase your creativity - whether you are a writer,
an actor, an artist, or in any other creative discipline.
Each week's assignments have three components: daily
morning pages (3 pages of freewriting), a weekly Artist's
Date, and 10 weekly tasks. Cameron discourages
"workshopping" the assignments. For that reason, this
group will not focus on what we've written in our
personal ARTIST'S WAY work; instead we will discuss how
we're feeling about the process, problems with the
program, encouragements, new ideas.
To receive more information, write me at:
tr...@swsmail.atlanta.com
Be sure to reply via email, since I only scan the newsgroups
intermittently.
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Waneta Sweeney
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I guess I didn't get in on the original post, but I'm a big fan of _ The
Artist's Way_. Anyone else out there?
--
Wordily Yours,
Waneta K. Sweeney, Freelance Writer
"Turn as the Earth and the Moon turn, circling what they love." -Rumi
Michael Greenberg, M.D.
I'm new here. If you are talking about the book by Julia Cameron, I
took two screenwriting courses when she was here in Chicago. I learned a
great deal from her technique.
Dillons Bookstore
waters of the internet. I've been subjecting myself to Julia Cameron's
course for some weeks now and am loving it, though I found the no reading
week v tough
Mike Hodges
<gens...@dillons.co.uk> wrote:
I only got through it because it was Christmas week and I didn't have time
to read anyway. We had 3 kids, 3 kids-in-law, and and 4 grand kids in the
house. Not reading was still tough. I didn't realize until then just how
addicted to the printed word that I am.
The Hesh Inc.
>I guess I didn't get in on the original post, but I'm a big fan of _ The
>Artist's Way_. Anyone else out there?
>
I just stumbled upon this newsgroup myself, so I missed the original posting as
well. I, too, am a big fan of "The Artists's Way". I swear by it.
The only thing is: Once you finish the course, you _must_ keep up with the morning
pages and artist dates. If not, you won't believe how easy it is to slip back into
the old habits and become blocked again. This is what happened to me.
My own personal anecdote: I finished the book/course right around the same time
that the company I worked for was closing down its New Jersey office and moving to
Nashville, and I was getting ready to move to Pennsylvania. The creative blocks
were just about cleared away, I was finally free of a stopgap job that was sapping
my energy, and I was about to undertake a much-needed change of scenery. On top
of all this, it was summertime. It really felt like the whole world was opening up
before me. Then, once situated in my new residence, I promptly holed up in my
apartment, venturing out only once in awhile. I had pledged to keep up the pages
and the dates, but I let them slide. One by one the old blocks and habits came
back. It was as if I had been so scared of this unlimited potential that I turned a
one-eighty and scurried back into my cave. Call it "creative agoraphobia."
Now I think I've got a handle on this, and I'm about to start The Artist's Way
again. If anyone can offer any additional tips, books, sources etc. they'd be
greatly appreciated.
Heshy
Ruth Bahri
Your Act Together" by Pam Young & Peggy Jones (HarperPerennial, pub.
93)
I believe that the program has great potential for me and others like
myself.
The authors explain how conventional "get organized" books are more
helpful to the organized, and leave the right-brained, creative,
imaginative types in as much trouble as they were before they
started.
An essential part of the program according to the authors is to find
a supportive partner, someone who has the same problem and is ready
to make a change in their (probably her) life.
So if you regularly use dish soap because you forgot to buy shampoo,
or vice versa, if your mind runs a mile a minute jumping from one
idea and project to the next so that you sometimes feel you
can't achieve anything because you're going in too many directions at
once, if you can totally lose track of time doing something that
absorbs you, you fit the profile of the kind of person this
program was designed for.
If you would like to commit to a supportive, mutual self-help
group on-line, please e-mail me privately at
DISCLAIMER:
I'm not going to make any money out of this. I haven't met the authors
personally and I don't own shares in Harper's.
But I do believe that electronic support could be a valuable resource
to people like myself.
let's give it a whirl!!
Ruth Bahri
bah...@qucdn.queensu.ca
"Chaos spreads @ breathtaking speed" - Joyce Porter
Andy Boys
I, too, must read daily. News won't do, must be fiction. Can
read several pages while brushing my teeth. Surely, we are not
alone??
Kimbersh
As someone who makes her living as a writer, I can only say this is one of
the more heartening things I've read on the Net. People keep trying to
persuade me that my skill is becoming obsolete -- like glass-blowing.
Nicole Freed
Nicole Freed
White Horse
>Now I think I've got a handle on this, and I'm about to start The Artist's Way
>again. If anyone can offer any additional tips, books, sources etc. they'd be
>greatly appreciated.
>Heshy
Hello Heshy,
Join the Artist's Way listserver. There is a wonderfully
supportive and active group! Send a message to lists...@waterw.com
and in the body of the message put:
subscribe aw
See you there. :-)
Cheers,
Claudia
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Charley Helfert
my wife is a psychotherapist and plopped it down in front of me one night
and said read it. amonth later i cant even find where i set it down last
and i cant remember the title but it sure sounds like me and it sounds a
bit like you too
William F. King
Write all the ideas down.
Create a character(s).
Write a story of that persons life, incorporating as many ideas
as possible, plausibility being a factor to consider.
When that is done, sit down at your Dining Room table, and its
empty chairs, and your computer.
'let' the characters 'tell' you the story!
If this 'works' they call it a Novel...
See one @ http: below...
Regards, Bill King
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