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The Artist’s Way

January 13, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Difficulties

The difficulty with projects like this is that you are expected to do something. Besides read the book, I mean. Homework. For this, we are assigned morning pages, daily; an artist date, weekly; and tasks that vary each week. This week, we are to identify our core negative beliefs (blurts) and counter them with creative… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Blogging, drawing, The Artist’s Way, Writing
January 10, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Begin Again

Today I started playing catch-up with the AW group. This involved: Discovering that the dusty book by my bedside is not The Artist’s Way, but another by the same author, Julia Cameron: The Right to Write. This book has many of the same exercises, which is why I was confused. Finding a copy of The… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Art, Blogging, blogs, creativity, Julie Cameron, Natalie Goldberg, The Artist’s Way, Writing Down the Bones
January 9, 2006

Diving Down

Well, perhaps I will do a bit of writing. My stats are way down. This may, of course, be seasonal — or not. I know what I should do about it: network. Visit lots of sites. Comment. Actually I often visit (though rarely comment) anyway. The thing is, I’m feeling unusually introverted lately. This too… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

Blogging, creativity, Crossing to Avalon, drawing, The Artist’s Way, the Creative License, Writing

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

The Artist’s Way

The Artist’s Way ~ Difficulties

The Artist’s Way ~ Begin Again

Diving Down