One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 30 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FOUR: An Artist Requires Creative Solitude If you’ve ever done a Myers Briggs personality test you may have been a screaming mess like I was. The introvert/extrovert divide is not that clear in any test I’ve done. I remember asking if I could begin the […]
One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 28 Recovering a Sense of Possibility LESSON FOUR: REPLACE ‘NO WAY!’ WITH ‘MAYBE.’ Julia Cameron calls finding our creative voice and following its guidance, ‘Finding the River’ in her book The Artist’s Way. When we begin to recover our sense of possibility we find ourselves saying, “You could still […]
Christmas is over for another year and as our our thoughts move to plans for 2016, I’m thinking over the idea of Recovering a Sense of Possibility. For the next week I’m working through Chapter Five of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. Too often we look at the past year […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 24 A Writer’s Christmas Eve Out of all the Christmas traditions we could possibly have, my writer’s heart loves this one. Tracy writes a letter to her son every Christmas Eve, places it in a hand-decorated box and hangs it on the tree. Love it! I’m the sort […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 22 Giving Back to God The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is one of my favourite books because it inspires me to live a creative life. Cameron writes about the spirituality of creativity as well as the practice. To her they go hand in hand. The Creator […]
100 Day Creative Challenge Day 21 It’s Not Too Late Are you a late creative bloomer? Did you wait until later in life to take the brave step and begin to live a creative life? I quit teaching to take up writing full-time. I wish I’d done it earlier in life. I wish I’d realised that writing […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 20 Finding Time At this time of year it’s hard enough to clean the house and shop for Christmas without finding time for creative work. Fortunately a lot of us enjoy the creativity of Christmas preparation. Whether it’s baking, wrapping or choosing presents or finding creative ways to […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 19 The creative life means we are in it for the process, not just the final product. Too many people are looking to just create that one piece that will bring them fame or fortune, but for most of us, break-even or gratis is what we end up […]
The One Hundred Day Creative Challenge: Day 18 I’ve had two surgeries in the last month. The scars from the first one are beginning to thicken and into scar tissue. The latest ones are quite raw,but they’ll heal. Our creative injuries need healing too. The scar tissue they produce can restrict us and hold us […]
