This week focuses on Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection. Cameron starts by having us revisit our creative blocks. Those things that we do so we don’t have to be creative. For me, it’s watching too much TV. Maybe even overeating. Both things dull my senses. And when I over-indulge in them, I don’t have any…
This week focuses on Recovering a Sense of Compassion. It’s funny. Week 9 of The Artist’s Way has been the longest week for me so far. I “started” this week at the beginning of June last year. And I only moved onto week 10 seven months later. It’s not that I was working so hard…
I’m writing this a few months after the fact. But like the “week” before, it took me more than seven days to finish my exercises from week three of The Artist’s Way. Part of me was tempted to start over and try to do the work in a week but I decided to keep moving…
My second “week” of The Artist’s Way took longer than a week… Just like the first “week”. It’s not that it took so long to do the exercises. It took me a while to do the check-in. Not this blog post, but the check-in exercise that’s part of the program. I’m not sure why. I…
I noticed it a few years ago. I had to push myself to create. Guilt myself into writing. Or impose a deadline by having to produce something by a specific date. It felt like my creative fire had gone out. And then the pandemic hit and I thought I would have the time or motivation…
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