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monday … started and ended in tears, but in-between, it was a good, good day. It flowed. Isn’t that kind of amazing? tuesday … was a hard day. I struggled—to focus, to breathe, to do. I took Ender swimming, drank in his joy. Made a good supper. Struggled. If you ask me about what, why—I … ... mehr auf nothingbythebook.com
I’m re-reading Julia Cameron’s Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance, one of her “sequels,” if I can be permitted to call them that, to her revolutionary creative recovery program, The Artist’s Way. I have a cynical suspicion that both Finding Water (2006) and its predecessor Walking in the World (2003)—as well as Cameron’s myriad The … ... mehr auf nothingbythebook.wordpress.com
i For the second time in my life—no, wait, third—I’m having a hard time writing. For someone who does not believe in writer’s block, this is a most humbling admission. And when I say I’m having a hard time writing—I should clarify. I’m still writing for money. And I’m practicing in the Morning Pages. But … ... mehr auf nothingbythebook.com
1 I did a very stupid thing this weekend. I sampled a decade of my Morning Pages. I didn’t plan to. It just happened. But wait. I’m telling the story badly. Morning Pages are the foundational practice of The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron’s 12 week recovery program for blocked creatives. Shut up. I know it … ... mehr auf nothingbythebook.com
i The dark, by all the calendars, is on the retreat now. The nights are getting shorter and the days longer, even though we cannot see it yet. Every day, a few more minutes of sunlight. Less than three months until the Equinox. We haven’t made it yet, but it’s possible to think we will … ... mehr auf nothingbythebook.com
i I’m sitting down with Julia Cameron at the end of an introspective day. Julia writes: Creativity is a spiral path; we pass through the same issues over and over again at slightly differing altitudes. I have written twenty books, some more easily than others. My own perfectionism is not banished, just disguised. Now I … ... mehr auf nothingbythebook.com
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