The Artist’s Way Begins

keith hernandez — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:19 +0000

This week, along with a few co-workers, I have embarked on the challenge of reading and following the activities in the seminal book “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. The intentions for all of us are to open up our creative spirits and allow ourselves to discover aspects of us that we did not realize exist.
Our first meeting took place in the training room on the 4th floor, we talked about the basics of the book, how it can be difficult to stay with it and how parts of your life will change because of doing it. I will not divulge much else we talked about, as we decided it was best to keep it in the circle of trust that we created. My hopes are that the creative energy realized in the course we are doing will help spark this website and I can make it a thoughtful and creative place to post my thoughts.
The first action in the book, after all the basics are layed out about how we are in fact all artists, we just need to allow it come be present, is to create a morning pages. The morning pages is a notebook intended to be a stream of conciousness activity conducted each morning, right when you wake up. Three pages of hand-written notes, on whatever the fuck comes to mind, is to be completed before anything else, every day. I must say, I started doing the morning pages about a week ago and it has added a sense of clarity to the day. Getting out some of the emotions, some of the crap that lingers in the back of your mind has lead to days where I want to write at the end, where I feel like doing more and creating more. I am only at the beginning stages of this, so let’s see if there is a “dark” period, but right now, I am pumped to see where this activity takes me.
Will keep the website posted on my progress and hopefully will see a difference in the amount and quality that I write on here. The experiment begins…now.

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The Artist’s Way Begins