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Hello. 👁 Image markmc03 and I are starting a community for thos interested in doing the follow up book to The Artists Way. We started it just today, but you can start whenever. Check in Day is Saturdays. Join us if you would like. Its called 👁 Image walkinthisworld |
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morning pages I wrote every day. 5 days I really wrote 3 pages, twice I wrote about 1.5 pages and once I only wrote one sentence. I try not to let the morning pages be a stress factor. So if I have the time and the calmness I do them, otherwise I write down the most important or at least check in for the day. artist's date I didn't manage an artist's date just for myself, I was too busy, the week was too hectic. I had two moments that were important to me: • on Thursday evening we did the first show of our project week at school. It was a mad week, only four days to prepare a play with over 60 actors, about 20 dancers and 20 musicians and about 200 kids involved on the whole. It was very stressy and I often hated it, but it was great to see the result, what can be done in such a short time if everybody gives their best. • yesterday evening I ran my third race, the Silvesterlauf. I loved the feeling of doing something with many people, of moving, being in my hometown that celebrated us with special lightning and decorations. synchronicity I'd say the way our flat hunt goes is full of synchronicity. We could have had a house, but we didn't like it. I was very scared to call the manager and tell her I didn't want to accept the offer. She was very friendly and promised us to keep her eyes open for something that really suits us. I feel much happier about it. other issues • my husband read my NaNoWriMo novel and he liked it. I was scared to share it with him, nervous. Now I am so glad that he knows it. • this week's topic of the addiction of fame sounded very true. Sometimes I can't wait to be praised and I live only for it instead of doing things just for themselves. • I didn't really do this week's tasks. I don't think it was because I didn't have enough time, but because I didn't feel tempted by them. • It was rather difficult to get back into the Artist's Way after a month long break for me. |
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I’ve done morning pages 5 out of the last 12 days. Not only was the thanks giving weekend busy, but I also got sick. So I took a break from the program and restarted it last Tuesday. The days I did my pages were the most natural I’ve experienced… probably ever. I’ve found a morning routine that works well for me and the pages fit into it naturally (but it’s sort of hard to stick to when spending the morning on the bathroom floor ;). The best part of taking the break was how easy it was for me to get back up in the horse. I’ve skipped pages before and the longer I was away from them the longer it took for me to get back in the habit. This time I thought about skipping them but then something like the angel on my shoulder said oh, what’s the big deal… just write them, and I did and it kicked started my momentum. I will definitely continue to write my pages. I will not feel guilty if I miss a day or two, won’t feel like I have lost all of the ground I’ve covered. I will open my journal and lift my pen and keep my attention on what can be done right here and now. No formal artist date this week, but something struck me in this weeks essays. Cameron writes that life is intended to be an artist date, and I feel like I’ve begun to live to this idea. These days I’m struck by the beauty all around me and I allow myself to stop and drink it in at every turn. I’ll sit on the front stairs and watch the sunset with a cup of good coffee. I’ll replay a song that moves me to tears two or three times. I’ll randomly start singing while washing dished or sweeping the floor. I understand the importance of taking time to do special things for ones self and do intend to treat myself to things that pique my interest. I also intend to live in the moment and bask in the wonder that presents it self to me on a daily basis. I continue to notice the universe handing me the help I ask for. The most notable example of this came after a conversation I had with my husband. I currently don’t have a job. I’ve been looking for work, but nothing from the applications I’ve made over the last six months. Over the thanks giving weekend I told my husband about the disappointment and embarrassment this has caused me. We talked about it and we both think that the fact that I’ve heard nothing might have something to do with the fact that the perfect situation was out there waiting to be discovered. I’ve applied for a handful of jobs I would really love and a whole bunch more that I’m sure I would be OK with but wouldn’t love. I know that if I was given an offer I would take it… even if it wasn’t my dream job. Maybe the universe is doing me a favor in keeping me from taking a job that wouldn’t be putting my skills and talents to work. Then, last week, a position became available with an organization I would LOVE to work for doing a job I know I would excel at and would challenge me. SO I’ve applied, it’s only been a few days, and even if I don’t get it I am no longer desperate about never finding a job I like… I will hang in there and I will find it. In week eleven Cameron suggests artists take up a sport. I believe I’ve found mine. I’ve been practicing yoga and kick boxing in concert. I’ve never before found an exercise routine that I can stick to but everything about this routine suits me and excites me to practice. It challenges my flexibility and I can feel the way its building strength and I can let everything fall away as I focus on keeping good form during every move. I’m very proud of my dedication and enjoy all of the benefits I’m seeing. I also want to say that I am so happy to of had the support and feed back of this community during my artistic journey. Thank you all for sharing you r progress along the Artist’s way, your insights have helped to open my mind. And thank you for sharing your support and advice. Thank you for helping me to experience the miracle of artists sharing with one another! |
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Now that November is over and with it NaNoWriMo, I'd like to finish the Artist's Way. I stopped early in November, during week 10, because I just didn't find enough time for it anymore. I'll start week 10 again tomorrow and will try to get back into the groove. It might not be easy, after an almost 4 week break but I definitely want to try it. |
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so i never did a week 6 check-in and here it is the end of week 7 and i've barely given the book any thought at all. i think i need to do week 7 over again and get back with the program. i feel like i didn't do much for week 6 either, actually. again, i've been depressed and it's been hard to do anything at all... but i have new drugs now and so i'm hopeful. have any of you gone back to do a week over? |
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My name is Jessie, I'm a music student in her last semester of a jazz studies/percussion degree and have been looking at doing the artists way thing for awhile but never have. (I have read the book and some of julias' other books as well). Some fears I have: graduating and not being able to practice daily like i am. A question I have: are julias' books geared towards all artists or mostly writers? also, how do you guys deal with practice/daily art making if you do an art, like music, that is not necessarily portable? Looking foward to meeting you and thank you for any advice:) |
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1) I did my morning pages 7/8 days this week. I was way to busy throwing up on Saturday to write. I also decided to give my self an extra day on week ten. I am in a good rhythm with my pages, I can write them in the time my oatmeal cooks in the morning and they have generally been non-memorable. 2) No artist date this week. Oh well. 3) No major synchronicity this week. 4) I’ve found my way into a sort of routine that works for me this week, and it all comes down to the bottom line idea. I don’t do well with rigorous time schedule and trying to get a checklist of items done each day never lasts long. I’ve just decided that bottom line I have to do what’s important to me. This has been working very well for a week. I seem to have a lot of free time that I don’t feel guilty about taking at the end of the day and instead of having some sort of grand idea about waking up at five am to get to work, I just work within the parameters my day permits and I’m getting a lot done. In fact, I am actually able to work for longer periods of time than I ever have before. So we will see where this wave takes me. |
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Let's see. 1. I have not been so great with the morning pages lately. Now that I'm working at 9am and getting up at 7:30, it's just really difficult to force myself out of bed any earlier. I'm going to have to find a way to make myself, though. My goal is to do them at least 5/7 this week. I really do miss them. 2. For my AD I went to a grad school information session that I really wanted to go to but felt really nervous about. It wasn't exactly a FUN date, persay, but it was different and I enjoyed it. I'm glad I did it. 3. Yes, there was synchronicity. No, I can't recall it right now. I must start recording these (see: morning pages in item #1). 4. Issues, hmm. Well. I'm sort of finding it difficult to stick to the program now that I'm nearing the end. I really want to follow through and complete this, but I'm afraid it won't be as perfectly as I had hoped. I'm trying be okay with that and just focus on finishing what I can and getting everything I can out of these next few weeks. |
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"Man makes plans and God laughs"--for the first time, I actually regarded this quote in a favorable light. 1. 7/7! Yay! I almost forgot about them Friday, but I wrote them in the evening and was generally happy. The pain has just kind of stopped, and I'm not sure if this is good or not. 2. I went to see RENT live with my Mom for my birthday, and I really liked it. We were going to have seats in row EE, but Mom waited so we got rows in H, and I'm glad we did because I felt I had a perfect view of the stage. I've also been meditating, and I ordered a book for myself in celebration of getting this far in Nano. 3. My best friend and I (she lives in another state) saw each other at the orthodontist. Also, we went out for my birthday this weekend. We got lost on the way to the resteraunt, and we found a Barnes and Noble. We went there after we ate, and they were shooting off fireworks for Veteran's Day. It wasn't really synchronicity, but it was a weird coincidence all the same that they were doing that on my birthday. Ironically last Sunday, the beginning of Abundance week, we had a book giveaway at my work and I got the whole manga series of Chobits, eight volumes, for free, along with some more books and some CDs. 4. This week fell into place like clockwork for me, which is odd beause this was the week I was kind of iffy about. I found that Julia's words really moved me--I found myself saying, "If God could make the world in six days, why not..." and inserting whatever was happening here. I found myself more open and having more faith. |
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