#julia cameron

[petymology]

"Being an artist requires enthusiasm more than discipline. Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process, a loving recognition of all the creativity around us. ... Enthusiasm is grounded in play, not work. Far from being a brain-numbed soldier, our artist is actually our child within, our inner playmate. As with all playmates, it is joy, not duty, that makes for a lasting bond."

Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way

[sadeolutola]

Week 12 of the artist way, I just put my dreams, fears, worries and resentments into this vase, it was really interesting because I noticed that I had few ambitions, maybe 4 I came up with? But I had like 20 fears ! That’s at least 5 fears which came with each dream of mine. Sometimes I would write a dream which would inspire me to write more and more fears. Writing them out made me understand how silly some of them were though, for example, “I’ll never succeed in the music industry and this was all a huge mistake”. Spoiler, it was not. I have never been so fulfilled than I am right now!

Taking time to to breath this morning and let God handle all my worries xxx

[jamelalatise]

Your own healing is the greatest message of hope for others.

[novlr]

“Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.” — Julia Cameron

[birdhug]

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[noodledesk]

Julia Cameron on maintaining your artistic ecosystem:

Art is an image-using system. In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well-stocked trout pond. We’ve got big fish, little fish, fat fish, skinny fish—an abundance of artistic fish to fry. As artists, we must realize that we have to maintain this artistic ecosystem. If we don’t give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked.

[mumblingsage]

Random editing tip: It is astonishing and even alarming how mixed-up a story, poem, or essay can become if sentences or phrases are a little bit out of place. Sometimes you write something in Chapter 10 that you realize should have gone in Chapter 3, but sometimes it's that the last words of your paragraph should have been the first, or vice versa, or there's an extra sentence dividing two pieces of information that really belong together.

On the bright side, it's encouraging how many problems can be fixed by adjusting the order of a few words, sentences, or paragraphs. Not every problem can be fixed this way, but as Julia Cameron said in The Right to Write, "Very often, I found in my rewrites, I had all the right elements, just slightly out of order. A simple reshuffling of paragraphs often gave me all the polish I needed. It was easy to reshuffle when all the elements were there–it was much easier than trying to get the elements right the first time out. Rewriting became a matter of re-righting, of putting things in place rather than reinventing the wheel."

[siamkram]

Goethe told us, "Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it, because action has magic, grace and power in it."