It’s Part 3 of my summer project, which is completing ‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julia Cameron. In this episode I debrief on Weeks 9-12 and speak about:
Week 9 | Compassion
Procrastination and discovering your particular brand of procrastination.
Overcoming procrastination requires self-compassion more than it does self-criticism.
Enthusiasm and discipline in long term projects.
Week 10 | Self-protection
Getting honest about the things we use to distract and disrupt ourselves when we write.
Glorifying busyness and productivity is detrimental at the start of a new project when in fact we need more white space.
Boundaries and setting bare minimums.
Week 11 | Autonomy
Taking responsibility for our art, our point of view as an artist and our creative process.
Why it’s not helpful to look outside of ourselves for what we ‘should’ be writing, how we ‘should’ be structuring our writing sessions, what our artistic life ‘should’ look like…
Planning artist dates with ourselves.
Week 12 | Faith
Being willing to be optimistic in a culture and industry that can be cynical.
Accepting mystery and what’s unknowable in the early stages of a creative project.
Getting comfortable sitting in the dark with an idea while it takes root.
Next month I’ll be back to speaking about craft as a new project unfolds…
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