Ok, tried to start the artist way 12 week project but…

Three or four weeks ago I went out of my way to purchase the artist way, largely because I was feeling stifled by a lack of creativity in my life, I’d gone through the book 20 years ago so I know what it’s about, and have essentially never stopped writing three pages a day at least 5 days a week. So by now I should be on week four, but have failed to accomplish tasks and routinely have people busting in my space when trying to write, I find when I make no bones about it and don’t hide off in a precious corner to write that things go better, usually I call forfeit if someone barges in and mostly it’s difficult to counter censor, my inner one because sometimes people bust in on what I’m writing over the shoulder and you would imagine how people will indict you for writing things that aren’t expected. It’s a strange process to write non stop until 3 pages are filled. And it’s stuff if done properly that expounds the limits or expands upon the self induced limits. The idea is to break out of the blocks and fears that impede you from making things happen. I found another book along the same lines that cites the morning pages writing experiment call quit your day job, this may have distracted me from a repeat process of going the initial project. Pete Townsend said it’s a good starting place but a work of art is the finished product.

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