Twenty years ago, I was paralyzed with depression and its sidekick: fear. A bad marriage and a worse divorce had reduced me to almost nothing. After years of having been told that I was not an artist, I had quit painting, and I had been silenced from the years of having been shamed about my…
Month: May 2022
Quotes from Julia Cameron’s Artist’s Way
“Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.” ― Julia Cameron The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity “Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see “creator” as the literal term…
What Is Freewriting? How to Freewrite
Freewriting “An informal method of exploring a subject by writing about it, freewriting (“writing freely”) can help you generate ideas and come up with materials for your draft. Here’s how you do I. 1. Write as quickly as you can without stopping for 5 to 10 minutes (or until you fill…
#28Days Journal Challenge Prompt: Mindfulness
Yesterday I bought an Apple Watch, and I am already in love with 3 of its features that I didn’t know I’d get, along with my watch. First and very nice: All of my spam calls [and the less numerous valid calls] show up on my Apple Watch. Within seconds, I can dismiss or accept…
Let’s Launch A Journal Habit – #28 Days Journal Challenge
If you are a writer, you may be like me in that you wish that you had a journaling habit. I cannot tell you how many times I have tried to make myself journal every day, but that habit never seems to stick. Yet, it appears that I’ll be teaching good writing habits in college…