Yesterday, in our study of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, we talked about Artist’s Brain’s ability to Paint with the Colors of the Wind and the need to write in the Language of the Birds. Today, I want to talk about Ray Bradbury, an American writer who did write in the Language of the Birds….
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Jacki Kellum Free Study of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way Day 4
In yesterday’s reading, Cameron said that as you empty your mind through writing the Morning Pages, the Logic Brain is hushed and the Artist Brain is allowed to take its place. “We move from logic brain to artist brain and from fast to slow, shallow to deep.” Cameron, The Artist’s Way, pg. 14. Yesterday, I…
Jacki Kellum Free Study of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way Day 3
In today’s reading, Julia Cameron asserts that a practice of writing Morning Pages will ultimately connect the practicioner to a Higher Creative Insight. I personally call this Higher Creative Insight my Intuition. Julia Cameron calls this Higher Creative Insight a type of Spiritual Guidance, which I believe is beyond a type of religious insight. She…
Jacki Kellum Free Study of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way Day 2
It was after lunchtime yesterday before I could get around to writing my Morning Pages. Like many of you, my early mornings are jam-packed with things that I MUST do during early mornings–no exceptions. HEAR ME: This does not mean that because I can’t be the perfect participant in Julia Cameron’s program The Artist’s Way,…
Jacki Kellum Free Study of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way Day 1
Because I want to assign as little reading as possible each day of our study of Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way, we’ll skip to page 9 for Day 1. Don’t worry– we’ll go back later, but I want you to start writing Morning Pages today. READ: The Basic Tools, pgs. 9- 12 of The Artist’s…
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron – Jacki Kellum Notes
“INTRODUCTION WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME what I do, I usually answer, “I’m a writer-director and I teach these creativity workshops.” The last one interests them. “How can you teach creativity?” they want to know. Defiance fights with curiosity on their faces. “I can’t,” I tell them. “I teach people to let themselves be creative.” “Oh….
Harvest Your Past Memoir Challenge – Write More to Write Better – Write to Heal Yourself
Before I tell you about today’s Memoir Writing Exercise, I want to share a true story with you. Today, I am a fairly prolific writer, but a few years ago, I couldn’t force myself to write. After my spirit had suffered several blows, I had become creatively mute. Depression had set in, and it seemed…
Perfectionism Is A Creativity Killer – Let’s Allow Ourselves to Create Imperfectly
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…
Let’s Allow Ourselves to be Imperfect. Perfectionism is the Enemy of Creativity
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…
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…