The Artists Way Chapter One

The book does warn you it can bring powerful emotions up. It wasn't joking. I have hardly begun, I only did the morning pages, and 'hello rage'. I am sure that is about a lot of things, not just creative unblocking.

Certainly when the first chapter started talking about friends and families blocking artistic dreams, telling you to be sensible etc, I recognised with that. And I have met a lot of people where that has been the case.

I think a lucky few get encouraged to become something like an artist or an academic, everyone else is pushed towards something 'safer'. Doing a masters was a way of pushing against all that, to have a shot at not being a shadow anything. I guess that is important. An important statement of self identity. It didn't work it, but I didn't give up on the dream either, though apparently academic writing makes little impact. I wanted it more than anything, and one day it happened.

Writer's are famous for starving. It is definitely a belief I have had, and perhaps even experienced. Perhaps it is something I need to challenge within myself. Can writer's be solvent?

Good question. 

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