Starting the artist's way this year was the perfect way to open myself up to new creative thinking, a new group of friends and collaborators, and to my childhood self. I found that writing 3-pages every single day and getting into the habit of going on "artist dates" every week (i.e. anything that peaks your curiosity is an artist date!) allowed me to slow down and process life in a richer way. It's a habit that has been instrumental in me quieting my imposter's syndrome and has inspired me to just "do the thing."
Being fr—The Artist's Way has been as helpful to me as my (amazing) therapist. Highly recommend if you're ever feeling stuck or need a fresh outlook on life.
May 23, 2025
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Here to Rec this again, or The Right to Write also by Julia Cameron. It doesn’t necessarily help with line actual writing tips, but I found it helped my writing and creative practice in general by beginning to consider my entire life as a whole as part of it. What we write comes from how we live, what we see, how we think. And this helped me with that! It comes in from an “Artist’s block“ perspective, and I was worried it wouldn’t work because I wasn’t at all blocked, but I still found it really useful and interesting to discover the ways that maybe I was blocked and hadnt realised. It’s also just a really good tool to ensure commitment to craft, which i think is the hardest and most important thing in creating. If you do it a lot, consistently, you will improve, always.
Apr 27, 2024
12-week guided process for reconnecting with your inner child as your driving force for creating art (a lot of the exercises are writing-oriented, but it’s meant to re-invigorate any artistic practice)
fundamentally the artist’s way has two core principles: (1) write a little bit every day - the book says 3 pages first thing in the morning and (2) give yourself some novel experiences as artistic input to be able to generate artistic output
its hard to stay super consistent / complete all 12 weeks in 12 weeks time, but i think it is a really helpful starting place for getting back to a headspace where you’re writing / creating again because it gives you a lot of structure, room to ”fail”, find peace and joy in the process, and just have fun with it in a way we’re not really conditioned to past a certain age :)
Mar 19, 2024
The Artist’s Way is the classic rec for this ask, but theres one lesson it teaches that stuck with me most. when you feel stuck doing the creating that you really want to or feel like you “should”, do another form of creating instead. If you’ve a writing block, paint instead. A paining block? Collage! go on a photo walk and take some good photos. All creativity is linked and if you feel blocked in one, loosening up another can help!
Jun 20, 2024
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it was move in day at college. my new roommate offered me one of her favorite snacks, a babybel cheese. I had never heard of them before, but trying to make friends, I made a big deal about how they *too* were my favorite snack of all time. first thing I do is bite into the red protective wax, wincing, saying how good it was...she stared at me in shock and told me what I did. Embarrassed and caught, we laughed about it all night.
we lived together for 3 years after that :-)
May 19, 2025
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I've found that 1. I'm back in my pop rock era and 2. it's always a crowd pleaser 3. the lyrics really do come back to you more than you expect!
Feb 26, 2025
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