C’est peut-être pour ça que je me décide à (re)commencer à suivre The Artist’s Way.
Voici mes notes de lecture pour la première semaine.
BASIC TOOLS
2 pivotal tools :
- Morning Pages (MP): primary tool for creative recovery. To retrieve creativity, you need to find it and you’ll find it through three pages of longhand writing strictly stream-of-consciousness.
* MP are not supposed to sound smart (though they can be).
* No one is allowed to read your MP except you.
* You shouldn’t read yourself for the first 8 weeks or so.
* Just write and stick pages into an envelope
* Better put angry, whiny, petty stuff on the page than having it stand between you and your creativity.
* MP are nonnegociable : never skip or skimp, no matter what your mood is.
* Do anything (including writing “can’t think of anything to write”) until you have filled three pages.
* MP get us beyond our Censor to our own quiet center.
-> Logic Brain : thinks in a neat linear fashion. Perceives the world according to known categories. Survival brain : works on known principles so anything unknown is perceived as wrong and possibly dangerous. Logic Brain is our Censor.
-> Artist Brain : our inventor, our child. Creative, holistic brain. Thinks in pattern and shadings. Associative and freewheeling. Makes new connections.
MP teach
- The Artist Date (AD) : if you consider a radio analogy MP = out and AD = in (receiver - transmitter). AD is a block of tim set aside committed to nurturing creative consciousness, inner artist.
* Take no one on this date but you and your inner artist (view this a the equivalent of spending some quality time with your spouse).
* Commit yourself to a weekly AD.
- Creativity Contract : sign the contract, maybe make a small ceremony for yourself, buy a nice notebook….
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19 mars 2007 à 1:18
C’est pas l’envie qui me manque de te suivre dans cette aventure… mais le temps, le temps, le temps…
Alors je vais profiter de ton parcours pour rêver un peu !
Bien à toi….
19 mars 2007 à 11:31
En même temps, si tu arrives à libérer 20 minutes par jour….
(Si ça te dit pour le jour où, je peux te prêter le livre en version pdf)
15 octobre 2007 à 23:59
[...] ce soit au saut du lit ou en fin de matinée. J’ai relu mes “notes de lectures” (post 1 et post 2) sur le premier chapitre mais je crois que demain, je vais relire le chapitre [...]