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Creativity Goals Check-In October 4, 2020

Oct4

Goals from Last Week – How Did it Go?

Writing

work on Moonchild (writing project) all seven days – only two, more on this later
work on blog at least five days – DONE.
at least seven sessions of digitizing old writing – DONE and then some, had more like THIRTEEN, more on this later too
work on disability letter for the school – minimal progress

Music

seven guitar practice sessions – did TEN, making up for last week, not quite fully caught up yet.
get up through song 100 of Book One of my Hal Leonard Guitar Method Complete Edition book (catch up from last week) – which means FINISHING BOOK ONE! – and move onto songs 1-4 (all very short) for the first lesson in Book Two, which focus on the Am chord – DONE. Yeah for starting Book Two!
seven piano practice sessions – did TWELVE, to catch up from all the missed ones last week.
Finish last week’s keyboard goals – catching up on Technic and Composition sections – and move forward, getting through page 61 – DONE.

Lifestyle

sleep without the phone (a struggle you can read about here) – this will put me at 196 nights (28 weeks) in a row – DONE.
write Morning Pages every day – four.
don’t look at phone until after Morning Pages – for the days I did MPs, I held off on the phone for two or three, honestly not surenot sure.
do an Artist Date – yes, did my seminar at Corporeal Writing with Mitchell S. Jackson (a seminar I first talked about in the Synchronicity post) and counting that as my Artist Date and it was GREAT.
clean my apartment – it’s gotten totally out of control and I have to move in a month so yeah – minimal progress.

Reflections on the Week

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The Artist’s Way Reflections – Synchronicity

Sep24

astronomy Synchronicity takes up a big section of Week Three: Recovering a Sense of Power (you can read about the rest of the chapter here). Enough that I thought it deserved its own post.

I can see why Julia Cameron put it in this chapter on Power, along with Anger and Shame and Growth. Synchronicity is the power of manifestation, of making things happen, of initiative and setting things in motion.

It’s also an aspect of this book that I struggle with. It goes back to my basic struggle with belief. With one side of me being the most hyper-rational skeptic and the other side believing (or at least wanting to) in magic and miracles.

There’s a task in one of the later chapters to record yourself (she was probably thinking tape recorders at the time) reading one of the essays in the book, and I chose this one because I struggle with it so much. (Next time, I’m picking a shorter section to record!)

Synchronicity, and My History Playing With It

When I was doing AW when I was younger, I believed in this synchronicity stuff more, and generally believed in things that could be believed in more. I was maybe a little skeptical but eager to try it out. And the results were…mixed at best.

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The Artist’s Way Reflections – Time Travel: Creative Monsters and Champions

Sep3

task7 Today’s column will cover the Time Travel tasks from Week One. Next week, we’ll move on to Week Two. You can find the full schedule for the rest of the year at the bottom of this post!

I decided to pull out the Time Travel tasks (Tasks 3-7, so most of them) from Week One in their own post for a couple of reasons. One was to be able to ease in, pacing-wise, by spreading Week One out over two weeks here.

Sometimes starting (or restarting) The Artist’s Way can feel a bit like thawing out something frozen, and there’s something painful and scary about that. It can be like melting something that solidified inside you. And it’s not easy.

To me, these Time Travel tasks feel like the first steps in that process. And they can be hard. Last time through, in March, I skipped most of them and only half-heartedly and incompletely did the ones I didn’t skip.

I thought they deserved extra attention in their own post as an acknowledgement that they’re hard, and a way of tackling them together.

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Updating a Screenplay to Current-ish Day

Aug11

Almost two months ago, I finished revising a feature-length screenplay. It’s something that’s been on my back burner for a long time (six years) and I finally had the time to look at it again. One of the most interesting and challenging things about revising it was updating it to current day.

For a little background, I’ve been working on a lot of writing projects since early on in quarantine.

Even then, I often still feel like I’m not as consistent as I’d like to be–I don’t work on my writing every day, some weeks have more off than on days, and some have no on days at all–but even so, it’s the most consistent, longest stretch I’ve had of working on my writing in…at least a decade? Maybe more.

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