Learning how to put them links in my text

Since I joined the Artist Way bloggers I was delighted to recieve some comments on my previous post. I want to thank Kat's Paws for organizing this fun connection. For a new blogger like me it is a very happy opportunity to join a creative community. Kat has developed such a long list of bloggers to keep track of that I am extra appreciative that she visited and left an encouraging comment.

As for The Artist's Way - I have done the twelve weeks before. I think it was back in 1995. Wow - a whole decade has gone by. I think it's a great time for a revisit of Julia Cameron's program. Although - if this blogging AW group had not been happening I don't think I would have begun this on my own. I do have a certain hope for my work with the Artist's Way. I often feel blocked when it comes to my ceramic clay work. I seem to go in spurts with it. I am hoping the work in the Artist's way will help me open the creative flow in that area especially. Of course, that means I cannot let this new blogging adventure distract me.

One of my favorite blogs is called A Mindful Life. She also happens to be participating in The Artist's Way. Inspired by her confession I have one of my own to make. I am writing my morning pages on my computer. Gasp!! I started three days ago. Back in 1995, when I first did the AW, I hand wrote all my morning pages just like Cameron instructed in her book. In fact long after I finished the AW weeks I continued to write morning pages until they morphed into a kind of daily journal writing process for me. I want to try something different this time and since I have this awesome computer Journal program I am going to type my morning pages.

I've set up a few rules for myself:

• do them first thing
• no web surfing or email checking until they are done
• keep the fingers moving for a 15 minute time limit
• I don't look at the screen or what I'm writing (this usually isn't a problem because my cat Fox is almost always sitting in front of the screen first thing in the morning...ah cats.....)
• I am not concerned with using proper punctuation or spelling or the delete key
• when I'm done I don't even reread what I wrote
• and if I cannot do them on the computer then I have a back up plan to write them by hand

So far, it is working for me. I recognize some of the same benefits from the first time I did morning pages. Those benefits include waking up both literally and metaphorically to myself. It's also surprising to see how much the critic shows up and the complaining that goes on and on, but at the end of my morning pages I do feel like I've gotten the stuff out of my way.