When you're being creative sometimes things get you down. When this happens, you may not notice it right away but it affects your work. Keeping the excitement that comes with being creative at the forefront of your mind is a process. In The Artist's Way there's a tool called you're creative well and it's made up of everything that inspires, books, poems, films , paintings, quirks, songs, jokes. If you keep your well fully stocked you'll never forget what a privilege to experience everything there is to offer.
This challenge, easy as it sounds got off to a slow start because I was letting my well dry up. Work was beating me down. And I was sad....yeah big surprise right? Well when I devoted myself to day of creative it ended up being harder than any of the other challenges....because I'm fucked up. What could be better than being in situations where you just get to play? Sounds great. I had to spend a few days just being lame and trying to remember what made me happy.
I wanted to spend this time, this challenge finger painting and shooting nerf rockets but I didn't know what to do. It was a gradual return, I went and brought an album I always loved on vinyl, Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow the album is famous for their singles. 'Somebody to Love' and 'White Rabbit' I sat and listened to the whole thing beginning to end. No computers or any of that shit. I took in the music totally unplugged. Next I spent some time trying to work on my script, that was hit or miss. Without putting everything out there, my script is about superheros ( I know) and I needed inspiration so I simply wikipedia'd articles on my favorite comic book characters. Within the hour I was on a message board debating which characters would win in a fight. At first I was embarrassed that I spent time thinking about such juvenile shit but then I realized that was just the kind of play I needed. I spent the next day at the bookstore purchasing comic books and books of poetry.
And toady, I decided a better way to guide this challenge is to do multiple artist dates each week. As opposed to one. One of the most interesting artist dates I came across was: 'Create a book of quotes from your friends'
This was awesome because I forgot how many weird friends and acquaintances I have. The quotes were sometime encouraging, sometimes , hilarious, often random and so on.
So I'm back on the right track. As far as vulnerability I think I've said enough shit here. Stay tuned.
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