The Artist's Way

allowing ourselves a creative journey, we focus on the length of the trip. “It’s such a long way ...

a new artistic area, but we don’t see where it will get us. We wonder if it will be good for our caree ...

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner’s humility and ...

If you break a screenplay down into daily increments, that small smattering of writing can get do ...

Creative people are dramatic, and we use negative drama to scare ourselves out of our creativity with this ...

page or on the canvas or in the clay or in the acting class or in the act of creativity, however small. Creati ...

anxiety. We prefer the low-grade pain and occasional heart- stopping panic attack to the drudgery of small ...

charge of your creative life, you can easily despair that “my agent doesn’t do enough” instead of ...

As the poet Theodore Roethke phrases it, “We learn by going/Where we have to go.” We have found that w ...

was _________________________________________. I remember she’d tell me to snap out of it by reminding me __ ...

____ The thing is, I am suspicious that ___. I just can’t believe that _____. If I believe I am really ...

I now accept hope. I now act affirmatively. I now accept creative recovery. I now allow myself to heal. I now ...

article in People magazine is the concrete goal. To her, glamour is the emotional center for her dream; ...

New Childhood: What might you have been if you’d had perfect nurturing? Write a page of this fantasy c ...

Does it cost money or is it free? Expensive or cheap? Alone or with somebody? Job related? Phys ...

pages? (Have you been very tempted to abandon them?) How was the experience for you? Did you do your artist da ...

WEEK 9 Recovering a Sense of Compassion This week finds us facing the internal blocks to creativity. ...

This is not merely inaccurate. It is cruel. Accuracy and compassion serve us far better. Blocked artists ...

adolescent rebellion often lingers, making any act of art entail the risk of separation and th ...

ENTHUSIASM “It must take so much discipline to be an artist,” we are often told by well-meaning peop ...