The Artist's Way

broke some of the time. Good work will sometimes not sell. People will buy but not pay promptly. The ma ...

scared and angered when continually put off. Children, as we all know, do not deal well with “Later. Not n ...

bottle even though the perfume stinks because the bottle lets me write about Paris in the thirties. As an artis ...

I get crabby. As an artist, I can literally die from boredom. I kill myself when I fail to nurture m ...

the peculiar. To allow a sense of play in your relationship to accepted standards. To ask the question ...

SUCCESS Creativity is a spiritual practice. It is not something that can be perfected, finished, and set asid ...

advance of his availability. He is in an enviable position on a business level, but he finds it increasin ...

much business. An artist cannot replicate a prior success indefinitely. Those who attempt to work ...

trajectory that, over the long haul, alter the course and the satisfactions of our careers. You are lost the ...

a permanent artistic plateau dooms us, and it, to failure. THE ZEN OF SPORTS Most blocked creatives are cerebr ...

Returning to the notion of ourselves as spiritual radio sets, we need enough energy to raise a strong s ...

Jenny would not call herself an athlete. She does not run in marathons. She does not run in cheery singles ...

quiet green pool of inspiration. That rhythmic, repetitive action transfers the locus of the brain’s ener ...

cornfields were green and gold. The ribbon of black asphalt that Martha rode seemed to her to head ...

challenges. How well am I taking them?” In the daily schooling of her horse, “teaching her to think b ...

of us must rely on our feet for transportation and for recreation. Like Jenny, we can take ...

As we said before, we learn by going where we have to go. Exercise is often the going that move ...

elements that feel holy and happy to us. Many blocked creatives grew up in punitively religious homes. ...

rather, it makes it visible. The moon develops creativity as chemicals develop photographic images. NORMA JEAN ...

will allow yourself, artist’s dates, and vacations just for you. Take out a piece of paper and plan o ...