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01 Thursday Sep 2022

Posted by toearlyretirement in Art, Writing

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Artist Date, Craft, Inspiration, play, Projects, Writing

The last few weeks I’ve been reading The Artist’s Way. A friend of mine suggested a group of us go through the book and support one another in doing the activities. I’ve found the book quite interesting, some of the attitude challenges have been insightful, some of the activities have been fun. I decided some were too much bother and didn’t do them, others I meant to do but haven’t yet.

One of the things I’m exploring as part of the journey is blocking activities, namely scrolling endlessly through social media while watching TV, and have taken up crochet. The first couple of test patches I was making mistakes I couldn’t yet identify, but the third one was pretty good. I’m psyching myself up to try an actual pattern, something that will be a thing, a scarf or hat perhaps to start.

The images above a sample of crochet, and two collages I put together from activities in the Artist’s Way. The book has its drawbacks, and it’s very dated in certain aspects, but overall it has been a positive experience.

I’m also continuing work on various writing projects, a sequel to a previous novel, as yet not titled, and a rewrite of a novel I wrote a few years ago. I have a friend who I’m trying to convince to co-write a screen-play, so far it’s only at the pitch stage, and I am regularly working on my poetry.

The course, as described in the book, seems to be opening up a bunch of new and interesting avenues. It will be interesting to see how long they stick around, but on the other hand I suppose it doesn’t matter. The idea of play in my art practices has been a hard one to get my head around. I’ll persevere in trying to be playful and aim for a child-like glee. I hear it’s enjoyable.

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School Holiday Projects

30 Friday Mar 2012

Posted by toearlyretirement in Art, My Journey, Writing

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Competition, Holidays, Inspiration, Photography, Projects, Short Stories, Writing

Some of you may know that the hospitality job I have is working in a school, as a result I have no work over the school holidays (which started today) – this is both a good and bad thing. Good in the sense that I will have lots of time to devote to artistic projects, and bad in the sense where I have no money for two weeks.

I have been reading on one of the blogs I follow about some awesome sounding short story competitions coming up in the next 3 months or so. There are quite a few there that look interesting and I am hoping to submit something to all of them (yes I’m even going to have a crack at the novella one but I’ve never written 15,000 words so we’ll treat that more as an experiment than anything).

My task over the next two weeks is to blog, write first drafts of all of my submissions, go on a day trip with fellow photographer friend Wade to Ballarat (negotiable) to get some awesome nature shots and catch up/get ahead on some of my uni homework.

I would encourage others to also submit things to some of these competitions; I would be happy to work with you on your drafts if you would return the favour. I am excited mostly by the idea of being ‘forced’ to write something in parameters; I find parameters are good for my creativity because otherwise I stare at the blank page for hours.

So who’s in?

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