A few years ago, I tried to read Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. I was floored by the quotes, made it about halfway through, but never gave the exercises a real chance; I really wasn't in the right place to do that back then. My copy of the book went to (someone I thought of as) an actual artist.
Back in November, my dad took Antoine and I to Half Price Books in Columbus. Antoine groaned when he saw the huge stack of books I wanted to buy. It only came to about $80, but as Antoine pointed out, "That's a pound added to our luggage for every dollar." As I told him it would be, everything was fine.
One of the books I bought was a fresh copy of The Artist's Way; the other was Cameron's The Vein of Gold. I lost track of both until one day last week, and I started working on the exercises in The Vein of Gold a few days ago: I wanted to have at least a couple of days' worth of morning pages under my belt before I started a blog about this, and now I've got three. (My handwriting is pretty illegible after half a page, though it definitely gets easier to fill three full pages as I go on.)
I was thinking that this blog might help me to stay committed to staying the course this time around, help me to keep my artist dates, and enhance the process all over. I checked out some Vein of Gold online groups, but some of them seem to take this stuff way too seriously:
This club is dedicated to the study of Julia Cameron's Vein of Gold, as well as a place for us to share and support each other as we embark on our Vision Quest for our creative selves.
I couldn't bring myself to click that link. That is to say: All of this is supposed to be fun, and I'm hoping this blog will keep me honest and unpretentious about it all. Here we go.
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