Short update

Merry meet,

I almost feel like hiding my last blog post, because I don't want that friend to read it! But then I remembered that I haven't made this blog public in my circles yet, so I guess if I ever do decide to do that, I'll just hide it then.

Why hide? Well, I do feel like it was a bit harsh, now that I've had more of a chance to cool off from it and we've pretty much repaired our friendship. As much as it ever will be, anyway. We still have very different ideas about some things, and she still refuses to consider other views besides her own... but that's just something I'll have to put up with if I want to preserve our friendship, which I realized that I actually do, despite the difficulty at times. We've had some truly good times together over the years and I don't want to lose that.

Anyway! On to the news of the moment.

I recently got a book called The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, on the recommendation of a friend and former classmate to whom I had mentioned my struggles with lack of inspiration. The book is meant to be a sort of way to recover your creative self, and has various tasks and things you can do to help rediscover your passion. I think this came at the perfect time for me. I do feel a bit like I have massive artist's block, so maybe it'll help.

The course includes doing some journalling every morning ("morning pages"). My first thought was to incorporate this into my blog here, but after some consideration I don't think that's a good idea. The book says the morning pages are for my eyes only -- and I'm not even supposed to go back and look over them, as they're just stream-of-consciousness brain dump type things.

So, that might mean my blogging isn't as frequent -- not sure! Oh well. I didn't make any goals for this blog anyway, it's just for fun, so that's not a problem as far as I'm concerned.

I haven't made much progress on my own art since last time I posted. I said I was going to make a list of projects to do, but haven't really done that yet. Partially I've been busy with work and family things (big family event coming up this weekend, family is visiting from all over the country for it!), but partially... I don't know. Just that same lack of motivation I guess? But I have been doing informal research, looking at a lot of different kinds of art that I like and that inspires me, and looking at how these artists do their stuff. Mainly researching fantasy artists as that is the area I think draws me the most.

I'm going to concentrate on the Artist's Way now and see if that helps at all. I think it will!

I'll keep this short and stop there; slept in a lot today (I'm on vacation for 6 days on account of family events!) and I want to get outside for a walk and maybe run a couple errands before evening falls.

Until next time!