I wasn't sure what to expect from Book Club yesterday. I went in feeling kind of blah about the book and the next twelve weeks, but I came away super energized by the wonderful group of artists who came to chat about the book. I appreciated each of us having a unique take on the book and our own ideas to share. Not one person shied away from speaking their mind, each one of us felt comfortable and confident enough to express our views. It was a real treat to listen to the perspectives of those around me and to feel the momentum of creativity grow whether people liked the book or not.
In case you don't know, the March-April Book Clubs are going to be a little bit different from the usual format. We are tackling Julia Cameron's famous book, The Artist's Way. It takes twelve weeks to work through the book and we are doing it together — for better or worse. Every Wednesday from March 8 – May 24, I will be sharing my impressions from the week. And I hope you'll share yours too! I will be streaming live at 12:15pm EST on both my YouTube channel and in the Balzer Designs Students Facebook group on those 12 Wednesdays. This is the week one replay:
As always, Book Club is free and open to all. You can find all of the Book Club archives on my website HERE.
So, let's join forces to explore The Artist's Way! I'm excited to hear from all of you, to find out what you've discovered over the course of the program, what challenges you've faced, and what strategies you've used to overcome them. We are in this together, and now is the time to find out what The Artist's Way has to offer you — if anything. So if you're looking to push yourself outside of your comfort zone, to explore new perspectives, and to rediscover the creative spirit that lives within us, then I invite you to join me on this journey. Let's buckle up and see where this takes us as we work together to unleash the potential of our creative minds! I hope you will participate and do let me know if you'd like to come on camera and discuss your Artist's Way experience!
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I worked through The Artists Way when it first came out. I completed the process and I learned a lot about myself along the way. One of the things I learned is that if I wrote about the same thing in the same way three times, it was a time to look at that topic more in detail and see what I could do to change the conversation. More writing, talking to someone, arting it out. Something to change the dynamic. Can’t say that was always easy. Now I am 70 years old, with multiple health problems, but still artying the best I can. I pulled out my dogged eared copy of my book so I can read through it again. Don’t know that I can do all the exercises, but I can at the very least look at it again through older lenses. So glad you are doing this. thanks as always for sharing.
I worked through The Artists Way when it first came out. I completed the process and I learned a lot about myself along the way. One of the things I learned is that if I wrote about the same thing in the same way three times, it was a time to look at that topic more in detail and see what I could do to change the conversation. More writing, talking to someone, arting it out. Something to change the dynamic. Can’t say that was always easy. Now I am 70 years old, with multiple health problems, but still artying the best I can. I pulled out my dogged eared copy of my book so I can read through it again. Don’t know that I can do all the exercises, but I can at the very least look at it again through older lenses. So glad you are doing this. thanks as always for sharing.
I worked through The Artists Way when it first came out. I completed the process and I learned a lot about myself along the way. One of the things I learned is that if I wrote about the same thing in the same way three times, it was a time to look at that topic more in detail and see what I could do to change the conversation. More writing, talking to someone, arting it out. Something to change the dynamic. Can’t say that was always easy. Now I am 70 years old, with multiple health problems, but still artying the best I can. I pulled out my dogged eared copy of my book so I can read through it again. Don’t know that I can do all the exercises, but I can at the very least look at it again through older lenses. So glad you are doing this. thanks as always for sharing.
I worked through The Artists Way when it first came out. I completed the process and I learned a lot about myself along the way. One of the things I learned is that if I wrote about the same thing in the same way three times, it was a time to look at that topic more in detail and see what I could do to change the conversation. More writing, talking to someone, arting it out. Something to change the dynamic. Can’t say that was always easy. Now I am 70 years old, with multiple health problems, but still artying the best I can. I pulled out my dogged eared copy of my book so I can read through it again. Don’t know that I can do all the exercises, but I can at the very least look at it again through older lenses. So glad you are doing this. thanks as always for sharing.
I worked through The Artists Way when it first came out. I completed the process and I learned a lot about myself along the way. One of the things I learned is that if I wrote about the same thing in the same way three times, it was a time to look at that topic more in detail and see what I could do to change the conversation. More writing, talking to someone, arting it out. Something to change the dynamic. Can’t say that was always easy. Now I am 70 years old, with multiple health problems, but still artying the best I can. I pulled out my dogged eared copy of my book so I can read through it again. Don’t know that I can do all the exercises, but I can at the very least look at it again through older lenses. So glad you are doing this. thanks as always for sharing.
I worked through The Artists Way when it first came out. I completed the process and I learned a lot about myself along the way. One of the things I learned is that if I wrote about the same thing in the same way three times, it was a time to look at that topic more in detail and see what I could do to change the conversation. More writing, talking to someone, arting it out. Something to change the dynamic. Can’t say that was always easy. Now I am 70 years old, with multiple health problems, but still artying the best I can. I pulled out my dogged eared copy of my book so I can read through it again. Don’t know that I can do all the exercises, but I can at the very least look at it again through older lenses. So glad you are doing this. thanks as always for sharing.
I worked through The Artists Way when it first came out. I completed the process and I learned a lot about myself along the way. One of the things I learned is that if I wrote about the same thing in the same way three times, it was a time to look at that topic more in detail and see what I could do to change the conversation. More writing, talking to someone, arting it out. Something to change the dynamic. Can’t say that was always easy. Now I am 70 years old, with multiple health problems, but still artying the best I can. I pulled out my dogged eared copy of my book so I can read through it again. Don’t know that I can do all the exercises, but I can at the very least look at it again through older lenses. So glad you are doing this. thanks as always for sharing.
I bought the book a few years ago and only got to page 56 – just reading. Not doing anything, although I did try the morning pages for a few days. Not working for me. I will at least try to read the whole book. And following all your discussions. Thank you so much. I’m 64 yrs old, living in the good old RSA and tried my hands at a lot of different arts and crafts. I haven’t discovered anything yet that has me leaping out of bed in the morning.
I bought the book a few years ago and only got to page 56 – just reading. Not doing anything, although I did try the morning pages for a few days. Not working for me. I will at least try to read the whole book. And following all your discussions. Thank you so much. I’m 64 yrs old, living in the good old RSA and tried my hands at a lot of different arts and crafts. I haven’t discovered anything yet that has me leaping out of bed in the morning.
I bought the book a few years ago and only got to page 56 – just reading. Not doing anything, although I did try the morning pages for a few days. Not working for me. I will at least try to read the whole book. And following all your discussions. Thank you so much. I’m 64 yrs old, living in the good old RSA and tried my hands at a lot of different arts and crafts. I haven’t discovered anything yet that has me leaping out of bed in the morning.
I bought the book a few years ago and only got to page 56 – just reading. Not doing anything, although I did try the morning pages for a few days. Not working for me. I will at least try to read the whole book. And following all your discussions. Thank you so much. I’m 64 yrs old, living in the good old RSA and tried my hands at a lot of different arts and crafts. I haven’t discovered anything yet that has me leaping out of bed in the morning.
I bought the book a few years ago and only got to page 56 – just reading. Not doing anything, although I did try the morning pages for a few days. Not working for me. I will at least try to read the whole book. And following all your discussions. Thank you so much. I’m 64 yrs old, living in the good old RSA and tried my hands at a lot of different arts and crafts. I haven’t discovered anything yet that has me leaping out of bed in the morning.
I bought the book a few years ago and only got to page 56 – just reading. Not doing anything, although I did try the morning pages for a few days. Not working for me. I will at least try to read the whole book. And following all your discussions. Thank you so much. I’m 64 yrs old, living in the good old RSA and tried my hands at a lot of different arts and crafts. I haven’t discovered anything yet that has me leaping out of bed in the morning.
I bought the book a few years ago and only got to page 56 – just reading. Not doing anything, although I did try the morning pages for a few days. Not working for me. I will at least try to read the whole book. And following all your discussions. Thank you so much. I’m 64 yrs old, living in the good old RSA and tried my hands at a lot of different arts and crafts. I haven’t discovered anything yet that has me leaping out of bed in the morning.
I listened to the discussion on Wednesday but couldn’t work out how to make comments at the time. I will know for next week. I completely agreed with Julie’s initial reactions, I didn’t like the “higher being” stuff, and I couldn’t see how it related to art rather than creative writing. I have done morning pages about 50% of the days: unless I do it early, I forget about it, but finding the time/motivation to do it early is sometimes tricky. I cannot yet see how morning writing (which tends to be very mundane stuff about daily life and family stuff) will feed through to my efforts at art. If I was doing this solo I would probably have given up already, but there is something good about the group experience, which makes me want to stick it out and maybe, just maybe (because I recognise that lots of people over many years have apparently found it all very helpful) by week 12 I will have found the purpose of it all. Either way, thank you for plunging us into this journey Julie. At the very least the process of reading and discussing it with people from all over will be an experience in itself. I’m based in the UK, by the way.
I listened to the discussion on Wednesday but couldn’t work out how to make comments at the time. I will know for next week. I completely agreed with Julie’s initial reactions, I didn’t like the “higher being” stuff, and I couldn’t see how it related to art rather than creative writing. I have done morning pages about 50% of the days: unless I do it early, I forget about it, but finding the time/motivation to do it early is sometimes tricky. I cannot yet see how morning writing (which tends to be very mundane stuff about daily life and family stuff) will feed through to my efforts at art. If I was doing this solo I would probably have given up already, but there is something good about the group experience, which makes me want to stick it out and maybe, just maybe (because I recognise that lots of people over many years have apparently found it all very helpful) by week 12 I will have found the purpose of it all. Either way, thank you for plunging us into this journey Julie. At the very least the process of reading and discussing it with people from all over will be an experience in itself. I’m based in the UK, by the way.
I listened to the discussion on Wednesday but couldn’t work out how to make comments at the time. I will know for next week. I completely agreed with Julie’s initial reactions, I didn’t like the “higher being” stuff, and I couldn’t see how it related to art rather than creative writing. I have done morning pages about 50% of the days: unless I do it early, I forget about it, but finding the time/motivation to do it early is sometimes tricky. I cannot yet see how morning writing (which tends to be very mundane stuff about daily life and family stuff) will feed through to my efforts at art. If I was doing this solo I would probably have given up already, but there is something good about the group experience, which makes me want to stick it out and maybe, just maybe (because I recognise that lots of people over many years have apparently found it all very helpful) by week 12 I will have found the purpose of it all. Either way, thank you for plunging us into this journey Julie. At the very least the process of reading and discussing it with people from all over will be an experience in itself. I’m based in the UK, by the way.
I listened to the discussion on Wednesday but couldn’t work out how to make comments at the time. I will know for next week. I completely agreed with Julie’s initial reactions, I didn’t like the “higher being” stuff, and I couldn’t see how it related to art rather than creative writing. I have done morning pages about 50% of the days: unless I do it early, I forget about it, but finding the time/motivation to do it early is sometimes tricky. I cannot yet see how morning writing (which tends to be very mundane stuff about daily life and family stuff) will feed through to my efforts at art. If I was doing this solo I would probably have given up already, but there is something good about the group experience, which makes me want to stick it out and maybe, just maybe (because I recognise that lots of people over many years have apparently found it all very helpful) by week 12 I will have found the purpose of it all. Either way, thank you for plunging us into this journey Julie. At the very least the process of reading and discussing it with people from all over will be an experience in itself. I’m based in the UK, by the way.
I listened to the discussion on Wednesday but couldn’t work out how to make comments at the time. I will know for next week. I completely agreed with Julie’s initial reactions, I didn’t like the “higher being” stuff, and I couldn’t see how it related to art rather than creative writing. I have done morning pages about 50% of the days: unless I do it early, I forget about it, but finding the time/motivation to do it early is sometimes tricky. I cannot yet see how morning writing (which tends to be very mundane stuff about daily life and family stuff) will feed through to my efforts at art. If I was doing this solo I would probably have given up already, but there is something good about the group experience, which makes me want to stick it out and maybe, just maybe (because I recognise that lots of people over many years have apparently found it all very helpful) by week 12 I will have found the purpose of it all. Either way, thank you for plunging us into this journey Julie. At the very least the process of reading and discussing it with people from all over will be an experience in itself. I’m based in the UK, by the way.
I listened to the discussion on Wednesday but couldn’t work out how to make comments at the time. I will know for next week. I completely agreed with Julie’s initial reactions, I didn’t like the “higher being” stuff, and I couldn’t see how it related to art rather than creative writing. I have done morning pages about 50% of the days: unless I do it early, I forget about it, but finding the time/motivation to do it early is sometimes tricky. I cannot yet see how morning writing (which tends to be very mundane stuff about daily life and family stuff) will feed through to my efforts at art. If I was doing this solo I would probably have given up already, but there is something good about the group experience, which makes me want to stick it out and maybe, just maybe (because I recognise that lots of people over many years have apparently found it all very helpful) by week 12 I will have found the purpose of it all. Either way, thank you for plunging us into this journey Julie. At the very least the process of reading and discussing it with people from all over will be an experience in itself. I’m based in the UK, by the way.
I listened to the discussion on Wednesday but couldn’t work out how to make comments at the time. I will know for next week. I completely agreed with Julie’s initial reactions, I didn’t like the “higher being” stuff, and I couldn’t see how it related to art rather than creative writing. I have done morning pages about 50% of the days: unless I do it early, I forget about it, but finding the time/motivation to do it early is sometimes tricky. I cannot yet see how morning writing (which tends to be very mundane stuff about daily life and family stuff) will feed through to my efforts at art. If I was doing this solo I would probably have given up already, but there is something good about the group experience, which makes me want to stick it out and maybe, just maybe (because I recognise that lots of people over many years have apparently found it all very helpful) by week 12 I will have found the purpose of it all. Either way, thank you for plunging us into this journey Julie. At the very least the process of reading and discussing it with people from all over will be an experience in itself. I’m based in the UK, by the way.
Hi, Julie!
I couldn’t do morning pages, either. Don’t even remember how long I lasted, but what I did do was, I started writing morning pages on deli paper. I think I read in the book that morning pages are supposed to be like writing stream of consciousness. No worry about spelling, grammar, punctuation, or neatness. So, I wrote very loosely and quickly. Basically, illegibly. Then, I used them in my collage pieces! I have tried very hard to read the pages now that they are part of my art and seen by other people. I can make out some words, but no deep dark thoughts are visible. Sadly, I am out of this collage fodder now. Didn’t take long since I didn’t have many pages. Morning pages can be a good idea, but it took up too much of my time and not how I wanted to spend that precious time.i
Hi, Julie!
I couldn’t do morning pages, either. Don’t even remember how long I lasted, but what I did do was, I started writing morning pages on deli paper. I think I read in the book that morning pages are supposed to be like writing stream of consciousness. No worry about spelling, grammar, punctuation, or neatness. So, I wrote very loosely and quickly. Basically, illegibly. Then, I used them in my collage pieces! I have tried very hard to read the pages now that they are part of my art and seen by other people. I can make out some words, but no deep dark thoughts are visible. Sadly, I am out of this collage fodder now. Didn’t take long since I didn’t have many pages. Morning pages can be a good idea, but it took up too much of my time and not how I wanted to spend that precious time.i
Hi, Julie!
I couldn’t do morning pages, either. Don’t even remember how long I lasted, but what I did do was, I started writing morning pages on deli paper. I think I read in the book that morning pages are supposed to be like writing stream of consciousness. No worry about spelling, grammar, punctuation, or neatness. So, I wrote very loosely and quickly. Basically, illegibly. Then, I used them in my collage pieces! I have tried very hard to read the pages now that they are part of my art and seen by other people. I can make out some words, but no deep dark thoughts are visible. Sadly, I am out of this collage fodder now. Didn’t take long since I didn’t have many pages. Morning pages can be a good idea, but it took up too much of my time and not how I wanted to spend that precious time.i
Hi, Julie!
I couldn’t do morning pages, either. Don’t even remember how long I lasted, but what I did do was, I started writing morning pages on deli paper. I think I read in the book that morning pages are supposed to be like writing stream of consciousness. No worry about spelling, grammar, punctuation, or neatness. So, I wrote very loosely and quickly. Basically, illegibly. Then, I used them in my collage pieces! I have tried very hard to read the pages now that they are part of my art and seen by other people. I can make out some words, but no deep dark thoughts are visible. Sadly, I am out of this collage fodder now. Didn’t take long since I didn’t have many pages. Morning pages can be a good idea, but it took up too much of my time and not how I wanted to spend that precious time.i
Hi, Julie!
I couldn’t do morning pages, either. Don’t even remember how long I lasted, but what I did do was, I started writing morning pages on deli paper. I think I read in the book that morning pages are supposed to be like writing stream of consciousness. No worry about spelling, grammar, punctuation, or neatness. So, I wrote very loosely and quickly. Basically, illegibly. Then, I used them in my collage pieces! I have tried very hard to read the pages now that they are part of my art and seen by other people. I can make out some words, but no deep dark thoughts are visible. Sadly, I am out of this collage fodder now. Didn’t take long since I didn’t have many pages. Morning pages can be a good idea, but it took up too much of my time and not how I wanted to spend that precious time.i
Hi, Julie!
I couldn’t do morning pages, either. Don’t even remember how long I lasted, but what I did do was, I started writing morning pages on deli paper. I think I read in the book that morning pages are supposed to be like writing stream of consciousness. No worry about spelling, grammar, punctuation, or neatness. So, I wrote very loosely and quickly. Basically, illegibly. Then, I used them in my collage pieces! I have tried very hard to read the pages now that they are part of my art and seen by other people. I can make out some words, but no deep dark thoughts are visible. Sadly, I am out of this collage fodder now. Didn’t take long since I didn’t have many pages. Morning pages can be a good idea, but it took up too much of my time and not how I wanted to spend that precious time.i
Hi, Julie!
I couldn’t do morning pages, either. Don’t even remember how long I lasted, but what I did do was, I started writing morning pages on deli paper. I think I read in the book that morning pages are supposed to be like writing stream of consciousness. No worry about spelling, grammar, punctuation, or neatness. So, I wrote very loosely and quickly. Basically, illegibly. Then, I used them in my collage pieces! I have tried very hard to read the pages now that they are part of my art and seen by other people. I can make out some words, but no deep dark thoughts are visible. Sadly, I am out of this collage fodder now. Didn’t take long since I didn’t have many pages. Morning pages can be a good idea, but it took up too much of my time and not how I wanted to spend that precious time.i
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One way MP can work *with* your art (don’t know about “through”) might be that you’ll discover less mundane things to write about. Looking back 30 years to mine I see that I often, if not always, started writing with about dreams. A writer named Laurie Wagner teaches Wild Writing, based on Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing Down the Bones. N her free classes, she gives us prompts after reading us a poem. A prompt might be “It seems that … “ or “I’m not sure that … “ Maybe reading a poem or prompts might help with the writing part of AW?
One way MP can work *with* your art (don’t know about “through”) might be that you’ll discover less mundane things to write about. Looking back 30 years to mine I see that I often, if not always, started writing with about dreams. A writer named Laurie Wagner teaches Wild Writing, based on Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing Down the Bones. N her free classes, she gives us prompts after reading us a poem. A prompt might be “It seems that … “ or “I’m not sure that … “ Maybe reading a poem or prompts might help with the writing part of AW?
One way MP can work *with* your art (don’t know about “through”) might be that you’ll discover less mundane things to write about. Looking back 30 years to mine I see that I often, if not always, started writing with about dreams. A writer named Laurie Wagner teaches Wild Writing, based on Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing Down the Bones. N her free classes, she gives us prompts after reading us a poem. A prompt might be “It seems that … “ or “I’m not sure that … “ Maybe reading a poem or prompts might help with the writing part of AW?
One way MP can work *with* your art (don’t know about “through”) might be that you’ll discover less mundane things to write about. Looking back 30 years to mine I see that I often, if not always, started writing with about dreams. A writer named Laurie Wagner teaches Wild Writing, based on Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing Down the Bones. N her free classes, she gives us prompts after reading us a poem. A prompt might be “It seems that … “ or “I’m not sure that … “ Maybe reading a poem or prompts might help with the writing part of AW?
One way MP can work *with* your art (don’t know about “through”) might be that you’ll discover less mundane things to write about. Looking back 30 years to mine I see that I often, if not always, started writing with about dreams. A writer named Laurie Wagner teaches Wild Writing, based on Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing Down the Bones. N her free classes, she gives us prompts after reading us a poem. A prompt might be “It seems that … “ or “I’m not sure that … “ Maybe reading a poem or prompts might help with the writing part of AW?
One way MP can work *with* your art (don’t know about “through”) might be that you’ll discover less mundane things to write about. Looking back 30 years to mine I see that I often, if not always, started writing with about dreams. A writer named Laurie Wagner teaches Wild Writing, based on Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing Down the Bones. N her free classes, she gives us prompts after reading us a poem. A prompt might be “It seems that … “ or “I’m not sure that … “ Maybe reading a poem or prompts might help with the writing part of AW?
One way MP can work *with* your art (don’t know about “through”) might be that you’ll discover less mundane things to write about. Looking back 30 years to mine I see that I often, if not always, started writing with about dreams. A writer named Laurie Wagner teaches Wild Writing, based on Natalie Goldberg’s book Writing Down the Bones. N her free classes, she gives us prompts after reading us a poem. A prompt might be “It seems that … “ or “I’m not sure that … “ Maybe reading a poem or prompts might help with the writing part of AW?