Artist Way Week Four

A very difficult week; my sketch illustrates many of the feelings I experienced this week. Since a major portion of my day involves reading at one level or another, filling the void, or the opening, of time was very difficult. Especially difficult was the sense of needing to work beyond what felt to me like a dysfunctional barrier in my world.

I doubt there could have been a more challenging time for me to try to experience reading deprivation. Although I enjoy solitude, this week I was totally alone, power was off on several occasions --- and - - - no --- reading!

I made a deliberate choice to read a few things: my handbook for my new camera, the instruction manual for my photo editing software and one book.on writing, “Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction” by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola. I did answer my e-mail and make some limited visits to a couple of special blogs. Since I usually read a number of books every week I still found that limiting my reading opened up plenty of time in my schedule for other activities.

My morning pages went well. I never did figure out what to do for an Artist’s Date although part of the time I did enjoy the solitude…