I am terrified of the thing I am meant to be creating.
Maybe I just need to surrender to it; admit that I have no control and I should just stop pretending that I do.
Something that keeps coming up is Julie Cameron's 'The Artist's Way.' And what I've found in my own life is that when things keep coming up three....four...many times over that I am meant to be listening. Except that 'The Artist's Way' scares me even more than my own book.
I have been resisting it with full force, mostly because I think it's way too hard-core for me. I will eventually get around to it, I suppose, but I've heard that the MASSIVE book takes artists on a twelve-week journey, involving daily, risk-taking activities. Sounds great for people who don't have looming deadlines. Plus my whole life is already full of daily, risk-taking activities, so I'm all full up, thanks.
There is something called the Writer's Diet and it's a 'Spiritual Path to Creativity.' Hm. I'll have a plate of bacon with a side of crippling insecurity, please.
She offers advice on how to get over the stiffness or outright paralysis that creeps in when people make writing a "Big Deal." Well I have two words for you, Julie Cameron. And they start with an 'f' and finish with a 'u'.
She wholeheartedly believes that writing is a process that connects us to the divine.
Also, she creeps me out.
She looks like a munchkin from the Wizard of Oz. You can't see them, but I bet she's wearing green curly-pointed shoes...Actually, she looks a lot like that Simpsons episode when Homer puts marge's make-up on with a paint gun.
Which begs the question: Julie Cameron, did you set the make-up gun to whore??
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