Deborah Cooke: Author

Over the past few days, there’s been a recurring theme in my conversations with other writers. Lots of them are struggling with getting that “spark”, or with finding the passion to write, or just getting to it amidst the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life. And I have been recommending to these friends that they should give the ARTISTS’ WAY by Julia Cameron a try, because it’s a great 12 week program to getting yourself creating again.

In fact, I’ve said this enough times in the last week that it’s starting to sound like a good idea for me, as well. I like to follow TAW once a year, just to clear out the corners, and it’s been a year and half since I’ve done it.

So, let’s do the ARTISTS’ WAY together. Grab a copy and read the first chapter in the next week. In the meantime, you’ll need to do your three pages every morning.

(Yes, Pam, even you.)

There’s the weekly artist date to do, as well.

I’m going to do mine Sunday to Sunday, even though I started a day late this week. I read the first chapter on Monday (yesterday) and started the exercises. Let’s check in each Monday and see how we’re doing, and cheer each other on as necessary. It’ll be fun to share our artist dates, too – we could give each other ideas.

Let’s get those creative sparks burning again!