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Day 5

Today's morning pages will be afternoon pages. Actually, they will be Nap Pages, accomplished while little Tess naps, should she decide to do so this afternoon.

But progress on other fronts: I'll go to a beautiful artist's gallery in Black Mountain on Thursday for my Artist's Date--they have a show on soil, which is serendipitous because of a project I'm doing right now.

Yesterday, I enlisted myself in a writing course, "Give up and Write: An Advanced Creative Prose Workshop" that begins on February 14th and that will put me in the company of writers. Already the fear of comparison arises, seconded by the self challenge that it presents. Belly up to the bar, sign up, enlist, put it out there in the universe--write.

Also this week is the residency program for the Warren Wilson College MFA program, bringing writers to town for readings and lectures that are open to the public, so I'm going to several of them. Writing all around, a nice start, a week with intention about writing.

Begin today

Day 1

I've joined an online group of people I've never met to blog our way through Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way.

I've started and stopped this process (on my own) many times before, so am looking forward to an external accountability to keep me going. I'm also in a very different place now than I have been in the past when I attempted this focus on creativity, so am ready for the daily challenge and looking forward to the community of learners that gathers around this process.

For the moment, my assignment is to find my copy of The Artist's Way and read all the material up to chapter one. The group conversation will begin on January 7th with chapter one.

I can't think of a nicer way to start a whole new year: new notebook, full fountainpen, fresh paper, blank screen and some sturdy raspberries to snack on.