Meeting with Artist
Screenwriter of the film Studio "paramount" by Julia Cameron for more than ten years of conducting workshops on the development of creative abilities. At the heart of its program, there are two simple exercises: the morning pages and creative date.
Every day right in the morning, before any other business, you need to write several pages of rambling text. It can be reasoning about the weather and current Affairs, stream of consciousness or lyrical reflections on life. The main thing is to write, not thinking of spelling and style. Quietly scribbled on the pages will remain all your daily worries and heavy thoughts, increasingly, in the process begins to get fresh ideas, and, perhaps, once in the text will appear the hero of your yet unwritten novel, as happened once in the life of the Cameron.
Creative Dating is a weekly walks alone, a targeted search of inspiration and new images. Note that any of the companions excluded. You can go to a Museum, art exhibition, take a walk with a camera. Once during such a creative Dating I decided to go to the Park, where he loved to visit in childhood. I fed my Inner Artist cotton candy, we had a heck of a funny children's merry-go-round and realized an old dream - to ride through the night on the tram, when switching to another without looking at the route. In the evening on the last page of the University's notebook appeared the plan of my first published article.
Courses Julia Cameron's designed for constant, daily work. But the morning ten minutes at the Desk and one creative meeting in the week eventually form a completely different style of life, in which creativity is an integral part of it.
Familiarity with the Inner child
In his autobiography "Memories, dreams and reflections" Jung talks about his acquaintance with the Inner child. He suddenly remembered how ten years loved to build castles out of blocks and stones. It was very vivid and touching recollection. "Yeah, " he said to himself, " all this is still alive in me. The kid inside me died and full of creative energy, which I lack. But how do I find the path? "
And then he began to collect stones for the new project: construction toy settlement with the castle and the Church. Every day after lunch, he was busy with his new city. The result of the experiment was the publication of the theory of archetypes.
According to Jung, each of us is a child, adult and parent. The child is the most creative part of our "I". The child does what he wants, he still poorly learned the rules of adult life, and it is absolutely free.
Your Inner child is the same. He loves beautiful movies, upbeat music, bright beads and funny socks. He loves aimlessly walk around and have fun. And yet - can't stand boring interior, and because many workshops of artists, jobs of journalists, designers sometimes resemble a toy store in half with a souvenir shop. The child's time to give the word - believe-he will tell you many interesting stories.
Everyday creativity
Do you think that creativity is only for the chosen ones? Creativity is not only oil painting or "moonlight Sonata" for polished piano. Nothing helps to start to work as domestic creativity.
We can just Wake up, have Breakfast, go to work. To perceive the house exclusively as living space. And can be filled with creativity every habitual action. You can throw in a Cup of a bag of "Lipton", and you half an hour to practice shamanism over the teapot. On the balcony to collect old refrigerators in case of war, and you can put a deck chair to read over morning coffee.
Because of all these is optional actions in your life will not be, the world will not become smaller. But paint it certainly will be missed.
The artist's way
Generally, creative people know how much. They write, draw, play several musical instruments, and in his spare time collecting stained glass Windows. And each of the undertakings supports and fills the ideas of all other classes. If you feel that your life is not enough impressions, take up a new form of creativity.
In the book, Julia Cameron's "the artist's Way" is a great argument in support of this idea: "When I say this to his disciples, I immediately stumble on hard protective reaction: "do you know how many years I will be, when will I learn to really play the piano, write a decent picture/plays? " You know. Exactly the same as you would if you do not learn".
The idea box. In search of a Muse
Disclaimer read. We constantly absorb other people's images. The flow of information is infinite, and he absolutely does not leave time to have your own ideas matured, was formed and came to its material embodiment. Temporary waiver of reading is perhaps the shortest way of a creative crisis. Try for 5-7 days to stop reading books, magazines, Internet pages and of frendley and already on the second day you will understand how much space in your life fills alien information, and on the third or fourth will feel and own transformation from a reader into a writer.
New sources of information. From time to time read unusual literature. Note: in an interview with the writers often talk about what to write new works they inspired reading of religious literature, myths, legends, books on psychology, medicine or physics.
Allow yourself to make mistakes. Very often we refuse creativity because doubt in their abilities. Now only if we seek only to ideal results, it is unlikely that all will go down. Lower the bar claims, allow yourself to be a graphomaniac, awkward dancer and inept artist, and you will feel much easier and more enjoyable will be the creative process.
Lessons geniuses. "I am infinitely reviewed films of Antonioni, Fellini," said the actress Renata Litvinova at the premiere of her first clothing collection. Vasnetsov was inspired by Russian folk tales, Rembrandt antique sculptures, today's filmmakers, writers, animators and artists inspired by their brilliant colleagues. Learn from geniuses, and this process will encourage you in your own direction.
Dutch roulette
. In the Internet community is not too popular, but incredibly interesting for Inner Artist game "Dutch roulette". To quote one of the founders Helen Feldman: "the game every day to create something new. What fancy enough! You can paint a picture or poem, to cut a shelf, bake a cake, fold a paper crane... At worst give birth to a child or to create a new world. And if, falling asleep, you can't remember what created today, for one day grow old. Because they are in your life."
Notes of inspiration. Journalists, writers, designers and other creative people, as a rule, has its own collection of scribbled notebooks: as practice shows, it is always necessary to have on hand a notebook, in which are random thoughts, ideas, quotes, excerpts from books and portraits of fellow travelers in the bus. Unwritten ideas already five minutes are dispersed in space and notebooks later to infinity to draw inspiration.
Generate ideas
. Great ideas do not always appear by themselves, sometimes it is part of a systematic workflow. Ideas come when you refuse the very first ideas and force myself to come up with at least five solutions to creative problems. Brainstorming, making mental maps, finding associations, automatic writing...
Mankind has invented many ways to get inspiration, the main thing is often to contact your Inner Artist. Visualize, create, surprise and be surprised. And not think about work too seriously. It's just a game, in which any regulation is bad form.
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