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01/12/2002 Entry: "taw group"
I just found out that there's an Artist's Way group forming that's starting on Monday. If I only had the time (and the book, since -- repeat after me -- it's in California....), I'd be there.
TAW really changed my perspective the first time around. I mean, I guess it didn't do as much as I'd hoped it would, but when I read the follow-up The Vein of Gold -- it did amazing things to the way I viewed creativity and art in general. It was the first time I thought of myself as an artist instead of just a struggling writer.
It's weird, too, and synchronous. I've been looking all over for a used copy of TVoG lately. I've had this real urge to re-read it, and haven't been able to find it used, and thus, haven't bought it. (I hate re-buying anything new when I've got my own nearly-new copy waiting for me two thousand miles away. Of course, that probably means it'd sell back to the used bookstore pretty easily if I just buckled down and bought it, but I'm cheap these days and it just breaks my heart to re-buy all this crap when I have other needs.) With all the horrid writer's/artist's block I've been having lately, I think re-reading the both of them might be helpful.
For those of you who are writers/artists -- do you know of any VoG groups? There's tons of TAW ones, I guess, but none on the VoG. (my personal favorite of the two.) And how do you deal with it when there just aren't any good ideas left in your head and you fumble around like a marmoset in the dark? It's making me nuts.
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still blocked,
but functioning.
Replies: 2 comments
Hmm never heard of these books and now I want to buy one. Do you think it's okay to buy Vein of Gold first instead of TAW? (You made VOG sound better)
Posted by Cara @ 01/12/2002 12:42 PM PST
Most of the really important stuff from TAW, Cameron repeats in VOG, in case you only see that one. They're both really worth buying -- there's kind of a different focus, and TAW is more like a whack on the side of the head. Like emergency intervention for artists with creative blockage, whereas VOG is more about nourishing the creativity once it's unblocked.
Personally, VOG was more my style. I got more out of it than the other. But your mileage, of course, may vary. Tax, titling, licensing and fees are owner's responsibility. Please don't drink and drive.
Ahem.
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Posted by beth @ 01/12/2002 06:34 PM PST
