Focus

Another commercial audition today!  A great way to ring in the weekend.  I gotta tell you, I slept for about ten hours last night.  I think I was more exhausted than I realized after Wednesday's marathon day.  But I'm feeling refreshed and ready to kick this day off the right way.  Feeling pretty excited about a new venture I'm starting next week with F.  We are going to do The Artist's Way together and meet once a week to discuss and keep on track.  I've been feeling lots of creative impulses lately without the real notion of where I want to exert my energies.  I want to write...but write what?  A short story?  A screenplay?  A novel?  Not sure.  Not even sure what I want to write about.  I want to paint but haven't.  I feel like there is a lot I want to do that is just bubbling around inside.  I'm thinking that doing this 12 weeks again will help me to focus.  In fact, I only did 9 weeks of the 12 the last time I attempted this.  In 2007.  I've been writing my morning pages on and off though since 2004.  When I first got the book.  This has been a bit of a journey and this will be the first time I attempt it with a friend.  There is a guide in the back for "creative clusters" - doing this program with other people.  The author says,

We all start out the same way - rich in dreams and nothing more.  If we are lucky, we find friends to believe in our dreams with us.  When we do, that creative cluster becomes a magnet to attract our good.

I'm ready to be a magnet.  I'm excited that this will bring us into the new year with a different perspective and interested to see where it takes us.