Hi John, I have intermittently been watching interviews with various screen writers. The interviews I've watched have been wonderful. Anyway, Billy Ray, one of the screen writers, said he writes with movie scores playing in the background. Silence has its place. But how can one resist musical lessons on how to to train your dragon.
Marsha Sent from my iPad On Nov 28, 2011, at 10:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Marsha, > > It's funny you mention the kind of journal you used because that's the kind > I've started with as well - the black and white marbled composition book. Lu > handed it to me and told me to start writing three pages a day but I wasn't > very faithful about it til I actually started reading. Now I'm addicted. I > see a strong resemblance to a meditative practice in it. > > I too, am very glad I started the practice. > > Take care, > > John > > On Nov 27, 2011, at 12:14 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Nov 26, 2011, at 3:43 PM, John Carl wrote: >> >>> >>> My wife is reading a book, as her morning devotional, and she's liking it >>> a lot and she keeps telling me I'd like it a lot too. So she's talked me >>> into it. So far, I've liked it a lot. It talks about creativity and the >>> fact that man is a creation himself, an efficient ordering of good stuff, >>> in a good way, indicates that creativity itself is God. It's called, >>> "The Artist's Way" and its by Julia Cameron, who is now a teacher and has >>> been a successful screen writer. Right off, the introduction grabbed me >>> and hooked into discussions of the utility of theism, which have arisen >>> before: >>> >> >> Hi John, >> >> I know this book. It was the "The Artist's Way" that started me journaling >> every day. I used those black & white, marbled, student, composition books >> and wrote, at the very least, three pages per day. After twelve years and >> within a year after my husband died, I had a ritual and burned them all in >> the barbecue. When I started journaling there were a few days where there >> were three pages of a single word. But usually they were filled with >> "stuff": the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful - stories, letters, >> poems, rants and addressing the good and the bad of a thorny problem, & joy >> - stuff. I don't really remember more than the journaling exercise, but >> along with meditation, I am very happy I started such a practice. >> >> >> Marsha >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
