Moon Mami Writes

Last week had a conference call with the other women who will be on the panel I will be on in August in the BlogHer Conference in New York. The call was a planning call of sorts to make sure we are on the same page. The moderator is photographer Karen Walrond and she did a great job giving us heads up on what some of the questions will be so we can begin sort out our responses and preparing for the panel. Here is the description for the panel which borrows from Liberated Muse's Tagline "Transforming Spaces into Art Places": Your online presence can be a crucial element as an artist. In this session, we’ll discuss blogging both for and as art. We'll share strategies to make your blog or MySpace/Facebook an extension of and place to showcase the heart behind your art. Join us as moderator and photographer Karen Walrond explores examples of artists, such as painter Carol Gillott and performer Khadijah Ali-Coleman, using social media to impact how they develop and sh...

So, I think I mentioned earlier that I've been reading the book the Artist Way by Julia Cameron. I've been so amazed with how it affirms the artist life I've taken on this past year. One component of the book has an activity called the Morning Papers which has been very cathartic for me. It's essentially a journaling activity but it is something she encourages you to do, writing up to three pages and then putting away and not looking at until at least eight weeks later. All the censoring thoughts, ego filled feelings and opinions and just overall garbage with good too can come out because its a stream of consciousness activity, really. Man, oh, man. The things I've been holding onto. Not really being a blocked creative, I didn't think that I was going to have difficulty doing the morning papers. But, there was some initial hesitancy with just keeping it real with myself. I skipped yesterday too. While on Monday a few things I was able to release, today was a fl...

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