One of my new year's goals is to finally finish The Complete Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, but I've adapted it to cope with my health and mental health issues that make it very difficult to practice on Cameron's terms. We've been sick since we've started so it's been hard even doing the adapted version we compiled, but it doesn't feel as overwhelming to look at with the adaptation.
Here's some of the things weve changed:
1. Morning Pages -> can be written any time, do not have to be 750 words/3 pages, just need to make it a habit to write something. We're aiming for 50-100 words per session, but it's okay if there's less.
2. Weekly tasks + check ins: lack of detail in stories is fine as long as we have a "focal description" that triggers that particular story, list tasks can be arbitrarily shortened, try to do at least 3 tasks, can always do tasks another week if necessary
3. Reading Deprivation Week is modified to allow reading for classes & above tasks but each pleasure read from the mission 101 list and/or our reading pile has to be matched with 100 words or some other creative thing somewhere
4. Artist Dates and Weekly Walks do not have to be done outside of errands, weekly walk can be shorter than 20 minutes
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