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RE: Writer's block and what to do with it
here's something that you might try that worked for me back in 1989 when I had artist's block the last time - so it's worked now for 28 years... take an Intuitive Painting class like this one - http://www.paintingfromthesource.com/ this is the one I actually took - but if you are not in the area - you can look for process painting, intuitive painting, etc. Yes I know it's painting - but its all the same to the subconscious mind.
Thank you very much, I will definitely try
Oh I see you are in the Ukraine. Well, here's what you can do. Get some cheap water color paint or tempera paint or even house paint- all colors of the rainbow. It is better if they are liquid so that you can be free-er with them. Put a piece of paper up on the wall or on ground. Somewhere were you can get messy. Next - fill the paper with color as fast as you can without thinking about it. If you can't stop thinking and trying to censor yourself then switch hands so that the brush is in your left hand. Then fill the whole page. Next, add another page to the picture - up down left right top bottom which ever way you feel like - and fill that page - making sure to be extending the first page not just making a separate block of color - continue to add pages until you get tired. Once you are tired, take a break and eat something - come back to it. And then without thinking begin, using your left hand, to find shapes or objects in the abstract colors with your brush - outline them - work on this one painting for about 8 hours - don't allow yourself to say you are done until you really are done - do this again another day...http://joannawhitney.weebly.com/intuitive-painting.html you can look at this slide show to get an idea of what I am talking about - this should release your writer's block - because you can find a story to tell in your picture surely...let me know how it goes.