So 24 hours later, I'm through Steven Pressfield's The War of Art. Without looking back at my notes and highlights, here are the take-aways for me, the specifics the little voice inside me is urging me to pay attention to. Stop speculating about art's mysteries. Be a craftsman. Make the work. Every day. The mysteries …
A Brief Note On “The War of Art”
How do you define a critic? I don't remember where I first heard it, but here's the definition I use, though frankly, until recently, I'd forgotten it. "A critic mediates between an artist and his work." Yesterday, I got a note about the latest draft of the my current project. It wasn't a note I …
How to Follow Your Heart: Part 2
Start with a cup of coffee. Fast from coffee altogether. But pay attention, and let words mean something. To pay requires cost. Be quiet. Find the quiet in the noise. If no quiet can be found, then sleep, and dream of it. Breathe. Oxygen and its life are rarely overrated. Holding breath …
READERS WANTED: Reflections on Finding an Audience
"Does it matter if you have a large readership? Do you want more hits? If you do, then why? The answer to that question is very important." My friend Jenny always asks good questions. To have a moment of theatre, you need two things. An actor and an audience. Does it need to be a …
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Focusing Wonder, Narrowing Mystery
Help me out here. The project? Focusing my blogging, narrowing my subject matter. Answering the question: what is all this blogging about? I mean the blogging in the jeffberryman.com world. If you've been reading my work for awhile, tell me what you think I'm up to. It's not that I don't know...exactly--after all, …
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