Creativity Prayer

[laura_seabrook]

Yesterday went well overall.

I actually got to read my journal entries from 1985 (which are based on a fanzine I made at the time) after procrastinating over this for over a week. That means I can read it again and start blocking it out. The afternoon was taken up with certain experiments with text to speech services, which I might use in a supporting video. At least that's what happened when I discovered that I'd taken in the wrong memory stick, and didn't have the photoshop and fireworks files I was going to experiment with. Nonetheless a productive aday, as I also "borrowed" (you actually borrow the key to it) a locker in the Post-Grad room at Huxley library.

This is a bit like when I had a spare room in the audo-visual block, only it's not stuffy as hell, not away from everything else, and I don't have to walk up a hill and along a ramp to get to it. In other words I can leave my stuff in the locker and not lug it around all day with me. Today I'll be taking photos in to sort for sourcing sketches in the first story of Real Life Trips. I realised on Tuesday that I needed more of a variety of things to do at uni. Just reading the journals is boring (even though it's necessary) but reading the journals and doing sketches for that chapter isn't! Also experimenting with Photoshop, Fireworks and Flash is also needed, as I need to know the full limits of the software I'm using, and how to achieve the effects I want. I intend to do animations as part of my exegesis and Flash is the logical choice, as I already have a copy of it.

So, movement (at last) on the uni front! Last night I finally got to the exercises for Chapter 11 of Artist's way. Took the whole fortnight to get that far. Don't know why, except that the exercises are direct and about stuff I have to honest about if I'm ever going to change certain things. Anyway, I discovered that somehow I hadn't created a "creativity prayer" in chapter 4, so I wrote one of the top of my head. Here it is:

Goddess, give me...

...imagination and the incentive to use it;

...ideas and the motivation to try them,

...pictures in my mind and the focus to make them real

...the courage to make mistakes and to learn from them.

Goddess, allow me to realise the artist within.