BRISBANE, Australia – 100/100

Dear Readers,

Thank you for traveling with me on my Australian blog journey; 100 posts, 109 comments, and 1922 views warm my heart. It has been a pleasure to write to you. Your comments, whether here, in person or through email, have been gifts. Look for your Top 10 everyday solutions to creativity obstacles below.

Many of you have expressed a wish to keep reading, which I’m thrilled about. Stay subscribed to stay connected.

water door Blog

I’ll create a second stage blog for artists/creatives while I’m writing in France and Europe – from 25 November 2010 until 25 March 2011. It is about noticing, developing, and cultivating creative thresholds.

A book! Everyday solutions to creativity obstacles continues in a new form

Thanks to your advice, I’ll be taking a good look at this blog to see if it can develop into a broadly useful and stimulating book. My passion for artists runs deep, as you know, and if I can inspire more of us to join the party…I’ll do it! Thank you for your encouragement. I’ll be starting with the posts and pages that you read the most and your comments.

God is the color of my skin and other long-term projects

I will continue to update long-term projects here, so visit as often as you like.

Top 10 everyday solutions to creativity obstacles

  1. #21 - I come before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about
    1. Obstacle – Simultaneously taking yourself too seriously and not seriously enough
    2. Solution – Choose the ecstasy of the real thing
  2. #16 - Vulnerable to the colours of the sea
    1. Obstacle – Trying to explain
    2. Solution – Do the work
  3. #61 – “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
    1. Obstacle – Can’t
    2. Solution – Reach out your hand
  4. 10 Areas where artists can solve problems – 10 posts, all in one easy place
  5. #40 – “Writing is my time machine, takes me to the precise time and place I belong.” from Guest Blogger Thea Easterby of Write, Change, Grow
    1. Obstacle – Technology
    2. Solution – Ask for help

  6. #8 – Kickin’ the solo blues     

    1. Obstacle – Thinking up ideas in isolation
    2. Solution – Let life move you
  7. #48 – “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
    1. Obstacles – They’re what our heroes face
    2. Solutions – What our heroes find
  8. #56 – “I will face my fear…And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.”
    1. Obstacle – The obliterating effect of transformation on the artist
    1. Solution –  Relish the force of creativity changing you
  9. #19 – When getting it done is all you can think of
    1. Obstacle – Impatient for results
    2. Solution – Delight in staying on course

    Rebekah West, Digital image ©2010

  10. #64 – “Color is life, for a world without color seems dead.”
    1. Obstacle – Missing the extraordinary
    2. Solution – Greet what moves you, ask it to dance

Top 5 page visits

  1. Fremantle arts residency + GSC unfolding
  2. About this blog
  3. Community Interaction
  4. God is the color of my skin
  5. Gems & rubbish

 

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