Rituals: writing and dancing
Jan. 28th, 2010 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jacquelinebDo you take your creative rituals seriously?
What struck me as I read the article was not my writing rituals, but rather ones I associate with dancing. Tonight (Wednesday) was the advanced class, and it always begins with the same warm up each week. The teachers has said in the past she wishes she could bring some variation to it, but after reading the article, I was struck by the fact that the same warm-up routine, done ever week, doesn't just warm and prepare the muscles, but it also puts my mind in the right place to be dancing as best as I can.
I love the warm-up. I honestly hope our teacher doesn't change it anytime soon! :)
It also occurs to me that I have few if any writing rituals, but perhaps need some. But how to find something that doesn't feel forced/false/pretentious/useless? There's bound to be something, I know. Perhaps something else to look for this year. Actually, yes, that's precisely something fit in with what I hope to get out of 2010.
What struck me as I read the article was not my writing rituals, but rather ones I associate with dancing. Tonight (Wednesday) was the advanced class, and it always begins with the same warm up each week. The teachers has said in the past she wishes she could bring some variation to it, but after reading the article, I was struck by the fact that the same warm-up routine, done ever week, doesn't just warm and prepare the muscles, but it also puts my mind in the right place to be dancing as best as I can.
I love the warm-up. I honestly hope our teacher doesn't change it anytime soon! :)
It also occurs to me that I have few if any writing rituals, but perhaps need some. But how to find something that doesn't feel forced/false/pretentious/useless? There's bound to be something, I know. Perhaps something else to look for this year. Actually, yes, that's precisely something fit in with what I hope to get out of 2010.
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Date: 2010-01-28 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-28 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-28 12:28 pm (UTC)Blogging is like any other kind of activity, I think, so if I were to blog regularly then I would want a 'pre-blogging' ritual as well. Unless the blog was entirely personal and a bit more random, then perhaps it could be.
But the rituals the article is talking about it more 'ring the bell three times to signal the start of prayer' - rituals of preparation more than the acts themselves. (Fits in nicely with my word of the year, no? ;) )
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Date: 2010-01-31 05:38 am (UTC)And... not sure about all the pre-rituals... it sounds like too many rituals before actually writing.
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