Morning! Haven’t posted anything about what I’ve been up to for some time so I thought I’d take a silly photo (in which a probably copyrighted character steals the show) and put something out there. Here it is. It’s out there.
Not actually sure if I want to give that lamp a lampshade yet. I mean, I don’t really need to give every lamp a shade. It belts out lots of light for when I work at the desk at night. This is morning page style rambling which is really coming from my now scrutinizing of that ridiculous photo.
Even before I left the day job world behind I have been doing morning pages, based on the Artists Way series. If you want to read books on creativity the Julia Cameron books are a natural place that if you haven’t gone to yet you definitely should. Another less know one is The Widening Stream by David Ulrich which I went through over the last month and now my co-writer Cheri Jacobs has my copy. Much in the same way as Julia’s classic it takes you through understanding the whole creative process and then gives you exercises that force you to stretch. I far prefer that over anything that screams affirmation time. My ADHD brain goes straight from people telling me to do an affirmation to “and gosh darnit, people like me.” Some things simply link like that.
Cheri and I have been working more than ever on our different projects including the Ollie and Emma show in a collaborative writing group. Cookeilidh is getting ready for a very busy Christmas season including shows at Craigdarroch Castle which has become something of a band tradition being that it was built for the Scottish Dunsmuir family and designed by Robert Dunsmuir himself.
I also have my recent little project Westsound Magazine which came from honestly trying to figure out what to write about on here. I don’t want to slam everyone who comes to my page with blatent self promotion, which is sort of weird because naturally this site is unashamedly just that. I might try doing some other outside myself posts in future, which I would explain better if I knew what those subjects would be but we will just have to see as the time comes. When I say outside myself I am not referring to some sixth sense sort of thing. I won’t be very likely going there, though I do like spooky and strange sorts of stories.
The Westsound project came from wanting to write about music in a way that was unique to me. Having been trying to make it for twenty years I know how every little bit helps in getting your word out and I now have the background with all this social media stuff, writing and music so the idea flowed together easily and I set up the whole thing Saturday morning with part of the work done in the back of a friend’s car because I was too excited to leave it for later. The reaction to it after not even being a week now has been just great and I have been working out things I can do to make the project all it can possibly be. Part of this will be interviews with the groups since I already have the little Dictaphone recorder that Cheri and I use to work on dialogue for our shows. I honestly don’t know if or when that project will make any money but I just like the idea of doing it in the first place. It’s a bit giving something back. It’s naturally a bit rock and roll. It could be even a little bit country.
I haven’t decided what I will do in terms of putting my band in it. I mean, you don’t want to make it look like that’s the only reason you did it but you can be too self effacing and sometimes its best to just be honest and let that elephant go smashing around the room.
My Adhd thing is moving me along so here is the links to the project-dropping I’ve done. My elephant just jumped into the kitchen and wants a muffin.
Cheers,
Tom 🙂
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