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| Success Strategies for Creative Souls#75: Infusing Your Muse |
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My dear friend Deborah Knox sent me an amazing book this month which I have to share with you. It's called Sleeping with Schubert by Bonnie Marson. It is a story of transformation for a bored female lawyer, Liza Durbin, who suddenly becomes inhabited by the composer Franz Schubert's spirit and her life becomes a creative journey extraordinaire. All of a sudden she is playing concerts, listening to all kinds of music, co-composing music, and launched into a career as a performer. While there are many anxious moments and lots of controversy, too, Liza has the opportunity to dance and converse with a musical genius and gets immersed into her own creative gifts and explorations. It is an engaging tale of passion, love, and creative risk-taking. While it is a fictional story, there are many lessons for us creative souls woven into the story, such as :
*Read about the lives of creative people you admire in your field, visit their houses, look at their original works, and study their contemporaries in diverse fields.
*Take a day or a week to pretend you are one of your muses and dress like them, visit their city or adopt their creative schedules or habits and get as much insight as possible into their lives and talents.
*Make a collage about your muse and study it. Then, at the right time, choose his/her best success strategies and incorporate them into your own creative practice.
*When you are ready to grow again, move onto a new muse and begin the process again. It will be life changing!
An interesting note, this was Bonnie's first novel and film rights have just been acquired by Paramount Pictures. Bonnie is a long time artist and her own adventure with a muse has brought her great success.
Bonnie Marson
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Jennifer Louden
My friend Jennifer has an innovative and exciting new book out called The Life Organizer: A Woman's Guide to a Mindful Year. Jennifer is, of course , famous for The Woman's Comfort Book and this new book is full of tips, stories, and prompts to help you to focus on your needs and navigate your dreams. This book emerged after Jennifer tried to squash herself and her life into too many unrealistic time management systems and finally decided to create an intuitive one of her own that really works. Enjoy! Jennifer Louden
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A New Kind of Movie Club The Movie Lover's Club: How to Start Your Own Film Group
A new book by esteemed and engaging writer, Cathleen Rountree, includes tips for selecting movies and members, 250 movie suggestions, insider stories, and discussion questions and film summaries. Cathleen has been a film expert since childhood and her wisdom and depth of understanding of the significance of film is profound. The Movie Lovers Club
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Story Telling
Want to write but don't know where to begin? Carrie Allen, an international writing coach with 20 years of experience has helped hundreds of people become full-fledged writers of fiction(short stories and novels), memoir(personal essays and autobiographies), and business and journalism writing. Read more at http:// www.artofstorytellingonline.com
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