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Initially it is your teacher who requires the talent.
Kathy Shell is an award winning artist and author of  multi mediums and subjects with over 50 years professional painting experience.  All she requires of her students initially is the desire to learn from a teacher who will demonstrate how and explain why and constructively critique your own work. 
Kathy does not waste your time or money by giving hobby classes. 
Kathy Shell teaches because she LOVES to teach people who want to learn. These are not classes for those who are just seeking a social gathering to paint in with just a little assistance.  This is the right way to learn if you are eager for 'more,' than a hobby class.  Your work will develop steadily as you learn in an environment that nurtures the artist in you.   Kathy Shell is herself an active successful, author artist.
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I have been away from this art website for a while while I wrote a novel.  My novel is completed now,and I am very happy with how it is developing. it stands at 110,000 words which is a good size for a first novel.  The massive editing begins now which i can relate to sculpting. I carve off bits and add other bits to develop it to the best it can be.

Writing a novel is not unlike completing a major art work and every bit as satisfying. I stopped this week and journaling about my latest creation and I have also shown here for my readers the vast array of inspirational books available on mixed medium journaling.  Here are some images of the people in my novel. The website for the novel is Dreaming Billabong

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The Art Journal Workshop Break Through, Explore, and Make it Your Own

By Traci Bunkers

This book breaks down the entire working process of journaling with step-by-step photos and instructions from start to finish: how to use different media such as paint, photographs, and collage, and contains journaling prompts and exercises. The book discusses the benefits of visual journaling, and includes exercises about what to do when you are in a creative funk or feeling down or uninspired. The book includes a DVD featuring Traci Bunkers creating many of the visual journal pages shown throughout the book. This visual guide enhances the information in the book, showing her work process in a way that goes beyond what can be captured in still photographs or through text.

About the Author
Through her one-woman business, Bonkers Handmade Originals, Traci Bunkers sells her nifty creations. She also creates an artzine called Tub Legs, designs knitwear, and is a knitting, spinning, and crochet technical editor. She teaches workshops and her artwork has been published in numerous books and magazines. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.


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The crazy artist muse now Shares Art Studio with the mad writer muse. 
The two muses now share a studio that invites creating with a passion.

The brushes and paint are all on the far long wall of the studio on a lovely long timber table space 6 meters long by one meter wide.

On the near wall, where I once had a trestle table of assorted stored items, i have been downsizing through my eBay store and gradually reducing the clutter.  I removed the trestle table into the shed to store, and moved three good glass topped tables into this area two nights ago and set these up as my fiction novel writing work area.  This brought the need for a fly wire door out of the C priority list into the A need so I bought an oversize timber door at Bunnings plus accessories and a neighbour has done most of the work fitting this for us and I thanked him with the gift of a 10 x 12" framed landscape oil painting of Australian bush.

I think the mad writer can co-exist with the crazy artist, they will each understand the others, passion to be creative. :-) and this studio gives off vibes to create art with a passion.  I believe both painting and writing muses are going to be very creatively content from now on.

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The title of my novel will remain a secret until I am ready to publish so I will simply call my first novel, “Secret”, to give it a name, to talk about it here..

Tonight I have spent 4.5 hours in preparation time on my novel, “Secret”..

I have not written a word of my novel, I do not intend to write the novel until November,

Tonight I completed the time management planning to write the novel and allocated other aspects of my life into a secondary position in my life to give the novel, a primary focus

The division of Time I have allocated to each stage.

I have generously allowed myself 21 hours a week to work on the novel.

1/ Preparation and research - 3 months, Begun.

2/ 1 month to write, the novel, in November.

3/ 5 months to get it properly, edited and re written to a finished stage.

Total of 9 months, lol, ‘that would be right, that is how long it takes to produce a child’.
 

Time Management Plan to Gain a 21 Hour Novel writing working week.

1/I have allocated 3 hours x 7 days a week to my novel writing project, giving me a 21 hour novel writing week. This should be more than adequate to do a good job.  2/ I will continue to blog and I will do EBooks and art prints for sale from my blogs also free form link work and advertising as I will need to save my money in case I self publish a book

3/ I will discontinue my gym and focus on ¾ of an hour of cardio exercise and ¾ of an hour of strength training exercises on alternate days, from ‘home’ as this will save me time. I will not be active in the 12wbt forums as I need to find additional time I have to cut back on some actions. Similarly, I may move entirely into my Kathy Shell page on facebook to chat, my site I publish my blogs to, purely due to needing to find this extra 3 hours a day.

4/ As my time for exercising will be reduced I will need to be more focused on eating clean.

5/ I will be packing my paints away, for some time. A novel will be my major work of art for the year, I have achieved painting I am ready for new achievements.

6/I may learn how to download audio books to an IPod or get a portable CD player to listen to audio books while exercising fulfilling some additional exercise benefit and learning more  about the craft of novel writing by listening to the work of good authors.

7/ After an initial stop start attempt to begin the novel preparation work, earlier in the night I realized that this work will have to happen after reg retires for the night. 

8/I discovered as I researched my novel, I found great ideas for blogs so I actually deviated and did some blog topics while they were flowing off my fingers into print easily,  that 'works for me', in the same way as sharing how I write this novel, can be a useful blog topic for those interested.

Happy with the time management plan above and placing it into action immediately, I am ready to write the

Plot Chart

 I am ready to begin to write the rough plot chart for the novel, plan where it will start and how it will end and prepare my character descriptions.


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"Love what you do

and you'll never have to work a day in your life."

 

I love that quote. That is a fantastic way to live your life.  In many ways I do live my life that way. I am not conventional; I do not try to do what is, expected, of me.

I am comfortable in a mess as long as I can find the things I need and things are clean and hygienic. After all nature has litter around the place and I love the landscape with its fallen leaves and fern fronds with insect chew marks, the landscape and my home does not need to be perfectly manicured for me to be happy.  Too much tidiness would cut into my creative time, my 'work', that I love too much to call work.

My idea of beautiful hands would be hands reaching out to aid someone or up to their wrists in wet clay or other creative medium. My vision of beauty is different to the conventional. I see beauty in eroded mountains and scars on trees and wonder that people view these things as flaws in people when they give such character.  I am certain artists see life differently.

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The writer in me is developing along with the painter, and just like when I was a painter I am now turning away work I don’t have the time to do and choosing, only the best assignments or the best businesses to do work for and enjoying planning the novel I hope to write in November.

Creative people, never retire, we just reinvent ourselves. Yes, I am a carer, but I retained my creativity, by adapting my talents to those compatible with my new lifestyle.  Where I once was, the painter who wrote, I am now the writer who paints. By adapting to my changing needs, demands and environment, I have retained the love for my work. My work is my play, my passion.  

My sister was a writer, by profession, she also painted, (the reverse of my early career choice), so we mentored each other. She then adapted to becoming a painter, then as her life needs changed, she returned to our early life upbringing, that of working with fabrics. We were born into 'the rag trade', my mother being a fashion designer. My sister now makes beautiful art quilts for galleries in San Francisco, loves her work and is highly respected for it.  My family, past and present, have all gravitated towards doing what they love and turning it into a profession.  This is a great way to live if you can do it. 

"What do you love enough to make your life's work and then never work a day in your life?"


 

 I recently received my manuscript from my editor. Yes, though I am an editor, a published author and deemed a prolific writer, I practice what I teach my clients “Get your manuscript professionally edited.”

I’m of the opinion that it doesn’t matter what level of education you have, when you are too close to your work, you can miss the obvious. This was made more evident to me after receiving my manuscript. Though there were no major grammatical or punctuation errors, my editor made some superb suggestions. The book could probably work without them, but her recommendations served to strengthen and enhance the story, making the scenes more realistic and relatable. For that I’m grateful.

With this in mind, this article is about you taking responsibility to edit your manuscript.

A polished manuscript will stand you in good stead when you send it off to an agent, or better yet, if you are taking the self-publishing route.
 
However, though I advocate getting your manuscript professionally edited.



It’s also your responsibility as a writer to edit your manuscript. Doing this serves two purposes: it will save you money when you hire an editor — editors either charge per word or per project — and you are able to check for clarity and fluency of your writing, which reinforces your understanding about the craft of writing.

That said, editing is not only about dotting the Is and crossing the Ts, watch out for overused and extraneous words such as that, and, but, had and other worthless words.

Check that your writing flows; ideas or events are strategically placed; points of views are consistent, the story and events is logical, and plot points are clear.

Don’t get attached to words. Many writers have all their characters use the same words. This can cause them to sound alike. Remember, your characters should have their own unique features. Further, if you have your characters perform the same action, for example, Sammy snickered, Jane snickered, Paul snickered; you risk boring your readers.

What about clichés? Avoid them like the plague (there’s a cliché for you). They do nothing but make your writing uninteresting. Naturally, there are exceptions to rules, so use only if it is meaningful to a character’s distinct persona.

To help you sharpen your editing skills, read, read and read. The more you read, the more you hone an intuitive sense of understanding of such things as rhythm and pace, style and tone, structure and flow etc.

© 2010 Cherry-Ann Carew

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Strange how the creative mind, works. Wasting time is often the best way to spend our time and from quiet times and our relaxed wandering mind, the best creative, results often rise into our concios mind.

I have a very busy day planned today, more than enough to do, including creative pursuits of painting and writing and I was not sure how I was going to fit them all in.  With this in mind, I began to wonder how I was ever going to fulfill my commitment to myself to write a novel in November.

That is right, I have promised to make November my novel writing month. 

This morning I was feeling if I did not have time to fit all of today’s activities into today, I would risk failing at my November goal and I know some serious time management work needed to be done again.  So I began my morning in bed with coffee and  opening up my own diary, news and forums I read, saying good morning to friends and composing the blogs I write as I ‘get into’, my day.


This novel will not be a 'pretty' romance. It will involve a story of atrocities committed on all sides against innocent people. Yet somehow I want the work to be ‘uplifting’, and to have some final message of understanding of the worst of human nature. I want to give a glimpse into why people can do some hideous things to each other and yet we all basically have the same longines for harmony in our lives and those of people we love and a desire to be good people.  

 HOW do I express ‘that’, in WORDS?


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