walls and creative development

Last night was another wonderful night in class for me.  It’s exciting to find myself connecting to my emotions and having them come out as part of the activities we’re doing in class.  Of course, Sharon (our Friday nights teacher) told us that creatively we all have walls that we have to tear down as part of our creative development.  And that when we tear one down it doesn’t take long for us to discover the next one.  I’m thinking that I’m due a wall at any moment now.

This is okay.  In fact, it’s a good thing.  Tearing down those walls (blocks, obstacles, or whatever you choose to call them) is all part of the creative growth process.  So I say bring it on!  Give me my next wall, or at least some challenge to help me grow.  I think that’s what the scenes are for…

We were originally told we would be doing the scenes for the first time on Tuesday, but last night they told us it would actually be Sunday.  As in tomorrow.  I am so glad that I find memorization easy.

But getting back to last night in class…  I got to work twice because one the attached students (it’s this thing where they are taking the class, but they’re special cause they can’t always be there so they have to either work before class or after class – among other things) asked me to be her partner for the night.  The person she normally works with was not available.  I ended up playing both sides of the activity last night, which was nice because it was the last night for that exercise and with Sharon, who only sees us once a week.  I was strong both times out and was particularly pleased with my emotional journey durning my second time up.  The key will be to bring that level of emotional connection to the scene work we are going to be doing for the next six classes.  I’ll keep you posted.