Every creative person needs a Bliss Station, a special place where you do you work. Joseph Campbell wrote the following in The Power of Myth:
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something will eventually happen.”
I have two bliss stations: my Author Bliss Station where I write my Yale Larsson PI novels, and my Digital Bliss Station where I edit my photographs and create online videos. Both are constantly evolving. The following image is part of my Digital Bliss Station. Notice the votive. I have on at each bliss station. I always light a votive when I begin to work. Yes, I have a creative ritual. More about that in a future post.
Write on,
Doug
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