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Twyla Tharp, #4 — the working environment

In Chapter 2, Tharp talks about the importance of establishing rituals that get you in the right frame of mind for creating. Her way is to go work out at the gym for two hours at 7 a.m. Needless to say, that is not my way…sigh! Thomas Mann donned a coat and tie and sat down to write until he had completed a predetermined length of writing. Tharp says:

“To get the creative habit, you need a working environmnet that’s habit forming.” p.17

This is exactly what Virginia Woolf mean when she wrote A Room of One’s Own. You need a place to go and create. Tharp also wrote:

“The other obstacle to good work, as harmful as one’s fears, is distractions.” p. 25

Hmmm…you mean like e-mail and blogs? Sometimes, though, I think you need to decompress and socialize, so here we are!

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