#Reverb11: Doors and Windows Open When We Agree to Be a Beginner

I saw this prompt and I simply HAD to write it. How would you respond?

What was something you were a beginner at this year? Were you kinder with yourself because you were a beginner? If you let yourself be a beginner, what would you learn to do in the next year? The prompt comes via the Don't Be a Picklebump blog. Check it out!

The first beginning that popped into my head was more like an evolution.

I have been involved in the arts for a long time. Visual Art has always felt like a tangential thing: I am a Poet who Acts who Directs who takes photos and dabbles in collage.

I didn’t know it at the time, but as Depression began its descent, I suddenly understood what it meant to have a body of work as an artist. I worked on a series of pieces specifically for an Art Show that raised funds for RAINN called “Silent All These Years.”

It was like a door opened. All of a sudden I understood the importance of content amidst what I was creating.

I sort of got it before but now I knew it in my blood.

A door (or a window) opened.

I was then invited to be a part of an all woman’s show, an off-shoot (sort of) of Burn the Witch, the first Art Show I participated in as anything other than a performer in 2007. Through this I began work on my “Women’s Sphere?” project I am still working with now and may have a solo show in March ~ which inspires me to continue though I probably would even if there was never a deadline or a “What’s coming up next.

As for 2012, I have been an epublisher since 1999. I had a website and ezines years before there were blogs. Now I want to be a beginner in publishing expansion. I want to publish old-fashioned books and Kindle style ebooks. I have a series of books in the works as well as several poetry collections. I hope to publish other people as well. It is in my bloodstream. My first career was in publishing when I was out of college. It is like a re-birth, which has, indeed, become part of my theme for the coming months.

I am inspired and look forward to report in 2012 about my publishing progress.

 

I am Julie Jordan Scott ~ and this is one of my Reverb11 posts. This year, the Reverb Community is taking an individualized approach to this life changing initiative. I am answering several prompts a day in short snippets during either a 30 minute or 60 minute wordsprint. I look forward to reading other Reverb11ers writing & if you are unfamiliar, just use the prompt and use the #reverb11 hashtag on twitter. You'll have a blast!

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