The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living [Paperback]

Julia Cameron (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2009

This new book from the author of the international bestseller The Artist’s Way guides readers through a year of cultivating a deeper connection to their creative selves.

The Artist’s Way has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. Now, for the first time, fans will have a beautifully designed daily companion to the author’s life-changing creative process.

With 365 quotations culled from Julia Cameron’s most vital works on the creative process, this elegant little book can easily be carried along as the reader travels her groundbreaking spiritual path to higher creativity. In her introduction to the book, Cameron reveals the importance of cultivating one’s creativity every day and offers stunning new insights on the relationship between creativity and spirituality.

As the world becomes increasingly challenging to navigate, The Artist’s Way Every Day will serve as a daily reminder of the healing power of creativity to nourish the soul.

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About the Author

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty years. She is the author of twenty-eight books, fiction and nonfiction, including her bestselling works on the creative process: The Artist's Way, Walking in This World, Finding Water, and The Writing Diet. A novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Tarcher; Original edition (October 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585427470
• ISBN-13: 978-1585427475
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty years. She is the author of twenty-eight books, fiction and nonfiction, including her bestselling works on the creative process: The Artist's Way, Walking in This World, Finding Water, and The Writing Diet. A novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television.

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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Artist's Way -- a Minute a Day, November 23, 2009

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This review is from: The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Paperback)

I'd felt creatively flat and had recently returned to the wellspring -- Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way and its twin practices of Morning Pages and Artist Dates. So I was interested to see that Cameron has sliced her material in a new and accessible way in this collection of daily excerpts about the creative process. Might there be magic in her tiny inspirations, ingested every day?

I opened the book to that day's entry, November 14: "So often in a creative career, the magic that is required is quite simply the courage to go on. Singers must sing their scales. Actors must learn their monologues. Writers like myself must spend time at the keys. We would like a break in the weather. We would like a break, period, but the breaks, if they come, will not come today. Today is about keeping on."

Bingo.

A few notes. The excerpts range from a couple of sentences to a full page; most are a paragraph. (I uploaded a photo [under the book's cover image on the main page] to show a representative sample.) Though it's not a journal, there is room to make notes in the generous amount of white space. And to clarify the product description that this "little book can easily be carried along" -- it's a little chunk of a book, 400+ pages and sized between a mass-market and a trade paperback.

Highly recommended to inspire -- and ground :) -- anyone in creative pursuit.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration EVERY Day, February 17, 2010

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This review is from: The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Paperback)

Can't recommend this little daily reading enough. A person with the usual artist's lethargy...I simply agreed with myself to READ it every day. Didn't need to DO anything....just read...

WOW What affirmations awaited me. No I'm not out in the studio painting like a crazy lady...but I AM recovering, one day at a time.

THANKS JULIA!!!

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Julia's Bright and Shining Believing YES Mirror in beautiful daily nuggets, July 23, 2010

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Julia Cameron's heart, wisdom, encouragement and talent continues to know just how to combine safety, connection and encouraging inspiration for me. I love this chunk of a book and count on receiving just the appropriate (loving, welcoming and warm) invitation I love in order to step out and reach a bit further.

I can open ANY page randomly and get the something I need to continue. I do like that it is also a Daily Inspiration.

This book is a lovely gift I have given to others also working the on-and-off journey of their art.

Thank you dear Julia Cameron for your ongoing demonstration of living courage and generous sharing.