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

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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.

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!!!

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.

Julia Cameron's Book, The Artist's Way Every Day is a beautifully simple and valuable tool for practicing creatives, embryonic creatives, and people in search of spiritual nutrition. It is practical and brief, yet manages to distill a powerful daily reminder for people who enjoy a wholesome and efficient reminder of who they really are, and where they could be headed, if they choose. Thanks again, Julia Cameron, for midwifing more and more creatives!

I have been working with "The Artist Way" over a month ago. And...it was just what I needed. Very therapeutic, healing, inspiring, amazing.

I love to write and I can't wait to grab my book, sit down, read the message for the day and write from the surface to the deeps of my being.

Fe Bailey

This is a keeper to read and reread. The information can be applied to any art form and also is about living your life as an art form. There are exercises that really cause you to get to know yourself better. I would recommend this book to any one even if you don't consider yourself an "artist".

Thank goodness for Julia Cameron. With everything she's been through and her considerable talent, she continues to mentor and energize creativity in all of us who know of her.

I haven't consulted this book as much as I could. If you haven't read her before, start with The Artist's Way. Inspiration from a process in her book, Finding Water, led me to write "Five Dead Mentors."

If you think life is hard, or she has it easy...she was married to a famous film director...you can read her memoir (not this book) to see what life has truly been like for her. She knows the bottom, as Sylvia Plath might have said, but she also knows how to keep working and walking a path for which many people yearn.

What a wonderful book and so worthwhile. My sister recommended it to me and it's been a blessing. Highly recommend this book.

While I admit, the two stars goes to the every so often moving or inspiring message- most of what I've read has been pretty dull.

By dull I mean like another reviewer, "Nothing new here."

Some of the days are written in first person, which for me, take away more than it adds. It takes me out off of the page and into the head of the author.

It should be noted that this book is not written for the purpose of a devotional- rather it is a collection of quotes from the author's other writing, assigned to days of the year.

This format would overall be better suited for a desktop flip calendar.

In all, like I mentioned, there were a few that are particularly touching and inspiring. Others, either have the opposite effect, or are too shallow/ don't really say anything. Again having to do with it just being a collection of quotes.

I'm glad I found it at a local Target on clearance, though!

I would best describe this as a daily devotional. However, there is little inspiration here, and nothing really original, in stark contast to the book that it piggy-backs.