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A thought-provoking study of the creative process by the author of The Artist's Way presents a series of exercises designed to help readers develop a continuing process of renewal that enhances the power to infuse one's art with an informed knowledge of the soul and offers a spiritual path to help readers create the best work of their lives.
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Award-winning writer Julia Cameron is the author of nineteen books, fiction and nonfiction, including The Artist's Way, Walking in This World, The Vein of Gold, and The Right to Write, her bestselling works on the creative process.
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Best known as the coauthor of The Artist's Way, creativity guru Cameron now offers a series of personal essays and exercises about working through creative droughts. She emphasizes the importance of acknowledging artist's blocks as a part of the creative process, but also "soldiering through" by continuing to show up "at the typewriter or the easel." In each essay, she invokes her own struggles to make time for creative work and avoid the traps set by the "inner censor." In "Getting at It," she writes that "[w]aiting for art to be easy, we make it hard. We take our emotional temperature and find ourselves below normal, lacking in resolve.... The truth is that getting at it makes it easier. Every day we write creates a habit of writing in us." In the exercise that follows, Cameron suggests that readers list five ways in which they have inched forward in a given day. Some pieces of advice are likely to resonate more with readers than others-and the author's straightforward message can seem one-note at times. But for novice artists looking for encouragement in an uninspired period, this volume could do the trick.
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Since The Artist's Way (1992), Cameron has become a one-woman industry of aids to creativity, not unlike Martha Stewart guiding us to gracious living. Both adhere to the "do this each and every day" approach, both eagerly dispense prescriptions, and both are, to their respective constituencies, immensely popular. In her last book, Walking in This World (2002), Cameron provided techniques and exercises to help readers connect with the artiste naif within. Building on her precept that "there is room for art in any life we have," Cameron even brings the dark night of the soul--that philosophical/spiritual/religious/artistic crisis of faith that truth seekers and artists from St. John of the Cross to F. Scott Fitzgerald have grappled with for centuries--under her scrutiny. When potential artists face emptiness within, discouragement can all too readily verge on despair, keeping us from finding the strength and courage to create. Cameron's empowering exercises may lead to greater self-knowledge and, perhaps, if practiced regularly and with devotion, even to soul-deep consciousness. Whitney Scott
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