The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (1992)

This was the book that got me into writing. ( )

*29/12. Yay it arrived - Heathrow must be un-snowed (not a word I know).
Happy Birthday to me. Now just waiting for "The Importance of being Iceland" to arrive - seems they packaged the order separately.

Just bought it on The Book Depository UK. free shipping to Australia and cheaper than anywhere

A few of my photography & artistic friends have read this with good reviews saying it helped get them out of creative slumps. Kind of curious about it now. another one to put on my wish list.

About half useful, one-quarter unutterable fluff, and one-quarter actively hurtful Positive Thinking crap. The useful is seriously useful, though, and I have taken copious notes.

(I read this because I've been doing morning pages for years. I see now why this is the only element of her process that has really been mainstreamed.) ( )

I bought this book as a textbook for a creative writing class I am taking, and I can't say how helpful it has been. I was a little nervous about the whole spiritual bit at the beginning, but the author isn't using her book to shove any particular religion down anyone's throat.
I found the Morning Pages exercise immensely helpful for clearing my mind and getting my day off to a good start, and the first chapter of the book helped me to realize that the biggest hindrance to my own creativity was me.
I am loving this book, and I highly recommend it to anybody who is struggling to develop his or her creative side. ( )

Asserting that creative expression is the natural direction of life, noted Hollywood screenwriter and director Julia Cameron presents an exciting method for artists to recover their creativity from limiting beliefs, self-sabotage, inattention, fear, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other forces that inhibit the creative process.