A Friday Re-Find

It’s been 20 years since The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron was first published.  Almost 4 million copies have been sold.  (I bought at least 5 of them myself.  They make great gifts!) So, it seems like most of the readers of this blog will have, at least, heard of it.

It’s worth reminding you about it, however.

Of all the self-help books I’ve read in my life–and I have read a few!–The Artist’s Way is the most transformative.  You are reading this blog because of Julia Cameron–(and because of my good friend Hope Nunnery ,who first gave me a copy of Ms. Cameron’s book).

Hope and I embarked on the odyssey of the 12 week workshop outlined in The Artist’s Way with the idea that it might improve our acting skills and help us with some of the things we felt were holding us back in our acting careers.

Hope is now a recording artist with a fabulous and critically-acclaimed CD to her credit, and I have a completed novel, a sheaf of short stories, and an award-winning full-length play.

I can’t speak for Hope, but that is not what I expected when I began doing my morning pages and going on my artist dates.  But it has been a wild and fulfilling journey.

I get lazy sometimes.  I forget to do the morning pages, or I lose confidence in them.  What constantly astonishes me, however, is that every time I go back to that practice, I also regain forward motion in creativity and in the practical aspects of getting the work out into the world.

So, I suggest–if you haven’t already read/done The Artist’s Way–give it a try.  It’s a book designed to be used as a 12 week workshop.  You can do anything for 12 weeks.  Go to JuliaCameronLive.com, and get an overview.

If you’ve done it and forgotten about it, dig out your copy.  Refresh your memory.  Do those morning pages, and see what happens.

You could be amazed!