Letters To A Young Artist

An essential companion on the path to discovering our creative potential mapped out in Julia Cameron's bestselling 'Walking in This World' and 'The Artist's Way'

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty years. She is the author of twenty-four books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Artist's Way, Walking in this World, The Vein of Gold and The Right to Write. A novelist, playwright, songwriter and poet, she has extensive credits in theatre, film and television.

Written in the form of letters to an aspiring artist, 'Letters to a Young Artist' includes Julia Cameron's hints on how to become an artist and encourage the creative flow.  Full of exercises - she suggests, for example, writing 14 pages on anything every morning - and advice on an artist's approach to many aspects of life, including work and play, rest and exercise, adventure and security, relationships and sex, personal appearance.  There are inspiring ideas on what to write about and invaluable encouragement in dealing with creative blocks and temporary failure.

The Practical Art of Creativity

Walking In This World

Walking in this World picks up where the international bestseller The Artist's Way left off, highlighting an amazing journey towards discovering our creative potential

'The queen of change' The New York Times 
 
Walking in this World is a truly enlightening book in which artist and bestselling author Julia Cameron presents the next step in her life-changing method of discovering and recovering the creative self. Her revolutionary course has inspired generations of artists and creatives including Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss and Reese Witherspoon. 
 
In this remarkable next book, Julia will show you how to build on the lessons learned in The Artist's Way and teach you how to inhabit this world with a sense of renewed creativity. Full of valuable new strategies and techniques for breaking through difficult creative ground, this is a profoundly inspired work by the leading authority on creativity.

Julia Cameron

Inspiration and Practical Guidance for Starting the Creative Process

'Lately, I am trying to provoke myself into art - into writing... I wasn't exactly in despair - I was in cynicism, which is despair's more torpid sister... Let me tell you how writing snuck back on me.' 
 
Whether you are starting from scratch or need a gentle nudge back in the right direction, The Sound of Paper is a wonderful creative companion. Through inspiring essays and practical tasks, it stimulates creativity so that the reader becomes more and more familiar with their own strengths. Including her own fascinating journey from writer's block back to productive work, which takes the reader across America from New York to New Mexico, this is a story of inspiration infused with brilliantly practical suggestions, the perfect combination for anyone on the path to creativity.

Julia Cameron

Books by Julia Cameron

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