Julia Cameron

I Shall Be Telling This With A Sigh

May 5, 2011

People need people. Artists need an audience. Sometimes even the whispered possibility of an audience.

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Quality/Quantity

January 23, 2011
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I distinctly recall reading something in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way about concentrating on the quantity and leaving the ‘quality’ to God. Well today I’ve been doing that. The quality is fairly uninspiring but there’s something nice – even comforting – about about just churning things out and seeing what happens. And it gives me an opportunity to real play with my materials.

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Fear Of Abandoment

January 13, 2011

“Fear is the true name for what ails the blocked artist. It may be fear of failure or fear of success. Most frequently, it is fear of abandonment.”

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Creative Bribes

November 30, 2010
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In The Right To Write Julia Cameron describes them as ‘cheap tricks.’

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Clarity Through Creation

July 16, 2010

I feel like I’ve reverted as a human being. I thought I had accepted something about myself but in truth I just resigned myself to it. There seemed to be something fundamentally inescapable about it. Certainly I didn’t feel good about it.

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Cleaning Up, Clearing Out

June 22, 2010
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Today I am cleaning up. I am taking stock – in the most literal sense. I’ve concluded I have enough stationery supplies to last several lifetimes. I’ll have to reign myself in the next time I swing by OfficeWorks…

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Julia Cameron on ‘Real’ Writers

June 8, 2010

Earlier this week my Amazon shipment arrived including The Right To Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into The Writing Life by Julia Cameron. I haven’t had a chance to delve deeply into the book, however I wanted to share an extract here since it follows on so nicely from this week’s Creative Concepts podcast.

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The Things We Don’t Mention

May 24, 2010
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The things you don’t acknowledge tend to make you crazy, even outside of artistic endeavours. They seem to linger somewhere in the back of your psyche growing ever louder the more you pretend they don’t exist.

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