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A review by mouseyhare
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
4.0
I need to start this with the disclaimer that I "read this wrong", at least partially because I borrowed it from the library, at least partially because I think Ms. Cameron thinks that "Judeo-Christian" is a suitable description of a type of faith... I was initially going to mark it as 3 stars and make some comment that at least I wasn't petty enough to mark it 2 stars because she recommended an author that I hate on a more personal level.
This is more of a 3.5 rounded up this time. I think every chapter individually has a lot of things about it that are good. I think they bleed together a little when blazed through in two days, without doing her morning pages (look... I have done journaling in that style by myself and I found that it never really helped me the way I needed) or really doing her practice.
But I don't think there is one way to do a practice, I don't tend to do well when a practice is like "well there's no true right way to do this... but there is a best way to do this and that's the way I think!"
I could have definitely done without the anorexia analogies, I think I could have done without the emphasis at some points on "creative careers" and the entire recovery analogy also.
Sorry for not reading your book right Ms. Cameron, but at least I'm not entirely a skeptic now, even if I know that your method as a whole is not for me. But I will gladly pick some of it out for myself.
(I did really like painting flats when I was a theater tech in high school, though.)
This is more of a 3.5 rounded up this time. I think every chapter individually has a lot of things about it that are good. I think they bleed together a little when blazed through in two days, without doing her morning pages (look... I have done journaling in that style by myself and I found that it never really helped me the way I needed) or really doing her practice.
But I don't think there is one way to do a practice, I don't tend to do well when a practice is like "well there's no true right way to do this... but there is a best way to do this and that's the way I think!"
I could have definitely done without the anorexia analogies, I think I could have done without the emphasis at some points on "creative careers" and the entire recovery analogy also.
Sorry for not reading your book right Ms. Cameron, but at least I'm not entirely a skeptic now, even if I know that your method as a whole is not for me. But I will gladly pick some of it out for myself.
(I did really like painting flats when I was a theater tech in high school, though.)