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Summary: Doesn't Work For Me
Review: Although this is a well written book that has helped many people who are blocked creatively, I couldn't get past a pivotal hurdle. This is that each day you have to write extensive journal pages called "Morning Pages." I tried getting on listservs to get myself motivated to make it through but I discovered that other people had the same problem I did doing those pages. However, these materials were really intended for those experiencing total creative block which I was not experiencing at the time I tried it. A friend, who was experiencing creative block, found this book much more useful than I did. If you are actually experiencing a creative block in any creative activity, you may want to try this book and/or take the accompanying course work which goes with it. This book also can be used for writers with creative block, which the title does not make clear.
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Summary: A Life Changing Book
Review: I loved reading and working through the exercises in this book. I have found the insights and exercises priceless. I had been suffering from creative blocks, but had no clue that I had them or what they were. I was given this book by my mother long before I was ready to begin working through my blocks. An act that in hindsight confirms that God was working to help me before I knew I needed help. I picked up the book as a skeptic but was quickly converted by the amazing way that the truth in this book resonated for me. With this book, I was able to explore and knock down my creative blocks. I have recently begun my journey follow my dreams largely due to the self-realization exercises and encouragement in this book. While I will agree with other readers that this book does require a huge time committment, I believe it is time well spent.
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Summary: Time-Consuming
Review: I was initially inspired and as excited as all the other reviewers below, and even found that my creative juices were flowing once again. Unfortunately, it just took up too much of my time. The morning pages alone usually took me almost an hour to write (maybe I needed a larger ruled notebook?) It's all great if you're a professional freelance writer, but tougher if you're in the more likely situation of needing to hold down your 9-5 (or 9-7). I found that the exercises cut into the already sparse time I had left in my week to concentrate on my music. My morning pages were full of discovery, but I had little time left to take care of my art or my body (even Ms. Cameron advises to stay healthy). It's all wonderful stuff, but just doesn't take real world time constraints into account. Be ready for that.
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Summary: This book changed my life!
Review: I adore this book! It is more than a book, actually, since it is also a class -- one in which the reader can read a chapter each week, do the exercises at the end of the chapter as time permits, and contemplate the profound insights that follow. My neighbor loaned me this book at a time when I needed to take a class in writing. I couldn't have done any better than to start with Julia Cameron's jewel of a book! As a result of reading this book, I wrote a book and several magazine articles -- and created a web site devoted to my passion for learning how we shift reality. There is indeed an art to becoming an artist, and there are ways to enhance one's ability to give and receive inspiration. Thank you, Julia Cameron, for so graciously sharing these priceless insights with us!
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Summary: A must for the creatively blocked!
Review: I purchased this book at the suggestion of my acting teacher a few weeks ago. I was both pleasantly suprised and comforted by seeing my artistic fears addressed on the pages. I felt a kinship with the author almost immediately. I had trouble doing the morning pages at first, but when I read through them now, I feel a tremendous insight into where I was at that time from an emotional standpoint. If you feel like you have reached a creative plateau in your life, give yourself the gift of this book.
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Summary: BRILLIANT Book for Re-discovering and Re-covering ME!
Review: I first heard about this book 6 months ago, then again 2 months ago (synchronicity!). Both times I'd gotten to a point in my life where I was asking the question, "There is much more to me than who I am now but WHAT? " This book has quite changed my life. Today I know what my fears/blocks are. Where they stem from. HOW TO WORK WITH THEM and HOW TO FREE MYSELF FROM THEM. Today, I have the freedom to be Anita the person as well as wife,mother, sister and daughter. I found the Morning pages, Artists Dates and Tasks liberating to do. When one week is busier than others, I "extend" my week to complete my Tasks at my own pace. If you're looking for "YOU" then this is the place to start! I hope you have as much fun as I am.... My thanks to Ms. Cameron for having the courage to write this INCREDIBLE book!
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Summary: If you're Ready, This Book is for You
Review: Finding yourself lost in the world, lacking once existent ambition? Ready to try something miraculous? Try this book. This book has helped me regain focus and direction in a way that I didn't think was possible by reading a book and doing some journal entries! The morning pages are vital to the process. DO THEM! They become your best friend and in the end, you can't go on without them. It addictive self-therapy & self-empowerment like I've never known! The book itself marks your progress in an uncanny way. The author KNOWS where you're at in the process each week and is right by your side speaking to your "evolving self". If you're ready to move on in your life, get this book, AND a JOURNAL!
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Summary: A MUST for every person seeking Artistic Redemption
Review: This book brings amazing results once you begin to do the work inside. It creates a level of satisfaction rarely felt in most so-called "self help" books. It takes you on your own journey through the twist and turns of your everyday life, ending in finding out that you are the artist you always secretly wondered you were.
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Summary: Insipirational
Review: If you are remotely artistic and only buy one book in your lifetime it should be this one!
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Summary: How to achieve creative inner serenity!
Review: This book has become an invaluable tool for myself as well as others I have recommended it to. Julia Cameron (the author) reminds us that being creative, imaginative, and playful are vital to one's inner child. In this day and age of high speed business and warp technology, she gives you the tools you need to keep a little piece of imaginative heaven with you at all times. If you are an artist, this is your bible. If you have a creative spirit, this is your daily planner. If you are a strait laced business
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