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Summary: Jump start your writing
Review: I have been using this book with an online group at MysticInk.com. Julia's relaxed, supportive words about the process of writing and our feelings about what we write are not only encouraging they will change the way you approach your own writing. THe excercises at the end of each short chapter will also help you to put each lesson into practice. I highly recommend this book for writers and those who want to write.
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Summary: Profoundly poetic passages into the writer's inner soul
Review: Whether you're a writer or a wannabe, Julia Cameron's wonderful insights will inspire and enlighten you. And help you along the way in your life's journey to create. Like many of her books, it will give you the encouragement to celebrate who you are, a unique and creative being, and to write for yourself. Don't worry about the commercial business of writing and marketing. Be true to yourself as you create and, Cameron assures us, your auidence will come. This is a beautifully-written book and it has profound insights about life, writing and our sacred callings. I was very much touched by the author's understanding of why it is we write. Cameron focuses in on those golden moments of life, many of them the "little" things we might take for granted, then goes deep inside to probe the meaning and purpose. Writing brings out your soul's connection to the universe, and it enriches you in a way nothing else can. Creativity is the divine spark we get from our heavenly Creator, and the act of writing is shown to be the sacred way we get in touch with our innermost feelings. Cameron is like a wise and loving angel showing us why we need to disconnect from our hurried, harried modern lifestyles and to go apart and write. Ignore your critics' voices, whether they are in the form of an inner, nagging thought or another person belittling your writing. Keep a morning journal of your own personal story. Not only do we have the right to write, Cameron admonishes, we have the duty. It brings out our humanity; it enriches our everyday lives. Every page has a pithy quote of wisdom and insight. Cameron is an artist and a genius. Her descriptions are outstanding. She embraces life and the inner spark of creativity that too often is left untended. We all are writers, Cameron says, and we all must write. Cameron's prose is profoundly poetic. You will read, and re-read, her chapters again and again. And call yourself a writer.
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Summary: Back on track
Review: I really enjoyed this book. After checking it out at my local library, I found that I needed my own copy so that I could make my own notes in the margins. This book awakened in me a love for writing that had been stiffled for several years (just normal everyday life). I am sure that not everyone will go "A-HA" but that light-bulb type experience is just what happened to me. I am motivated in ways that I didn't think possible. Even if you never work toward publishing a thing, I believe that the "Right to Write" opens your eyes to setting forth on paper what is in your heart. Thank you, Julia.
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Summary: Motivation if you need it, whether you're a "writer" or not
Review: Cameron obviously intends with this book to offer motivation for writers, would-be writers, and, interestingly, everyone else too, since she firmly believes that EVERYONE is a writer at heart and everyone SHOULD write. I don't think everyone should be a writer any more than everyone should be a dog trainer (it has nothing to do with talent, by the way, and everything to do with doing what you LIKE). Once you get past that premise, is her advice for freeing up your writing useful? What she terms "initiation" tools include freewriting, positive affirmations, writing postcards to five friends in 15 minutes, listing 50 things that make you happy or 100 things you love, and so on. Though, clearly, such tools are most helpful to writers who aren't flooded by ideas from morning 'til night, it's possible that if you're feeling stymied by your current project, one of Cameron's exercises might unrust your creative gears and help you enter flow (though the novelists and poets I interviewed for my own bestselling WRITING IN FLOW almost never use such prompts themselves, they admit they give them to their students -- so if you're new at this, do whatever works). (But don't limit yourself to listing "things I love." How about "things that make me want to strangle someone"?)
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK
Review: When alone...driving,walking,lying awake at night, is there a part of you that begins to come alive with stories to tell, characters stirring, yearning to be born...and then "real life" smacks you up beside the head and you abandon these desires feeling that part of you fade away? If you answered "YES"...you need this book. Those characters gestating inside you will thank you and love you forever.
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Summary: We each have our own right to write.
Review: This book helped to get me back on track with writing and the artist within me. I started a writing course in 1993 through the LongRidge Writers group. I paid nearly a thousand dollars to have a proven author criticize the punctuation and characterization methods of my writing. In the Right to Write, for less than $15.00 I learned that we each have an inherent right to write, to be artists. Julia Cameron has become my latest teacher. Her books, The Right to Write, The Artist's Way, and the Vein of Gold, have given me courage and Morning Pages have begun to awaken the writer and Artist Child in me. Thank you Julia Cameron.
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Summary: Inspiration--and great gossip
Review: Until I read The Right to Write, I preferred to read about writing rather than actually do it. This book has become an inspiring friend -- Julia Cameron knows how to encourage the timid and soothe the perfectionist procrastinator. It works for me. And I'm almost embarrassed to add how much I love the personal information and teasers that Ms. Cameron adds to her essays -- the way she felt when her marriage to Scorsese ended due to his affair, and later marriage, to her former best friend, her discussion of moving away from a professional collaboration that no longer seems like the right fit. Does she mean Mark Bryan? Tim Wheater? Which of the two Davids that she cites in the acknowledgment is the one who faxed her constantly from Europe? And will they still be together by her next book? Who was the nasty Great Writer at her dinner party? It's great stuff and I love it all. Do not miss this book.
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Summary: Essential
Review: If you want to know where to send what you write, buy Writers' Market. Go to seminars and workshops that editors attend. If you need an agent, go to the Literary Marketplace. But if you want to know about the spirit that moves writers to write, then buy this book and be grateful that Julia Cameron knows how to pass on her wisdom.
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Summary: A feel-good book
Review: If you're the kind of writer who needs someone to hold your hand and give you "permission" to write then this book is fine. But after you have "permission" and you're sitting there waiting to write something someone will want to read, then read authors Marcia Yudkin and Donna Elizabeth Boetig. They provide both inspiration and information. Not only will you have "permission" to write but you'll know what to write and where to publish. These last two authors were the best I've ever read in the writing genre.
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Summary: Julia encourages freedom and sanity at the same time.
Review: After I decided to commit to the writing life I found Ms. Cameron's book. I wasn't sure it was what I wanted because I believed I needed some more practical, concrete advice than she at first appeared to give. Thank goodness I bought the book anyway. I appreciate tremendously the fact that she encourages us to write, write, write no matter what, and to totally trust ourselves in the process. I have always been something of a rebel, wanting to do things my own way even if nobody else was doing it that way. It takes a book like this to allow people to be their truest individual selves and to learn the most important lesson in writing and in life itself. We are valuable just as we are, and we can be successful with that because we trust that whoever we are is just right. No, she doesn't go into detail with how-to's which have served to intimidate and squelch some genius talents. She opens the door to find our own inner genius, and to let it out fearlessly. Thanks, Julia, for the reminder.
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