Bob's Write from the Start: Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path To Higher Creativity

Bob's Write from the Start

Bob’s Write from the Start, a blog sharing the roller coaster ride of this renewing writer’s feelings and actual experiences, began March 2017. That January, I began with a two-sentence contribution to a local Writing Group. I am now a Guest Columnist for a local paper and have contributed to small and online magazines. My comments for new and renewing writers? Start by starting. Join a writing group. You are unique but not alone. Once you start work, you will not be in Kansas anymore.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path To Higher Creativity

This book, written by Julia Cameron in 2002 and still going strong, has found a place on my "Recommended for New and Renewing Writers" list. It took me a while to place it there and its inclusion does worry me somewhat.

I'm one of the last people to emerge enthusiastic about the general notion of 'writing is the universe flowing through your fingers.' And, even more so, with another hat on, I have had to endure the overwhelming popularity of people like Napoleon Hill -- Think and Grow Rich -- who had gas station supervisors buying new suits to represent the success that surely awaited them just around the corner. Personally, I am more of the Thoreau bias: "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

Still, the book was recommended to me by a fellow writer whom I admire, had begun to follow its specific daily program, and reported increased liberating creative results from doing so.

So, I'm reading the book. And, while I have not followed the daily program (others have wagged their finger at me for this felony), I have noted a number of things that have lifted my spirit and exorcised certain devils.

Sometimes, it's as though Julia Cameron is talking right to me.

So, I place it on my list of Recommend's.

1 Comments:

At April 29, 2020 at 7:44 AM , Don Herald said...: As a general life rule, I don't go near anything that has yellow tape around it.

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Name: Bob's Write From The Start

Location: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Born, raised and living in Sarnia, Ontario, Bob Boulton began writing poetry, short stories and humorous articles for his high school newspaper in the period just after dinosaurs roamed the earth. His article on the mysteries of the Chess Club was particularly well-received. Bob’s excruciatingly naive teenage sonnet was published with positive mention in the high school yearbook. In University he wrote pretty much indecipherable essays on Existentialism and Phenomenology. Then, early in his working career, Bob also wrote short feature articles in the now-defunct (not his fault) Weston York Times. For this, he was paid $5.00 per article, which didn’t quite cover his transportation and parking costs. Then after a short break of thirty-five or forty years as an executive and leadership coach, Bob reactivated his passion for writing. The alternatives he considered were learning to yodel or trying to play the bagpipes. Bob’s loving and supportive family voted enthusiastically, and quickly, for writing.