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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Julia Cameron says we are creative but we so often say not. The Artist's Way, her first book, kicked this excuse in to touch with its guide to defeating inner demons and rewarding creative angels. In a nutshell, write a morning journal on anything for three pages to ambush your inner critic and go out alone weekly to any artistic event to refresh your imagination. It works...honest! An Art Exhibition got me thinking about writing in these ways.
* A picture with images falling out and in...so why not a story of characters and events that fall in and out of the main plot
* Victorian prints mixed with photographic images and unnaturalistic stencils combine to create eerie and disturbing images... so create a story by taking a random handful of images cut from magazines as a starting point
* Pictures of ordinary objects made macabre... have images in the story at odds with the readers expectation, make the corpse of a women erotic, the murder comedic
Don't get it? Then read How to Avoid Making Art (or Anything Else You Enjoy) which attacks those inner demons with witty cartoons. Recognize any of these...
#Read all the forwarded emails from your friends instead of writing your novel
#Choose someone feels their dreams and goals are more important then yours
#Understand no circumstances make any art just for fun
Play and creativity follows is what she wants you to accept. Writing or painting class are still needed to learn the tricks of the trade but your imagination is already waiting to burst out.
* A picture with images falling out and in...so why not a story of characters and events that fall in and out of the main plot
* Victorian prints mixed with photographic images and unnaturalistic stencils combine to create eerie and disturbing images... so create a story by taking a random handful of images cut from magazines as a starting point
* Pictures of ordinary objects made macabre... have images in the story at odds with the readers expectation, make the corpse of a women erotic, the murder comedic
Don't get it? Then read How to Avoid Making Art (or Anything Else You Enjoy) which attacks those inner demons with witty cartoons. Recognize any of these...
#Read all the forwarded emails from your friends instead of writing your novel
#Choose someone feels their dreams and goals are more important then yours
#Understand no circumstances make any art just for fun
Play and creativity follows is what she wants you to accept. Writing or painting class are still needed to learn the tricks of the trade but your imagination is already waiting to burst out.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Love Julia's work but this isn't what I was expecting. Basically a book of cartoons. Not my style. I suppose a few might produce a wry smile about the excuses we all make for not creating but if, like me, you were looking to read one of Cameron's excellent teaching or inspirational books, this shouldn't be your first choice!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
What NOT To Do!
7 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
As a published writer/poet, I find that sometimes I get bogged down with the mundane: paying bills, worrying about my job, in short: procrastination. When I finally turned on my computer to work on my manuscript, I found my mind wandering in all directions except on my story. So, I turned it off and did something else.
However, after reading Ms. Cameron's The Artist's Way, I have changed my life completely and for the better. I still give some of my time to the mundane, but I also work on my writing as soon as I think about it, thereby allowing my mind to work on it when the thought is fresh.
How To Not Make Art is a delightful book I found recently and I think will become part of my purse/backpack necessities along with my blank journals and book I am reading for the day. This book offers the "swift kick" for anyone who find themselves allowing other matters or people to crowd out their creative side. Situations like this are too easy to slide into and slightly harder to get out of. But, with patience and fortitude, the wall can be broken and the creative will flow again.
If you find yourself bogged down and not able to do anything creative, pick up this book and read it through, giving each cartoon their time to absorb. I found myself nodding in agreement with many of them, knowing them to be too true.
Highly recommended!
However, after reading Ms. Cameron's The Artist's Way, I have changed my life completely and for the better. I still give some of my time to the mundane, but I also work on my writing as soon as I think about it, thereby allowing my mind to work on it when the thought is fresh.
How To Not Make Art is a delightful book I found recently and I think will become part of my purse/backpack necessities along with my blank journals and book I am reading for the day. This book offers the "swift kick" for anyone who find themselves allowing other matters or people to crowd out their creative side. Situations like this are too easy to slide into and slightly harder to get out of. But, with patience and fortitude, the wall can be broken and the creative will flow again.
If you find yourself bogged down and not able to do anything creative, pick up this book and read it through, giving each cartoon their time to absorb. I found myself nodding in agreement with many of them, knowing them to be too true.
Highly recommended!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Funny and simple reasons why we sometimes don't create
20 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a book of cartoons with captions that are the myriad excuses for why we
sometimes put off our creative work. Funny and useful. Another GREAT one by
her that's serious is The Right to Write.
sometimes put off our creative work. Funny and useful. Another GREAT one by
her that's serious is The Right to Write.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This is what I'm doing when I should be painting
11 Nov 2006
Format:Paperback
This book spoke to me; as a writer and artist, I can talk myself out of creating, and this book confronts the reader with all the excuses. The whimsical drawings and insightful remarks inspire me to go to my studio and make art. I pick it up any time self-doubt surfaces, and I plan to buy copies for my friends who write and paint.
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