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Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Aspiring Writers, Artists, Filmmakers, Musicians and Others (Paperback)

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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins (30 Sep 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0060952431
ISBN-13: 978-0060952433
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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I'm interested in hearing from readers about their experiences with my book. Have you begun a new job, a new art project, a new life? Please e-mail me with your stories. I'm also looking for people interested in teaching workshops across the US. I have been getting a lot of queries outside the Bay Area and I can't possibly travel that much. If you're interested please send me an e-mail outlining your experience and your interest. Thank you and may the career muse descend on you.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Impressive mix of practicality, humour and inspiration, 8 Jun 2007

By	Mary McNeil (Cumbria, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Billed as 'A practical course in career design for artists, innovators, and others aspiring to a creative life', there's a clear message right from the start that creativity can take a vast number of different forms. Simply assigning someone the label of 'creative' is a serious generalisation. Your version of creativity might be making art, teaching, generating ideas, inventing objects, interpreting music..... and Carol Lloyd is most helpful in encouraging you to understand your own unique brand of creativity.

The book begins with a section somewhat similar to Julia Cameron's Artist's Way programme - a process of search and research through your childhood desires, your timeless inclinations and present needs. From there it goes considerably further into the dreaming, planning and design stages for a new way of living. And on into the development of a down-to-earth action plan for your day-to-day life.

There's a chapter on the various kinds of day jobs which can support or undermine your long-term creative goals. Another on how to deal with indecision and competing interests. And one that asks you to analyze your current lifestyle and build a new model for your everyday creative process.

As a self-coaching tool this book is superb. I have learned much from it to enhance the life/creativity coaching that I do. So if you want to redesign your life in a way that will support and inspire your creativity, this is the one for you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Artist's Way, 6 Jun 2007

By	Harman Hay (Nottingham , UK) - See all my reviews

This is the book that Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way should have been - for me. I found the latter helpful only in that it was a wistful stroll through What It's Like To Be An Artist, complete with a level of tenuous, airy-fairy metaphor that just became annoying. In contrast, Lloyd's book is down-to-earth and useful. Thank Elvis, this book actually gave me the practical details I need to build a life around my costume art.

Unlike the obligation to write, write, write displayed in Cameron's writer-biased exercises, Creating A Life Worth Living gives a series of options appealing to all kinds of artists. Exercises can be completed by a whole range of methods geared towards the visual artist as well as the logical, listmaking type, the spacial thinker and so on. The reader is encouraged to pick the method that appeals. And that summarises the whole feel of the book; it allows you to be one of a diverse range of creative types, or a hybrid of more than one, leaving the reader feeling freer and more validated. Whilst reading The Artist's Way I felt that I was walking a line, trying to keep up and stay with the program, this book was a much more expansive exploration - a romp through fields rather than a straight and narrow written path. And I dare say that even the writer would be well served by this more open approach.

Chapters are readable and fun, rather than the poetic treacle one must wade through in Cameron's book. They are relevant to our experience, giving us a practical framework within which to plan a career or a project and then build it from foundations to roof. The author uncannily reads back to us our own experience, making the reader wonder whether CCTV has been installed in one's house. Most fascinating and valuable of all are the interviews with successful artists, spread through the book, that ask all the questions you really want to know about - do you work from 9 till 5, or through the night? What does a day involve? Was success a struggle and then a big break for you, or something else? Do you trick yourself into working when you don't want to, or do you let it go and take a day off?

If you've read The Artist's Way in the hope of finding a real, treadable path through the life of an artist and were disappointed, I would say most emphatically that this is the book for you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastically useful for anyone who thinks creatively, 6 Sep 2001

By	Kirsty Hall "kmhlamia" (Bristol, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As an artist, I've found this book invaluable in helping me redefine my practise. It tackles nitty gritty subjects such as how to make a living whilst you're becoming established as an artist (actor/dancer/writer/inventor etc) as well as delving into the more mysterious areas of how and why we actually create. A really useful (and funny!) resource which should be on every bohemian Christmas list this year.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The quotes and interviews alone are worth the price:
Carol tells us "I discovered . . . . that I instinctively knew how to help [creative people]clarify what they wanted, navigate the vague terrain between vision and real life,... Read more

Published on 3 May 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lifesaver.
This is a book for anyone looking for focus. It keeps you grounded while letting your imagination soar. It's what you need. Trust me.

Published on 24 Oct 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, exciting, ......for everyone.....really
I came across this in a book store on Long Island while I was looking for a Course in Miracles. The title and cover art caught my eye and I was so excited by it that I bought 3... Read more

Published on 21 Oct 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, exciting, ......for everyone.....really
I came across this in the book store while I was looking for a Course in Miracles. The title and cover art caught my eye and I was so excited by it that I bought 3 copies. Read more

Published on 21 Oct 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars n.b. This book featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation 10/9/97.
This book and it's author were featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation broadcast 10/09/97. "Tapes and transcripts are available. Read more

Published on 10 Oct 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars It sounds like a cliche to say "this book changed my life,"
but the fact is that it did. Creating a Life Worth Living is a well thought-out, step-by-step manual that leads you to question your values, skills, goals and desires. Read more

Published on 22 Aug 1997

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