Kookamoor
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Has anyone else come across Julia Cameron? She's written a number of very successful books about exploring creativity through journaling. Her most well known is possibly Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity . I stumbled on her books at the library and first read The Right to Write : An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life. These books aren't about helping you with style or form, or putting you on the road to writing your first novel. They're designed to help you explore your life and your creative side.
While I liked the theory, and some of the exercises were fun and did get me out of my writing rut, I was really turned off by the spiritual side of the books. While she never goes as far as to assume that all readers believe in God, she certainly emphasises the role of spirituality (meaning to her, the 'creator') in her view of what is required to explore oneself. For me, this was just a little too preachy.
Any one else read her material and care to comment? Do you know of a similar author who doesn't rely on religion to give journaling and writing ideas to the happy amateur? That is, one who is content to write for themselves, not for publication or comment. ie: I'm not looking for Stephen King's 'On writing' or a book on style.
While I liked the theory, and some of the exercises were fun and did get me out of my writing rut, I was really turned off by the spiritual side of the books. While she never goes as far as to assume that all readers believe in God, she certainly emphasises the role of spirituality (meaning to her, the 'creator') in her view of what is required to explore oneself. For me, this was just a little too preachy.
Any one else read her material and care to comment? Do you know of a similar author who doesn't rely on religion to give journaling and writing ideas to the happy amateur? That is, one who is content to write for themselves, not for publication or comment. ie: I'm not looking for Stephen King's 'On writing' or a book on style.