Walking In This World
The Practical Art of Creativity
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- £10.99
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Publisher Description
'The queen of change' The New York Times
Walking in this World is a truly enlightening book in which artist and bestselling author Julia Cameron presents the next step in her life-changing method of discovering and recovering the creative self. Her revolutionary course has inspired generations of artists and creatives including Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss and Reese Witherspoon.
In this remarkable next book, Julia will show you how to build on the lessons learned in The Artist's Way and teach you how to inhabit this world with a sense of renewed creativity. Full of valuable new strategies and techniques for breaking through difficult creative ground, this is a profoundly inspired work by the leading authority on creativity.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Touted as the long-awaited sequel to The Artist's Way, Cameron's latest is so similar in look and format to the original that they could be sold in a boxed set. Previous follow-ups, including The Vein of Gold and The Right to Write and a slew of little spin-offs, here give way to a 12-week course of encouragement and exercises promoted as an intermediate level of The Artist's Way (inviting us to anticipate an advanced volume). At first and for a long way into the book, we encounter the wheel-greasing exercises that worked magic for millions, helping people discover their innate creativity by devising gentle ways around the myriad obstacles that block us (e.g., listing things we would secretly love to do.) Cameron re-introduces the basic tools the daily morning exercise of hand-writing three free-flowing pages and the weekly solitary "artist's date," designed to help us romance our inner artists and she adds the ancient practice of walking as a means of getting in touch with our deeper feelings and truer thoughts (hence the title). "When I can, I walk with friends, noting how companionable our silences become, how effortlessly deep our conversations," Cameron writes. Cameron does indeed capture the feeling of strolling and talking with an old and trusted guide. Her core insights are the same as in earlier volumes, yet her words seem to have grown wiser. She writes about the distractions of success, and about the long solitary stretches "climbing the glass mountain" it takes to bring a large-scale creative project to completion. Her latest book reveals how reaching higher also means going deeper. 10-city author tour.
Customer Reviews
For artists of all kinds and ages
More of the same from JC. So is it boring? Never. She has a way of making each of us feel special, worthy and talented. She is the best creative facilitator I’ve ever come across. Her method has seen me act (something I told myself I could never do), write poetry (for its own sakd, not trying to pretend it migth turn out to be useful song-lyric), learn computer code and also sit in a heap reading if that is what my ‘inner artist’ needs to do. For those who are as old as I am 72 she has written an excellent book about creativity for those in retirement (which let’s face it always comes too early.)