Through their many bestselling books, Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron have done nothing less than deepen the way millions of us experience the art and practice of writing and creativity. Now for the first time, Julia Cameron and Natalie Goldberg join forces in a revealing dialogue that speaks to our common search for an everyday spirituality, with The Writing Life. Listeners join these two creative giants as they explode cherished misconceptions about who should write, and why they should do it, opening the door to the writer's world for everybody - not just a chosen few. How can writing best be practiced? What is the difference between therapeutic writing and writing for publication? How do we conquer the twin dragons of mood and time? Is it dangerous or inspirational to "dabble" in different arts such as music, painting, and writing? How is addiction related to the writer's life? Goldberg and Cameron examine these and many other questions, while taking us inside their personal lives as committed writers and spiritual seekers. Edgy, surprising, and useful for its hard-won advice, The Writing Life is an invitation to a life-transforming act that requires no more than a pen, some paper, and the will to get started.
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The "Secret of Julia Cameron" may be available on this tape, where she tells how she began writing (short stories) at middle-school age: "I wrote them to woo [a certain party]" -- (I have met that party) -- "I think I just terrified him", Julia concludes. The party of the second part remembers her fine drawings of horses, her memorizing five new words from the dictionary daily, even one of her papers for Science class ("We Shall Have Weather, Whether Or Not"). Whether or not what? he asked and earned her... more info
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I was forunate to initially rent this audiobook on a cross-country trip. I listened to it 5 times in that week. I don't think, "I need to do my morning pages." I hear Ms. Cameron say, "Morning pages are mandatory". I hear the change of inflection when Ms. Goldberg says "Writng Down the Bones". You could read the instruction that finding a safe, functional place to write is a necessity or you can listen to the story about the cafe with the bad coffee and hear from the tones how important this factor was in... more info
Find somebody who loves to write and listen to them!:
"Artists are the antennae of the race." (Ezra Pound).. so quote the authors interviewed on this tape. Both Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron stress that writing is "a form of listening, a conduit that connects you to everything within yourself as well as to everything outside of youself." Therefore, writing is about receptivity. It's not always about the finished product but about the process.
On this two tape set Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron talk about the writing process: What to do with the... more info
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