The write way
Writing guru Julia Cameron shares exclusive advice and inspiration with Writing Magazine readers
Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, has spent three decades providing inspiration and advice on cultivating creativity. The cornerstones of her advice on awakening creativity are writing daily Morning Pages, and going on Artist Dates, where you visit somewhere out of the ordinary, alone, with the specific intention of seeking pleasure and imaginative inspiration. In The Right to Write, now published in a new edition, Julia looks specifically at issues affecting writers and how to make your writing a natural, joyful part of your life. Here, she shares some principles for writers looking to be as productive, creative, and as happy in their writing as can be.
Writing is a vocation.
We sometimes think, ‘I can only write one thing.’
Pages flings the door open so people can write may things.
Writing is easy.
I think we have a methodology that says writing is difficult. It’s easy, just fling the door open and listen to what wants to come through.
Abandon the rules.
Write from the heart. Your writing will typically become better. Juicier. I was given good advice by a man who edited Playboy –The said, put in everything. If I put in the details I’d normally censor, it becomes livelier – more engaging.