About this episode
This episode explores the conflict between Julia Cameron's writing craft advice and individual creative processes.
Should you use anger to fuel your writing? Do you experience shame while creating art? Have you been keeping up with your artist pages? Week 3 of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way poses these questions with clear answers in mind—but we're not convinced. In this episode, we dig into what happens when a wildly successful writing craft book conflicts with your actual creative process, and what's still valuable even when you fundamentally disagree. Remember, we have a Writers Process meetup every ...
Topics covered
- anger in writing
- creative process
- shame in art
- The Artist's Way
- writing craft
- artist pages
Keywords
- anger
- shame
- writing
- creative process
- The Artist's Way
- art
- artist pages
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