- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Tarcher (Jan 18 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1585420662
- ISBN-13: 978-1585420667
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.3 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,173,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In creativity guru Julia Cameron's latest offering, the topic is "psychic dreadnaughts." These are people and experiences that attempt to ground your creative flights of fancy by telling you that your concepts are wrong, crazy, half-baked, or downright stupid. This workbook--an aid to Cameron's bestselling book The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity--gives you the weapons to use in pushing past these common roadblocks.
With humorous, clever language and fanciful line drawings, Cameron describes the dreadnaughts you might encounter on your creative journey, from Worrywarts (who try to put a damper on your enthusiasm) to Bad Fairies (who try to bring you down a peg to their level) to Tokyo Roses (who try to make you doubt yourself). She also details the many situations that can bump you off your flight path, such as the Wall (which you're bound to smash into about two-thirds of the way through a project and which tells you your work is so bad you should just abandon it).
As in her previous works, Cameron provides plenty of exercises to get your creative juices flowing and fight off dreadnaughts. And she again advocates "morning writings"--jotting down three pages of longhand musings each day--to clear your head, keep your creative trajectory in mind, and identify potential obstacles and allies.
If you loved The Artist's Way, you'll find this book to be a delightful companion volume, filled with a vast array of creative and spiritual insights. --Nancy Monson
Book Description
With The Artist's Date Book, Julia Cameron and Elizabeth Cameron Evans gave readers an illustrated book of provocative tasks to guide them in the Artists' date. Now, Supplies provides an owner's and driver's manual of spiritual wisdom for the creative drive. Highlighted with illustrations by Elizabeth Cameron Evans and text by Julia Cameron, this is a whimsical, entertaining, and inspiring volume that leads readers toward authentic growth, to renewal, and confidence.
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Supplies: A Pilot's Guide to Creative Flight,
By C. Stephen Foster (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Supplies (Paperback)
This book is required reading for anyone who has used Julia's former books to actually create works of art! In this manual for creative flight she describes all the monsters that leap up in your face as you prepare to fly and the ones that try to wreck your creative projects. She speaks in a no nonsense, humor-filled tone--She cuts to the bone about those devils who tempt us to flirt with them instead of concentrating on our creative careers. Not only does she break them down into horrifying, simple catagories, but she teaches us how we can wave a magic wand and dispell the curse of these people. This book is a true gem for any creative artist. Buy it immediately.
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3.7 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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Supplies: A Pilot's Guide to Creative Flight,
By C. Stephen Foster - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Supplies (Paperback)
This book is required reading for anyone who has used Julia's former books to actually create works of art! In this manual for creative flight she describes all the monsters that leap up in your face as you prepare to fly and the ones that try to wreck your creative projects. She speaks in a no nonsense, humor-filled tone--She cuts to the bone about those devils who tempt us to flirt with them instead of concentrating on our creative careers. Not only does she break them down into horrifying, simple catagories, but she teaches us how we can wave a magic wand and dispell the curse of these people. This book is a true gem for any creative artist. Buy it immediately.
58 of 64 people found the following review helpful
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Cameron's other titles are more useful to you as a writer,
By GreenEggs-N-Ham - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Supplies (Paperback)
Julia Cameron's books are the only companions that keep me from feeling stuck and isolated in a writer's life. "The Artist's Way" and "The Sound of Paper" are fixtures on my bedside table because she's truthful, sensible, and uplifting. ...And that's why I'm disappointed in this book. It falls very short of the mark.True, in its pages you will recognize all those people who hem you in or hold you up. But you will perhaps also recognize what I did: deep bitterness. I'm 3/4 through the book and have been almost stunned at all the examples of, asides about, and ungloved swipes at movie industry people. Other blocking personalities are treated with a bit of remove and wry humor. But when JC launches on the movie-industry-specific examples, her venom and bitterness seep through. That flaw discredits whatever [thin] usefulness I might previously have found. I hate to say this, but I'm glad I bought it used rather than new. 16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Supplies for the Muse,
By M. R. Estante "book reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Supplies (Paperback)
Cameron's latest delight is the latest in blunt and witty guideposts for a creative thriving life. When we live to create it is our muse whose our own best friend. Protect it and nurture it - how? Enter Supplies from Cameron. A concoction of advice, strategies, and common toolkits to keep our artistic souls pure and our muse shielded from the various Crazymakers out there. Must have!
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