Eight Breaking Loose Secrets/ Julia Cameron's "The Right to Write"

During my 3-mile walk this morning, I listened to an audio of The Right to Write, written and narrated by Julia Cameron, author of "The Artist's Way" and "The Vein of Gold." 

What an inspirational walk this turned out to be.

The Right to Write (also available in book form) is a series of essays in which Julia "reveals the secrets of breaking loose from the grip of established thought processes and shows you how to unleash the wave of creativity within you that is starving to express itself."

Here are eight out of the many "breaking loose" secrets Julia shares in her essays:

1. Writing is fun.  Yes, fun.  Once you get past the strain and exhaustion of writing out of ego and open the door that connects you to the invisible world of your subconscious and to higher dimensions.
2. Don't make writing so fancy. Allow it to be loose and easy.
3. Tell the truth of how you feel and what you see.  Our words are the bricks and mortars of every dream we want to realize. 
4. Don't let thoughts of getting a publisher, making money, and becoming a best seller stop you.  If you care enough to write it, someone will care enough to read it. 
5. You can always self-publish.  The Artist's Way began as a self-published manuscript.  Henry Miller and Walt Whitman self-published their earlier work. 
6. We are the authors of our own lives. We are all rough drafts. 
7. Commit and the Universe will follow.
8. Let the Universe take care of the quality. You take care of the quantity.

Julia has a way of fingering words like beads and stringing them together in ways that will amaze you.  I can't do justice to how her essays touched and motivated the writer in me. 

Writing is a way to metabolize life, she says, and by the time she is through that's exactly what you'll feel like doing.

As always, thanks for stopping by.