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'''The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life''', by [[Julia Cameron]] is a non-fiction book about unleashing the creative process within- to let it come more natural and carefree to make for a more fulfilling life. She shows us that writing can be a spiritual experience that can help heal you and take away all the things blocking you from your writing flow without the act of force.
'''The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life''', by [[Julia Cameron]] is a non-fiction book about unleashing the creative process within- to let it come more natural and carefree to make for a more fulfilling life. She claims that writing can be a spiritual experience that can help heal you and take away all the things blocking you from your writing flow without the act of force.


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Cameron calls this book a cheerleader as each chapter leads you into the next because each one is another important and meaningful step into a writer’s journey of growth and enlightenment. At the end of each chapter, there are initiation tools that you can follow as helpful writing exercises to improve creativity and gain desired inspiration. In the Introduction to this book, Cameron says that every one can write because “writing is good for the soul,” and as spiritual beings, writing “is a powerful form of prayer and meditation.” <ref>Cameron, Julia ''The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (1998) pg Introduction</ref> She explains the many blocks that come from the act of writing but shows us the way to escape them and use writing as a way of expression. She hopes “this book will help to heal writer’s who are broken, initiate writers who are afraid, and entice writers who are standing at river’s edge, wanting to put a toe in.” <ref>Cameron, Julia ''The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (1998) pg Introduction</ref>
Cameron calls this book a cheerleader where each chapter succeeds the next of a writer’s journey of growth and enlightenment. At the end of each chapter, there are initiation tools that a reader could follow that the author uses as helpful writing exercises to improve creativity and gain desired inspiration. In the Introduction to this book, Cameron says that every one can write because “writing is good for the soul,” and as spiritual beings, writing “is a powerful form of prayer and meditation.” <ref>Cameron, Julia ''The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (1998) pg Introduction</ref> She explains the many blocks that come from the act of writing but shows us the way to escape them and use writing as a way of expression. She hopes “this book will help to heal writer’s who are broken, initiate writers who are afraid, and entice writers who are standing at river’s edge, wanting to put a toe in.” <ref>Cameron, Julia ''The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (1998) pg Introduction</ref>


== Section Summary ==
== Section Summary ==

Revision as of 00:12, 9 March 2010

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
AuthorJulia Cameron
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-Fiction
PublisherPenguin Putnam Inc.
Publication date
27 December 1999
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint Paperback
Pages233pp
ISBN1585420093

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life, by Julia Cameron is a non-fiction book about unleashing the creative process within- to let it come more natural and carefree to make for a more fulfilling life. She claims that writing can be a spiritual experience that can help heal you and take away all the things blocking you from your writing flow without the act of force.

Synopsis

Cameron calls this book a cheerleader where each chapter succeeds the next of a writer’s journey of growth and enlightenment. At the end of each chapter, there are initiation tools that a reader could follow that the author uses as helpful writing exercises to improve creativity and gain desired inspiration. In the Introduction to this book, Cameron says that every one can write because “writing is good for the soul,” and as spiritual beings, writing “is a powerful form of prayer and meditation.” [1] She explains the many blocks that come from the act of writing but shows us the way to escape them and use writing as a way of expression. She hopes “this book will help to heal writer’s who are broken, initiate writers who are afraid, and entice writers who are standing at river’s edge, wanting to put a toe in.” [2]

Section Summary

Sketching is one of the chapters in this book that Cameron refers to as "learned faith"[3]- to listen and feel the writing when it flows through you. She says “it is the feeling of trusting and having that trust rewarded”[4] and knowing that the right words will come to you like impulses that immerge inside you. She mentions that when she is sketching a new piece, she first draws the tree blossoms but the leaves will come later. You might not know right away what exactly you want to say but images will start showing up because it is the writing itself that will know what to do. You may not know how something will end up like writing a novel but if you knew what was going to happen when you start, the reader will also and this would be too predictable. She describes this powerful technique like a voice inside your head that starts talking and you begin to listen to it as a story while writing down the details. But once you begin to know where you are going, the worry and doubt sets it which become a wall and control starts to set in. The wall is a place where we begin to compete but to escape this; we all need to know it is ok to write badly. Once we are able to accept this, we become free and can once again start to sketch.

The Initiation Tool for this section is to take one half hour to sketch the room your in, the mood your in, and anything else around you that might be of interest, Then make a list from one to five of different topics you would like to write about – without the worry of being practical or deep.

Sections in Book

Introduction
Begin
Let Yourself Write
Let Yourself Listen
The Time Lie
Track
Bad Writing
This Writing Life
Mood
Drama
The wall of Infamy
Valuing Our Experience
Specificity
Body of Experience
The well
Sketching
Loneliness
Witness
Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?
Connection
Being an Open Channel
Integrating
Credibility
Place
Happiness
Making It
Honesty
Vulnerability
Dailiness
Voice
Form Versus Formula
Footwork
Practice
Containment
Sound
I would Love To Write, But…
Driving
Roots
ESP
Cheap Tricks
Stakes
Procrastination
Into the Water
The Right to Write

References

  1. ^ Cameron, Julia The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (1998) pg Introduction
  2. ^ Cameron, Julia The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (1998) pg Introduction
  3. ^ Cameron, Julia The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (1998) pg 69
  4. ^ Cameron, Julia The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (1998) pg 69


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