'Fasten your seat belt and write on'

 

“I think we have a great deal ofmythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. Iwrote a book called The Right to Write.  In it,I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal towrite as it is to speak.” – Julia Cameron

 

Born in Libertyville, IL on thisdate in 1948, Cameron has been a teacher, artist, poet, playwright, filmmaker,composer, journalist and author, most famous for her books on writing andcreativity.  The Artist's Way, her first book and massivebestseller, came out in 1992 and she has now written a remarkable 36 nonfictionbooks, 2 novels, 6 plays, 4 books of poetry and many short stories, essays andscreenplays.

 

Bookending her first success, shepublished Living the Artist’s Way: An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativityin 2024 on the heels of another successful “How To” book Write for Life: AToolkit for Writers in 2023.

 

Cameron started her writing careerat the Washington Post before moving over to RollingStone magazine.  It was there that she met director MartinScorsese and after a somewhat tumultuous marriage, they divorced butcontinued a close relationship, including collaborating on three films.

 

“I have learned, as a rule of thumb,never to ask whether you can do something,” she said.  “Say, instead,that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable thingsfollow.“