Interesting book

For all of  you that just finished the Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, you may be interested in this book by Brenda Ueland called, IF YOU WANT TO WRITE , A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit.

It echos so much of what Artist's Way had to say, except that it was written in 1938!!

I looked in the Artist's Way bibliography, but Ueland was not listed.  Then I looked in the Bibliography in Vein of Gold and there she was!  I am really enjoying Ueland's  book and her writing of that era.  She was a great admirer of William Blake, Van Gough, Chekhov, and Mozart to name a few and discusses them also.

Thoughts continuously well up in us - put them to paper,  canvas, music.  That is all there is to it.  But it must be from your true self - not what you think you should be.  Be bold.  Be free.  Be truthful.

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.  Brenda Ueland