Self-Help : The Artist's Way
The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart | 
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Manufacturer: Tarcher
Release Date: 2002-02-28
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- ISBN13: 9781585421473
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 a bit dated
A lot of people rave about this book. I don't really get it. It feels a little bit like the 12-step program, and the author's thoughts are a little bit disorganized. I feel there are better books today on the subject. For general information about creativity, I prefer "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel Pink. And for a more practical how-to book on creativity: "The Creative Advantage Book" by Guillaume Wolf. The Creative Advantage Book: Unleash Your Creativity And Change The World!
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Fantastic Book
The Artist's Way is a book that I can happily recommend to all of my artistic friends. It's not perfect, but nothing is, and the exercises that have benefited me more than make up for the few that do not quite gel with me.
If you have 12 weeks to devote to jump-starting your creative life, then I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
This book is awesome
This is a great book for anyone looking to overcome a creative block or stir up their creativity in general. Such great insights and helpful exercises. I loved this book it's totally awesome.
 Poorly Organized, Badly Written, and Nothing Original
I found this book painful to read and even more painful to try to use.
Here's why I didn't like it:
1) Length. Cameron rambles. It seems like she gets too carried away in her own "creativity" and says the same thing in 5 different ways). This reads like a brain dump.
2) Repetition. This book COULD have been about 15 pages but due to the author's long-windedness and poor organization, it's not.
3) Poorly written and edited. It seems like she used the thesaurus on every other word. You'll get gems like "creativity is our true nature...as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender, green stem."
4) It's terribly formatted and hard to use. Subheadings aren't informative, the layout is distracting, instructions aren't consistent, and the 12-week plan gets lost. It's just a mess.
5) Too many voices. She switches between "you," "I," "we," and "one." It feels like this was a long stream of consciousness exercise that wasn't edited for consistency.
6) She cheapens her message with corny terms like "artist's child within." Californication had an entire season of jokes on these types of new-agey terms for a reason. Also - if 12-step language isn't your thing, avoid.
7) Religion, as others have mentioned. It's not that religiosity itself is a con. It's that she claims you don't have to believe in God to use her method in one brief sentence, but the book is overtly Christian and, despite what she says, it'd be difficult for a non-Christian to do her exercises (or want to). She should either embrace this and not make claims that it's not religious or tone down the language.
8) Self-importance. She drops names constantly. There's a difference between including testimonials to prove that your method works and going on and on about your lunches with Martin Scorsese - she does the latter.
However, I will give her this -- she does have a great business model: come out with a book that is so poorly organized and hard to use, lure the self-help crowd into buying your book, and then, instead of releasing a second edition that corrects the above issues, release The Artist's Way Workbookso that everyone who bought the book also has to buy the workbook, doubling your sales.
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