People often find The Artist’s Way in times of struggle and change. Cameron herself conceived of The Artist’s Way after she became sober in 1978. She was a writer, and had believed that creativity and drinking went together “like scotch and soda.” In that transitional period, she realized that what she believed in—really believed in like a religion—was creative energy. “Before that, I wanted to be a real brilliant smarty-pants,” she tells me over Zoom from her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, wearing pink glasses, and speaking gently and close to the camera. “And after I got sober, I wanted to be more of service, more useful, and more clear in my writing. And my writing untangled itself, and so did my career.”
The Artist’s Way was realized as a 12-week program, a parallel with AA programs, with each week giving the reader tasks: Write down all the people you’re jealous of and why; imagine what you would do if you were 20 and had money, and conversely if you were 65 and had money; bake something; list down traits you liked about yourself as a child; make five arguments on why you can’t believe in God (accompanied by the parenthetical, “God can take it.”) Each week is centered around doing morning pages and taking yourself on an “artist’s date,” an amount of time, alone, to let your inner creative child roam. Amid the pandemic, Cameron is asked often what people should do for the date. “Well, you can take a bubble bath,” she says, settling into a long list. “Well, you can light a candle. Well, you can sketch. Well, you can listen to some music you don’t normally listen to. Well, you can listen to a strange podcast. Well, you can paint your fingernails and your toenails with Swarovski crystals. It helps to not be too sophisticated. It helps to do something an 8-year-old would enjoy.”
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