The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart [Paperback]

In theVein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart, Julia Cameron, author ofThe Artist's Way, draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. As inThe Artist's Way, she combines eloquent essays with playful and imaginative experiential exercises to makeThe Vein of Goldan extraordinary book of learning-through-doing. Inspiring essays on the creative process and more than one hundred engaging and energizing tasks involve the reader in inner play, leading to authentic growth, renewal, and healing.The Vein of GoldAcknowledgments

Setting Out
In Your Backpack: The Basic Tools
Morning Pages
Why by Hand?
Task: Morning Pages
Artist Dates
Task: Do a Weekly Artist Date
Clusters: Your Traveling Companions
Task: Cluster List
Your Mode of Transportation: Walking
Task: Walk Daily
Task: Walk an Hour-Long Walk Weekly
Task: Walk Prayerfully
The Gateway: Entering the Imagic-Nation
Task: Manifesting—Enter Your Imagic-Nation
Creativity Commitment

The Kingdom of Story
The Narrative Time Line
Task: Filling in Notes
Task: Post a Sign on Your Mirror
Task: Contact Someone and Commit
Task: Do Your Narrative Time Line
Task: Filling in Blanks
Cups : The Key to Self-Disclosure
Task: List Five Secrets
Task: Make a Narrative Time Line Photo Album for Yourself
Words Do It
Task: Alchemy—Converting Dross to Gold
Task: Post Your Golden Words Where You Can See Them
Task: Kill a Creative Monster
Task: Celebrate a Creative Champion
The Wizard of Words
Secret Selves
Task: Name Five Secret Selves
Task: What's in Those Closets?
Task: What Would Your Life be Like?
Cinema Self
Task: Cinema Self
The Vein of Gold
Technique One: Favorite Films
Task: The Vein of Gold Quiz
Task: Binge Reading