Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Coppelman. Thanks for listening. I am beyond thrilled

that Julia Cameron has returned to have another conversation. There are a few people whose

work has had a more tangible impact on my ability to do creative work. The artist's

way changed my life for the better, full-stop period, and Julia has not stopped doing this

kind of work for all of our benefit. Her new book Right for Life, which is a six-week version

of the artist's way for kind of project-specific, but also a great introduction into all the

stuff she talks about is available and is something that you should get. We'll talk about why I have

read the first two weeks of it, but I actually have a project that when I'm done with the season

of billions I need to do, and I'm saving it, to do it then the whole book, because I'll tell you,

Julia, and I wonder if you've heard this from people, but the moment I started reading it, I just

felt so much comfort and support and love in the way that you bring us back to the gift of

creativity, and so I'm wondering what made you write this now? What were you thinking about? Well,

I've been a writer for 56 years, and I found myself listening to people and hearing a lot of

negative mythology about writing, that it took great discipline, that it was very difficult,

that it was something that you had to be flogged forward to do, and I thought, that's not my experience,

so I thought, maybe I'll write a book about my experience, sort of the tricks and clues and cues

that have come to me over the years, so hopefully the book dismantles a lot of negative mythology and

moves people into action. Well, your books do that for sure, and I did feel that you're the first person

who very clearly articulated both the benefit of morning pages, three long-hand pages that are

free writing. In this book, you make it very clear they're supposed to be eight by 11 pages,

which your workbook was, but which all of us have at times allowed the journal to shrink,

and it made me get my bigger journal out, again, when I read that in the new book,

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