{"product_id":"creating-a-life-worth-living-9780060952433","title":"Creating a Life Worth Living","description":"\u003cp\u003eDreaming is easy. Making it happen is hard. With a fresh perspective, Carol Lloyd motivates the person searching for two things: the creative life and a life of sanity, happiness and financial solvency. \u003cem\u003eCreating a Life Worth Living\u003c\/em\u003e is for the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Julia Cameron's \u003cem\u003eThe Artist's Way, \u003c\/em\u003e but who are looking for more down-to-earth solutions and concrete tasks for achieving their goals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCreating a Life Worth Living\u003c\/em\u003e helps the reader search memory for inspiration, understand his or her individual artistic profile, explore possible futures, design a daily process and build a structure of support. Each of the 12 chapters, such as \"The Drudge We Do For Dollars\" and \"Excavating the Future,\" contains specific exercises and daily tasks that help readers to clarify their desires and create a tangible plan of action for realizing dreams. The book also provides inspiring anecdotes and interviews with people who have succeeded in their chosen fields, such as performance artist Anna Devere Smith, writer Sally Tisdale and filmmaker R. J. Cutler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pursuit of one's dreams is one of the great joys in life but also one of the most terrifying. \u003cem\u003eCreating a Life Worth Living\u003c\/em\u003e is an invaluable road map for this journey, guiding readers as they take the first tentative steps that are necessary before they can fly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLloyd, Carol:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Carol Lloyd, a writer, performer, and entrepreneur, is the founder of The Writing Parlor, a San Francisco literary arts center. For the past seven years, she has led Life Worth Living workshops, helping hundreds attain their creative dreams. Her essay and short fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including \u003cem\u003ethe New York Times Magazine, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Focus, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, where she is a regular contributor.","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317854638354,"sku":"9780060952433","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f5df5865-f7e7-40b6-a6b7-a34fb2b7a986.jpg?v=1727541428","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/creating-a-life-worth-living-9780060952433","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}