Excerpted from The Right to Write by Julia Cameron. Copyright 1999 by Julia Cameron. Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Writing is like breathing.
I believe that. I believe we all come into life as writers. I am sitting at a small pine table, facing east toward the Sangre de Cristo foothills. When it warms up and that yellow hose has thawed out, I will fill the horse tank. When I warm up, I will tell you what I know about letting yourself write.