Ebook: Creating a life worth living: a practical course in career design for aspiring writers, artists, filmmakers, musicians, and others who want to make a living from their creative work

The dive -- Ecstatic task: the daily action: interview with David Lloyd -- Stoking the coals: idea profusion: interview with The Monk Brothers -- The dig -- Excavating the future: searching memory for inspiration and information: interview with Eric Mc Dougall -- Kaleidoscope of creativity: understanding your artistic profile: interview with Mary Gairskill -- Neglected needs: time, money, and desire: interview with Michael Lehmann -- The drudge we do for dollars: day jobs: interview with Raz Kennedy -- The design -- The long and winding roads: exploring your possible futures: interview with Lynn Gordon -- Goals: the art you give yourself: interview with Loretta Staples -- A map to the moon: planning your project: interview with Chris Wink -- The doing -- Magic at work: desinging your daily process: interview with Jonathan Lethem -- Building a bridge you can jump on: support structures: interview with Bill Rauch -- Swimming in the darkness: pursuing the creative life: interview with Meredith Monk -- Spot profiles of innovators and artists -- Dennis Dun -- Keith Johnstone -- Sara Shelton Mann -- Adam Beckman -- Sallie Tisdale -- Dan Perkins -- R.J. Cutler -- Ariel Gore -- Margaret Jenkins -- Beth Custer -- Adlai Alexander -- Joe Goode.;Dreaming 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. Creating a Life Worth Living is for the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, but who are looking for more down-to-earth solutions and concrete tasks for achieving their goals. Creating a Life Worth Living 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. The pursuit of one's dreams is one of the great joys in life but also one of the most terrifying. Creating a Life Worth Living is an invaluable road map for this journey, guiding readers as they take the first tentative steps that are necessary before they can fly.