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Everyone at work loves this book. Put shortly, it sucks. If you're turning to a step-by-step guide to becoming more creative, chances are you're doing something wrong. Skip the self-help books and just start writing/acting/painting/whatever.
Here's why I didn't like it:
1) Length. She gets very long-winded and tends to ramble. It seems like she gets too carried away in her "creativity" and says the same thing in 5 different ways (with the aid of a thesaurus). This reads like a brain dump.
2) Repetition. Repetition in message makes sense in a self-help book. Repetition in content, both within a chapter and within the book as a whole just adds length and frustration.
3) Too many voices. She switches between "you," "I," "we," and "one."
4) She cheapens her message with corny terms like "artist's child within." Californication had an entire season of jokes on these types of new-agey terms for a reason.
5) Human condition descriptions are annoying. Each task she suggests you undertake solves a particular problem. She starts out by putting this problem in a universal context. That'd be fine if she made the reader feel like they weren't the only one with said problem. But she just re-states the obvious (she basically says "everyone wants be creative" over and over.)
6) Religion, as others have mentioned. It's not that religiosity itself is a con. It's that she claims you don't have to believe in God to use her method in one brief sentence, but the book is overtly Christian and, despite what she says, it'd be difficult for a non-Christian to do her exercises (or want to). She should either embrace this and not make claims that it's not religious or tone down the language.
7) Self-importance. She drops names constantly. It just makes her seem kind of pathetic, not credible.

However, I will give her this -- she does have a great business model: come out with a book that is so terribly formatted and hard for the reader to use (subheadings aren't informative, layout is distracting, instructions aren't consistent, it's just a mess), lure the self-help crowd into buying your book, and then, instead of releasing a second edition that corrects the above issues, release The Artist's Way Workbookso that everyone who bought the book also has to buy the workbook, doubling your sales.Get more detail about The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity.