Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your WayHere is a personal and compassionate book for everyone writers, poets, teachers, lovers of life, and especially those seeking to find their writing voices again or for the first time. It is an autobiographical travelogue moving from a volcano in Hawaii to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and places in between, with writing at its heart. Writing Toward Home offers practical advice on overcoming some of the obstacles writers of all ages face: writer's block, fear of rejection, confronting silencing critics in your head, finding the time to write. Each short chapter speaks to the larger truths about writing and how to truly live the writer's life: how to become more of a risk taker, how to excavate the past as a source, and how to become an acute observer of the world. Writing Toward Home is a book that will remind you-and help you remind your students-that the true source of writing is the creative self. In this fast culture when most people have so little time to do anything but menial tasks, it will jumpstart you, it will awaken to you the journey within, it will make you want to write. |
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... notebook is my filter of what's important and what's not . Lining the shelf of the closet in my study are notebooks collected over ten years : red - spined Chinese notebooks with ivory lined paper , blue and brown spiral notebooks ...
... notebook I censor . But I try to tell the truth to myself first and foremost . Joan Didion writes : " So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been , nor is it now , to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or ...
... notebook make your words seem too precious ? Will a spiral notebook make you feel your words are important enough ? Is your notebook too heavy or too big to carry around with you ? Once you choose , leave the cover blank or decorate it ...
Contents
Where Does Writing Hide? | 10 |
Keeping the Channel Open | 24 |
Dont Try to Avoid the Rocks | 38 |
Copyright | |
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