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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... Snowing in Sag Harbor . I can see the clock of the high school and the pine trees heavy with snow . Snow on the red blossoms of the tree next door . Snow on the budding daffodils and tulip leaves . Snow on the lilac bush not yet ready ...
... snow . Ever since I was a girl and we had a blizzard and everything was shut down for weeks I've loved snow . " The cab driver said , " Well , I was just telling my wife this morning how special snow is to me because of the blizzard of ...
... snow " haiku by Doris Heitmeyer was first published in Woodshavings ( Spring Street Haiku Poets , New York , 1994 ) . Reprinted by permission of the author . Excerpt from " Ode to My Socks " by Pablo Neruda from Selected Odes of Pablo ...
Contents
Where Does Writing Hide? | 10 |
Keeping the Channel Open | 24 |
Dont Try to Avoid the Rocks | 38 |
Copyright | |
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