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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.02
EAN num: 9780809224975
ISBN number: 0809224976
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: April 21, 2001
Publishing house: McGraw-Hill
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Studio: McGraw-Hill
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Inside the mind of every writer a story exists, and it is the writer's job to find it. But according to poet and teacher Patrice Vecchione, it's only when writers tap into their own spirituality, in whatever form, that they'll be able to find their true voices and release their stories.
In the tradition of Anne Lamott's best-selling Bird by Bird, and Julia Cameron's The Right to Write, Writing and the Spiritual Life interweaves the remarks of prominent writers such as Annie Dillard and Joy Marjo with easy-to-follow writing activities.
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This is such a great book! Vecchione has a gifted way of drawing you towards your soul and the stories only you can tell. She makes it obvious that we all have an important voice to share, and she gives you really helpful tools to acess this. I can't recommend this book highly enough. I'd put it up there with Goldberg's Writing down the Bones and The Artist's Way. This is a book any person interested in writing should have in their collection.
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Without espousing a particular spirituality, Vecchione allows the reader to explore her/his own source of spiritual energy. This book inspires one not only to write; but to affirm all that is creative and beautiful in our lives. You will be a better person as well as writer for reading this book.
I have recommended and given this book to both writers and non-writers alike.
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This an intelligent, honest, heartfelt book that does not hold anything back. Use it as a gentle guide to a wonderful process. I have it in my stack of "come back to fequently books". I use parts of it with my adolecent students and have given it as a gift to just about everyone I know, writers and adventurersome seekers, a like. Not your classic "how-to" book. It is much more. Full of wisdom that comes from loving writing and fully living life, this book is a rare find.
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This an intelligent, honest, heartfelt book that does not hold anything back. Use it as a gentle guide to a wonderful process. I have it in my stack of "come back to fequently books". I use parts of it with my adolecent students and have given it as a gift to just about everyone I know, writers and adventurersome seekers, a like. Not your classic "how-to" book. It is much more. Full of wisdom that comes from loving writing and fully living life, this book is a rare find.
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This is a book about the process of writing and what it means, especially as a spiritual practice.
It is best consumed in small doses as the prose is dense with meaning. It is not dense like a scientific text, it is dense like a poem, not surprising because the author is, among other things, a poet. She is a widely-read one who quotes sources which were entirely unknown to me.
Chapters such as "Doubt and the Inner Critic," "Beginning A Writing Spiritual Practice," and my favorite, "Wordlessness In Writing Practice" (which a less imaginative sort might call writer's block) act as signposts for places that the writing pilgrim might find along the way. My favorite exercise is "Building an Altar of Uncertainty."
This book both invites and rejects comparisons with Natalie Goldberg's _Writing Down the Bones_. Vecchione doesn't give a fig, in the end, what it is that you write, only that you do write.
I imagine that the intended audience for this book is writers of poetry and fiction, but there is much in here of value to those whose primary writing is keeping a diary or journal. So do write, Dear Reader, but first, ponder this book.
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