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The author of this book, a writer and therapist, offers a detailed delightfully anecdotal map to the inner world of creativity and imagination often obscured by the pressures of our daily lives and by physical and emotional pain. By exploring autobiography, storytelling, myths, fairy tales, dreams and inner guides, Deena Metzger shows how writing shapes informs our lives and how our "silence" hinders us.
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There was a little girl who, when she was three years old, wrote, or rather told, her first poem: Tree it doesn't grow in water, it doesn't grow in sand, but in happy children's hands. Read the first page
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There was a little girl who, when she was three years old, wrote, or rather told, her first poem: Tree it doesn't grow in water, it doesn't grow in sand, but in happy children's hands. Read the first page
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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
This seven-novel writer's bible for getting off the dime
3 Dec 1997
Format:Paperback
Metzger does the best job I've seen on jump-starting your creativity, and tying your writing into archetypes. There's lots for the reader who wants to think of writing as a spiritual exercise. BUT for me, by far, its great gift is pragmatic. Between books, or when I feel stuck, or at the beginning of a revision, I take out "On Story" and work through all her suggestions as if it were the first time. I always come up with something new and deeper relevant to THIS story--or I come up with a new story entirely. If you are ready to get past Natalie Goldberg to the goods, here's the book. It helped me tremendously with my last novel.
34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Beware - read this book and you may start writing your own!
9 July 1996
Format:Paperback
Banish writer's block forever with Deena Metzger's Writing
for Your Life. This boldly titled book is packed with
inspirational material for the writer and creative writing
teacher.There are many, many books on the market promising
to unleash the imaginations of beginning writers -
Metzger's actually delivers the goods. Her writing exercises
confront, challenge and provoke. They are tickets to the
most exciting journey of your life - an exploration of the
human heart. If a book could turn a person into a writer,
this is the book. Of course, just reading cannot do that
trick. Metzger, however, makes the idea of writing so
exciting that the blank page no longer intimidates but
invites. If I were shipwrecked, I would take Writing for
Your Life, reams and reams of paper, enough pens for a
lifetime and M F K Fisher's The Art of Eating - but that's
another story....
for Your Life. This boldly titled book is packed with
inspirational material for the writer and creative writing
teacher.There are many, many books on the market promising
to unleash the imaginations of beginning writers -
Metzger's actually delivers the goods. Her writing exercises
confront, challenge and provoke. They are tickets to the
most exciting journey of your life - an exploration of the
human heart. If a book could turn a person into a writer,
this is the book. Of course, just reading cannot do that
trick. Metzger, however, makes the idea of writing so
exciting that the blank page no longer intimidates but
invites. If I were shipwrecked, I would take Writing for
Your Life, reams and reams of paper, enough pens for a
lifetime and M F K Fisher's The Art of Eating - but that's
another story....
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
A gift for any writer who wants to go deeper
3 Feb 2009
Format:Paperback
Deena Metzger's book is generous, spiritual, pragmatic and inspiring. Her exercises and prompts may lead you to deep areas within yourself that are surprising and she is a constant, understanding guide. You won't be disappointed.
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