Writing from the Body: For Writers, Artists and Dreamers Who Long to Free Their Voice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312115364)

A book about spirit, creativity, and the inner life of the writer

Certain writing books go beyond questions of craft and art to explore the deepest sources of the creative impulse. Writing from the Body is not a head book; it is a heart book, a shoulder book, a hand book, a back book, and a soul book that liberates writers from the shackles of self-consciousness and doubt.

Developed from John Lee's popular workshops that have helped thousands of writers, this book offers meditative techniques, physical exercises, and candid counseling--all designed to combat the fears, self-imposed standards, and suppressed feelings that block creative potential. Inspirational qutoes from poems and prose develop John Lee's central message: in order to write from the truth of our total experience, we most return to our bodies.

As Lee notes, The call to write is a call that's received in the body first. If we are to answer this call, we have to feel every part of our lives. In this book you'll learn the grammar of the gut, the syntax of the sinews, the launage of the legs. For everyone who is tired of living life in the little closet between the ears, get ready.

Any writer, artist, teacher, or psychologist interested in the creative process will find this book invaluable, a lasting source of hope and power.

Author: John Lee
ISBN-10: 0312115369
ISBN-13: 9780312115364
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1994
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/1994 pg. 472
Library Journal 09/15/1994 pg. 77