Writing from Life: Telling Your Soul's Story
Writing from Life is a guided writing program that will empower any woman to pick up a pen and chart the geography of her unique and fascinating life.
With a profound respect for each woman's personal narrative, author Susan Wittig Albert leads the reader inward, inspiring her to tell her own soul's story, chapter by chapter. With exercises, meditations, and examples from women's writings, Writing from Life invites you to put into words the parts of life that often leave us speechless: the loss of love; the birth of a child; the devastation of illness; the exhilaration of work; the unfinished business that haunts us when a parent dies. Whether you're an experienced writer or someone whose jottings have been limited to vacation postcards or business memos, this book will give you the practical tools you needs to get it all on paper.
Author
Susan Wittig Albert
Technical Specs
Softcover
256 pages
Expert Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Believing that all women have stories to tell and that they can grow spiritually as they learn to put those stories into words, Susan Witting Albert provides a guided writing program that is practical and inspiring. Her step-by-step instructions and exercises derive from her 30 years experience as a teacher of writing. She encourages women to discover their own voices through exploration of eight thematic clusters: beginnings and birthings; achievements, gifts and glories; female bodies; loves, lovers, lovings; journeys and journeying; homes and homings; visits to the Valley of Shadows; and, experiences of community. In an appendix, Albert shows writers how to create what she calls a "Story Circle," a community of women who can gain, through sharing their writing, a sense of belonging and an appreciation of "transformative magic of writing." Albert's book brings charm and elegance to the view of writing as a process of self-discovery.
