| Description: |
xviii, 189 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary: |
Offers personal anecdotes and a series of monthly assignments which combine writing themes and mindfulness exercises as a way of enhancing storytelling skills. |
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(Premise, promise, and precepts) -- Winter -- January (rebirth) introduction: writing as a path to awakening -- February (becoming) reading on the path to awakening spring -- March (emergence) practice and process -- April (blossoming) poetry: the language of possibility -- May (imagination) the art of the image summer -- June (amusement) surprise, humor, taking the vow, and calling forth the muse -- July (audacity) absolute daring. . .telling/writing the truth -- August (devotion) permission to flow -- Autumn -- September (revelation) the essence of story: journey to the center of the self -- October (abundance) the five senses and the embodied self -- November(reflection) editing and the art of revision winter -- December (sanctuary) writing, living, dying, and becoming . . . full circle. |
| Subject: |
Authorship -- Religious aspects.
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Spiritual life.
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Self-knowledge in literature.
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| ISBN/ISSN: |
9781622039111 (paperback) |
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1622039114 (paperback) |
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