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Book List - Writing
Updated December 10, 2002

"I am a big advocate of writing as a therapeutic technique." - Susan Forward, Author of Toxic Parents

Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration For Women Who Write (available at the Hamilton Public Library)
by Gayle Brandeis
ISBN 0-06-251724-4
I highly recommend this book. It's a treat! Gayle's tasteful metaphors and well chosen excerpts from other fruitful writers can get your creative juices flowing.
Writing Personal Poetry: Creating Poems from Your Life Experiences
by Sheila Bender
ISBN 0898798132

Writing As A Way Of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
by Louise DeSalvo
ISBN 0-8070-7243-5
"Writing As A Way Of Healing includes valuable advice and practical techniques to guide
and inspire both experienced and beginning writers." - Beacon Press

"An exquisite gift of grace. It will help you write yourself out of the wilderness of pain
and denial into wholeness." - Sarah Ban Breathnach, author of Simple Abundance

Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life
by Bonnie Friedman
ISBN 006016607X

Wild Mind: Living The Writer's Life
by Natalie Goldberg
ISBN 0-553-34775-6
"Being a writer is a whole way of life, a way of seeing, thinking, being. Writers hand
on what they know." - Natalie Goldberg

Writing Down The Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
by Natalie Goldberg
ISBN 0877733759 (pbk)
Writing Your Way: Creating A Personal Journal (available at HPL)
by Ellen Jaffe of Hamilton
ISBN 1-894549-04-X

Writing Lifestories ... and Other Fictions: A Book About Natural Creativity,
Original Expression, and the Transformative Power of Stories (available at HPL)
by Martyn Kendrick of Hamilton
ISBN 0968275109

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
ISBN 0679435204
"A gift to all of us mortals who write or ever wanted to write ... sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternatively cranky and kind - a reveille to get off our duffs and start writing now, while we still can."
- Seattle Times

"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder, paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"
- Anne Lamott

"The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are." - Anne Lamott

Wordstruck
by Robert MacNeil
ISBN 0-14-010401-1
"Written with perception, candor, and humour, this memoir revolves around the premise
that poetry is a fact of life, as the news of the world is." - Eudora Welty

How to Write: Advice And Reflections
by Richard Rhodes
ISBN- 0-688-14948-0
"This is a remarkable work of self-revelation ... . How generous [Rhodes] is with his mind and heart. Buy this book, buy it. It's a handbook on how to live." - The Washington Post

Poemcrazy: Freeing your life with words
by Susan G. Wooldridge
ISBN 0-517-70370-X
"This is a wonderful book, smart, wide-eyed, joyful, helpful, inspiring. You're going to love it and writing poetry more for having read it."
- Anne Lamott, Author of Bird by Bird

"I invite you to drop a line into the pool of words around you and within you begin making poems that express more than words can say, an act Allen Ginsberg calls 'ordinary magic'."
- Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge