false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167861523m/27044.jpg 27044 1 <ul><I>[This] is a book for the writer hidden or not so hidden in us all...It is a book for any age, to be read in little bits or all at once, and to be reread regularly.</I><br /> - Inland</ul><P>Here is a personal and compassionate book for everyone writers, poets, teachers, lovers of life, and especially those seeking to find their writing voices again or for the first time. It is an autobiographical travelogue moving from a volcano in Hawaii to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and places in between, with writing at its heart. <P>Writing Toward Home offers practical advice on overcoming some of the obstacles writers of all ages face: writer's block, fear of rejection, confronting silencing critics in your head, finding the time to write. Each short chapter speaks to the larger truths about writing and how to truly live the writer's life: how to become more of a risk taker, how to excavate the past as a source, and how to become an acute observer of the world. <P><I>Writing Toward Home</I> is a book that will remind you-and help you remind your students-that the true source of writing is the creative self. In this fast culture when most people have so little time to do anything but menial tasks, it will jumpstart you, it will awaken to you the journey within, it will make you want to write. </P> 27698 16 10 1995 Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way total:30|5:13|4:10|3:6|2:1|1:0| 30 125 43 6 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 09:51:37 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 09:54:25 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 04 08:53:07 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 07:02:17 -0800 2009
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