Wes Locher's Blog - Posts Tagged "coaching"

A Writer's Space: Make Room to Dream, to Work, to Write by Eric Maisel


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
My main motivation for picking up Eric Maisel's A Writer's Space was because I had recently moved into a new home and was having some trouble setting up my home office to be a comfortable environment in which to write in. This book had a lot of helpful advice on how to set up a good area for yourself where you can be creative and the good energy can flow.

The rest of he chapters on this book deal with mental and meta-physical "spaces" which went a little deeper than what I was looking for. Near the end of the book, Maisel gets into some crazy existential stuff that might make your head hurt. I just write funny stories, so it was a little too deep for my profession. Since it's a small book, I powered through it all, never wanting to pass up good writing advice. But in the end, the target market for this book is people who want to write, but have a million excuses not to do so. It's about centering yourself, making the time to write, and then creating the book or novel you've been dreaming about. There is a lot of good advice within the pages and were I weighed down with a serious case of writers block then this would be a helpful volume to have handy.

The author does a good job of encouraging the reader to do the writing and remains helpful and supportive throughout. He covers tips for both fiction and non-fiction, so any future author can take something from reading this small, yet very inspirational book. Want to write, but unsure of how to get started? Then I highly recommend this book to you! If you're looking for some very deep writing on existential concepts, then oddly enough, you'll find those here as well.

View all my reviews >>