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Diana Raab
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I get inspired by reading other writers who I love. I also go hiking and do needlepoint.
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Writers and Their Notebooks
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Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life
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Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal
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Writers on the Edge: 22 Writers Speak about Addiction and Dependency
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Lust
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Healing With Words: A writer's cancer journey
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Writing for Bliss: A Companion Journal
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Hummingbird: A Memoir -- Messages from my Ancestors
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Listening to Africa
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Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You
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2008
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“No one can expect to write well who would not first take the risk of writing badly. The writer’s notebook is a safe place for such experiments to be undertaken.”
― Writers and Their Notebooks
― Writers and Their Notebooks
“I must thank those champions of free-writing—Louise Dunlap, Peter Elbow, Natalie Goldberg—for giving me the tool that allowed me to write.”
― Writers and Their Notebooks
― Writers and Their Notebooks
“References Baker, Nicholson. U and I: A True Story. New York: Random House, 1991. Didion, Joan. “On Keeping a Notebook,” in Slouching toward Bethlehem. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Dunlap, Louise. Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing. Oakland: New Village Press, 2007. Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones. Boston: Shambala, 1996. Junker, Howard, ed. The Writer’s Notebook. San Francisco: HarperCollins West, 1995. Lu Chi. Wen Fu: The Art of Writing. Translated by Sam Hamill. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2000.”
― Writers and Their Notebooks
― Writers and Their Notebooks
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Maintaining healthy physical and emotional health is vitally important in all aspects of life, especially when it comes to breast cancer. In my latest Huffington Post article, I share my personal journey with breast cancer and I share some positive steps to avoid it.
In my latest Psychology Today article, Communication From Boardroom to Bedroom, learn how about why communication between the sheets is as important as it is in professional settings.
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Spiritual seekers have the ability to change themselves and the world around them. Learn about how following the path of self-discovery can transform your life in my latest Psychology Today article, Spiritual Seekers: The Backstory.
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