Starting Your Book

Starting a book isn't a formula you need to learn--it's an organic growth that can only come from you.YOU Are the Secret Ingredient Unlike most writing guides that focus solely on craft, Starting Your Book illuminates what truly enables inspired writing: your connection with your inner being. This intimate companion highlights the person doing the writing rather than just the product, showing you how to look inward and invite out the treasures of your deeper Self. You'll learn to navigate the blank page not through force, but by attending to what's inside you-where all real writing begins-and to look on your writing process as a sacred journey. You'll Discover:How to transform writing fear and blank page anxiety into creative fuel Ways to access your authentic voice and inner writing wisdom Whether you're a "top-down" or "bottom-up" writer and how to work with your natural creative pathways How to create sacred time and space that invite inspiration Techniques for engaging both your linear and artistic intelligence The magic of desire as your book's growth hormone How to tell when you're writing from your true self versus trying too hard More Than a How-To Guide: When you align with your true creative nature, beautiful and fulfilling writing naturally flows. Writing your book becomes not an assignment, but a living relationship that gifts you in ways extending far beyond completing a manuscript. The book includes gentle, inspiring practices and an intimate look at how this very book was written, plus a reader's moving account of how these principles transformed her own writing journey. Whether you want to write fiction, nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, or memoir, this is your guide to discovering that you simply need to notice and honor your unique creative ways. "There are plenty of writing 'boot camps' out there that burgeoning authors can throw themselves into headlong; Rose urges her readers to instead breathe in, lead with the heart, and come to the empowering realization that there is nothing that must be forced onto those stark white pages. A thoroughly illuminating and instructive take on the craft of writing. ~ Kirkus Reviews "Reading your book was like receiving a comforting hug of encouragement. I love everything about it: the way you've organized it; the crisp, succinct words of advice that don't hit you over the head; and the gentle, thought-provoking exercises. The connection of writing and the heart ~ of the practice of writing as a way to get in touch with the divinity in ourselves ~ how true! How could this elude us, ever? Once you have this treasure in your being, you realize how clear it all is ~ why we write, why it matters." ~ Jane Majkiewicz, writer, editor, literary agency emeritus