Living Revision
Description
?Revision is the spiritual practice of transformation?of seeing text, and therefore the world, with new eyes. Done well, revision returns us to our original love.?
In Living Revision, award-winning author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew guides writers through the writing and revision process. With insight and grace, Andrew asks writers to flex their spiritual muscles, helping them to transform their writing as they in turn transform into more curious and reflective human beings. Her expertly honed techniques, exercises, and personal examples will help writers invigorate their work and themselves as they engage the human heart within and across the page. Living Revision is no mere guide with tips and tricks?although it does have those?but a deep and reflective well for writers to draw from as they strengthen their relationship to the creative source.
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Person
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew teaches creative writing at Wisdom Ways Center for Spirituality in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of the novel, Hannah, Delivered; the essay collection On the Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness, and two books for writers: Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir and Living Revision: A Writer's Craft as Spiritual Practice, which received a Nautilus Award in 2018. She is also a recipient of two Minneapolis State Arts Board artist's fellowships, the Loft Career Initiative Grant, and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. She delights in her partner, daughter, and garden.
Content
Foreword by Brenda Miller
Introduction
Revising Our Ideas about Revision
Starting Rough
The Long Lovely Journey
So What?
Becoming an Author
Deep Listening
Seeing with Others' Eyes
Early Revisions and the Big Changes
Reframing
Practicing Presence
Strengthening Movement
Finding Form
Late Revisions and Completion
Adding by Subtraction
Language
The Word, the Self, and the World
Selected Bibliography
