
Seven Steps on the Writer's Path
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Whether you're a wannabe writer or a published literary veteran, you're bound to find this book a source of true delight, vital wisdom, and lasting inspiration.
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A licensed family therapist who holds two master's degrees in counseling and psychology, Lynn Lott has taught parenting, trained family therapists, and worked for years as an associate professor at Sonoma State University. She is a diplomate in the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology, the highest achievement in that group. Her self-help books include Positive Discipline A-Z, Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Positive Discipline for Parenting in Recovery, Positive Discipline in the Classroom, Do-It-Yourself Therapy, and Chores Without Wars. The mother of two and stepmother of two, she lives with her husband and dogs, dividing their time between California and Florida.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Praise
- Epigraph
- Preface
- The Trailhead Starting Out
- The Ebb and Flow of Creativity
- Unhappiness
- Unhappiness by Any Other Name
- Let Us Now Praise Unhappiness
- Feeling and Revealing
- Now for the Bad News
- Isn't There Any Good News?
- Other Signs That You're on This Step
- Still Not Convinced You're Ever on This Step?
- Welcoming the Dark Guest
- One Last Word about Unhappiness . . .
- Wanting
- And It's No Different for Writers
- When Wanting Is Working
- But What If Wanting Isn't Working?
- Let's Get Those Motors Running
- Collect and Focus to Find Your Wants
- Listen to the Tongue in Your Shoe
- Be Open and Ready When You Stumble into Your Wants
- Heed the Messages of Your Dreams and Nightmares
- I'm So Jealous I Could Want
- Lynn and Nancy's Jealousy, Envy, and Longing List
- What If I Never Get What I Want?
- Commitment
- Still Crazy After All These Books
- Energy to Intention to Action
- Lynn Puts Her Life Where Her Mouth Is
- Learn as You Go
- The Shuttered Lantern
- Commitment + Great Risk = Huge Rewards
- "The Whole Trouble with You Is . . ."
- Creatures of Conventional Wisdom
- "I Don't Do Schedules," Says M. Black and White
- Once Upon a Time, You Knew What You Wanted Most
- Born to Write
- Patience Is Not My Middle Name
- We Warned You, Writing Is Hard
- And It Takes a Long Time
- Wavering
- Will You or Won't You?
- The Look of Wavering
- Who Wouldn't Waver?
- Who's That Wavering at Me in the Mirror?
- When Doubt Is a Good Thing
- Wavering Your Way to Clarity about Yourself
- You Are Stuck Here. But Why?
- A Test of Your Mettle
- When It Isn't Wavering
- How to Take the Wobble out of Your Waver
- Letting Go
- This Is the Step That Separates Your Future from Your Past
- Let Go of . . . What?
- Kill Your Darlings
- You Can Want It All, But Can You Have It All?
- Emptying the Pitcher
- Free-Falling
- How Do You Let Go?
- Top-Card Writers in Action
- Want to Try Something New?
- Get Ready to Fly!
- Immersion
- Be It Resolved: That I Write
- A Constant Test of Your Resolve
- Practicing Resolve
- Free to Be Incompetent
- Separated at Birth?
- Choosing Your Depth of Immersion
- Fulfillment
- I Don't Get No Satisfaction!
- Dare to Dream Small
- How Do You Spell Fulfillment?
- Ending without Fulfillment
- Fulfillment without Ending
- The Never-Ending Journey
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Sources
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Copyright Page
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