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Jan Fortune - Writing Down Deep, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Writing Down Deep

an Alchemy of the Writing Life

Av Jan Fortune

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Writing Down Deep; an Alchemy of the Writing Life, has been a huge labour of love over the last three years.Many of the ideas have been trialed in blog articles and in online courses, and have been honed and rewritten for the book. There's also a huge amount of new material, reflections and writing prompts to help you become the writer you want to be with your own story and values.Writing Down Deep; an Alchemy of the Writing Life is a book for writers who want to dive deeply into their creative flow and into the extraordinary power of writing to affect individuals and the world. Whether you are a blogger writing articles, a memoirist, poet or novelist, writing is magical, it offers perspective shifts, leaps of imagination and connections that are vital to how we live at every level. The world is storied and those who tell stories of every kind, have a unique role and responsibility. The premise is that story (including poetry, fiction and nonfiction) is vital to human survival. It is so important that storytellers do well to become congruent with their tales.This book is for the wild idealists and alchemists of the imagination who believe that writing is so powerful that it should change us as we push the boundaries of our craft. This book is for those who see writing as an act of radical spirituality, in the broadest sense of 'spiritual' as the antonym of egotistical hubris, rather than as the opposite of 'material'.The book is a companion on the quest and, as such, you can read it straight through or slowly; make the rhythm suit you. It has five main sections that are interspersed around shorter, seasonal sections.Section 1, 'Craving the Writing Life', is an introduction to our motivation as writers and the power of story.Section 2, 'The Mind-set of the Writer', explores how we build on this to establish an evolving practice of writing, from how we keep in touch with the subconscious writer to how we keep on writing and improving.This leads into Section 3, 'The Evolution of Your Writing Process', in which we'll examine more of the mechanics of writing and deepening our writing lives.Section 4, 'Embodying the Writing Life', takes all of this and anchors it in the physical world and in your own embodiment of your writing.Section 5, 'Writing the Soul', looks at how creativity, imagination, wonder and personal mythology transform both the work we do and the people we become as writers, body and soul.Section 6, 'Writing Your Story', brings the themes of the book together: what story do you want to write? What story do you want to become?The book is packed with prompts, inspiration and writing exercises. These are not mechanical or 'how to' exercises but aimed at challenging us to dig deeply into our writing processes and writing lives. Woven throughout are seasonal pauses to help you design your own writing retreats.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-02-03
  • Mått: 170 x 244 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 764 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 420
  • Förlag: Cinnamon Press
  • ISBN: 9781788648011
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Jan Fortune is a writer, mentor and herbalist living in a forest in Finistère. She has a doctorate in feminist theology and is the founding editor of Cinnamon Press. Jan has taught writing courses across Europe and mentors writers across several genres. Her previous publications include creative non-fiction on writing, Writing Down Deep, plus poetry collections and novels, most recently the poetry pamphlet, At world’s end, begin, the novel smiling at grief in a house in a forest where life grows and her memoir, at the heart’s farthest edge. Jan writes at the intersection of story, poetry and herbalism. You can follow her weekly essays on her website Terrain, where she offers a community for those exploring writing and the animate world (Alchemical Gatherings), a monthly meeting to explore herbalism in daily life (Triskelewell) and runs the yearly writing community, Kith: for a different story.Find out more at https://terrain.estate/

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"What story do you want to write? What story do you want to become?' Writing Down Deep is a powerful, multifaceted book that transcends the limits of a standard 'how to write' manual. It is a book that really gets you thinking, not just about your writing but also about yourself and your life - not just about what you want to write, but about who and how you want to be. The emphasis is on making conscious choices, as writers and individuals, rather than allowing ourselves to be dragged along, thoughtlessly, mindlessly, by the busy-ness of modern life.; The coronavirus lockdown was perhaps the perfect time to read a book that advocates stillness, some solitude, and simply 'being', at a time when rushing around 'doing' was, for so many of us, no longer an option. The long, enforced retreat meant we had to find creative ways of living through dark times, tested our inner resources, and required us to find small joys in the midst of suffering, loss and fear. Practices that have been recommended to help us through - walking, yoga, meditation, good diet, fresh air - are what Jan Fortune prescribes as a way of life. Sometimes, reading the book feels like a quiet meditation in its own right, with thoughts coming and going, memories triggered, moments of insight, ideas emerging, particular words or phrases sparking vivid images. And, at the end of each chapter, there are journal exercises and rituals to ground the process.; Fortune stresses the importance of journaling, of the need to perceive creativity as a muscle that needs to be exercised, and writing as a skill that has to be practised regularly. Yes, there is such a thing as natural talent, but it can really only flourish through application. To complement this regular practice of putting pen to paper, she recommends travel as a source of inspiration, providing us with a shift in perspective, and encouraging us to focus on the here and now. Fortune speaks specifically of foreign travel, but the inspiration and shift in perspective can also be achieved by visiting local places and our own space, our 'milltir sgwar', with the curious and observant eye of the traveller.; There is also the journey through the seasons that we all make every year, with its shifting energies and rhythms. To track this,; Writing Down Deep contains eight 'interludes' or 'seasonal pauses' that follow the quarter days and cross-quarter days of the year - 'seasonal reflections on diving deeply into our writing', or indeed into our life. This is just one aspect that makes Writing Down Deep a valuable resource to turn to again and again - it is, of course about writing, but it is also about how to travel through life consciously, nurturing our natural rhythms and giving time to what we love." -- Suzy Ceulan Hughes

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