The Writing Warrior Discovering the Courage to Free Your True Voice

by HERRING, LARAINE

• ISBN13: 9781590307960
• ISBN10: 1590307968
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-20
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

For every writer facing feelings of doubt toward their work, Laraine Herring offers some practical and useful advice: face your inhibitions. If you can do this, yours"ll gain the confidence to release your true voice and to let your writing free. Herring offers a path to writing with confidence by blending conscious movement aimed at deep relaxation, breath work to focus the mind, and writing exercises for self-exploration. She also teaches how to develop techniques for relaxing into your own voice; for finding ways to write nonjudgmentally and authentically from a place of absolute vulnerability; and for discovering the interconnectedness between your own relationship with writing and with the community as a whole.The Writing Warriorwill not only help you find ways to develop your writing, but also to develop yourself.

Author Biography

Laraine Herring holds an MFA in creative writing and an MA in counseling psychology. She has developed numerous workshops that use writing as a tool for healing grief and loss. She is the author of Lost Fathers: How Women Heal from Adolescent Father Loss and Monsoons, a book of short stories. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in national and local publications. Her fiction has won the Barbara Deming Award for Women, and her nonfiction work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She currently teaches creative writing in Prescott, Arizona.