Writing for Bliss is most fundamentally about reflection, truth, and freedom.
Bravo to Bliss --LINDA GRAY SEXTON, author of Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne SextonUniquely blending inspiring insights with practical advice, Diana guide. --JAMES BROWN, author of The Los Angeles Diaries and The RiverWriting for Bliss is far more than a \'how-to manual\'; it enlightens the creative process with wisdom and a delightful sense of adventure.
Diana Raab is a powerful, wise, intelligent guide well worth our following. --BERNIE SIEGEL, MD, author of The Art of HealingOnly a talented writer who has fought hard to overcome life\'s many obstacles could take her readers by the hand and lead them through the Writing process with such enormous compassion, amazing insight, and kindness.
Diana Raab\'s book gives us the insights by which we can achieve this through her life-coaching wisdom and our writing. --from the foreword by MARK FREEMAN, PhDBy listening to ourselves and being aware of what we are saying and feeling, the true Story of our life\'s past experience is revealed.
May you savor the journey.
I am grateful to Diana Raab for sharing it, and I trust that you will feel the same as you read on. --PUBLISHER\'S WEEKLYWriting for Bliss is about the profound ways in which we may be transformed in and through the act of writing.
She also helps readers with the important step of finding Your form.
The book\'s Seven-Step Plan includes plenty of guidance, including on learning to read like a writer, and on addressing readers as if seated across the table . a voyage of self-discovery.
Her revelations are encouraging to writers who feel they need permission to take...
Most compelling here is Raab\'s willingness to share her intimate stories (e.g., the loss of a relative, ongoing struggles with cancer, a difficult relationship with her mother).
With techniques and prompts for both the seasoned and novice writer, it will lead you to tap into Your creativity through storyTelling and poetry, examine how life-changing experiences can inspire writing, pursue self-examination and self-discovery through the written word, and, understand how published writers have been transformed by writing.
Poet and memoirist Raab (Lust) credits her lifelong love of Writing and its therapeutic effects with inspiring her to write this thoughtful and detailed primer that targets pretty much anyone interested in Writing a memoir.
Writing for Bliss is most fundamentally about reflection, truth, and freedom
