Write For Your Life: The Ultimate Home Writing Seminar for Aspiring Authors - Perfect for Creative Writing, Memoirs & Novel Development at Home
Write For Your Life: The Ultimate Home Writing Seminar for Aspiring Authors - Perfect for Creative Writing, Memoirs & Novel Development at Home

Write For Your Life: The Ultimate Home Writing Seminar for Aspiring Authors - Perfect for Creative Writing, Memoirs & Novel Development at Home

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The do-it-yourself edition of bestselling author Lawrence Block’s groundbreaking seminar for writers! In the 1980s, bestselling author Lawrence Block developed an innovative, interactional seminar that adapted elements of the human potential movement, specifically for writers. For several years, he and his wife, Lynne, traveled the country conducting workshops that focused on the inner game of writing and were designed to enable participants to get out of their own way and put their best work on paper. Written to ensure the course material would be made available to the largest audience possible—and at a lower price—Block self-published this book in 1986, in a print run of 5,000 copies, which sold out in short order. A few years later, he stopped offering the seminar, having tired of the guru trip and preferring to concentrate on his own writing. For years afterward, WRITE FOR YOUR LIFE was nearly impossible to obtain.When ebooks became popular, Block arranged for HarperCollins to publish WRITE FOR YOUR LIFE in its digital format. Still, he continued to hear from fans mourning the print edition.This is, after all, the sort of text one wants to be able to page through, making the printed book more user-friendly. In the fall of 2013, an assistant found the last box of the 1986 edition in a storage cupboard; Block offered them in a newsletter, and all 25 copies sold out within three hours.This is the original text, with a new foreword bringing it up to date. With the book, as with the seminar, it doesn't matter at all where you are in your writing career or what kind of writing you do. That's all beside the point. WRITE FOR YOUR LIFE is about making the best out of who you are and where you are.

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I started a blog a few years ago but found myself being discouraged thinking I wasn't good enough, or who would actually read my blog then to make matters worst I started reading other local blogs and concluded that they were definitely better after all they have readers and a lot of social media interaction s.Needless to say I've been unmotivated and took my site down. I have however been on a mission to learn all I can about writing since it's something I loved and done since I was a child (only in the sense of personal journaling - but I do enjoy it very much). Anywho I bought a book a few years ago but never got around to reading until two days ago, the author credits her confidence and significant improvement as a write to "Write for your Life" imagine my excitement as I hunted and found this book yesterday.I stayed up much of the night reading the book and while I haven't done the exercises I will today as I prepare to read the book for the second time.It's simplicity is attractive and made me even more interested in finishing the book. The ideas, suggestions and exercises are practical. I've come to the conclusion that in order for me to write my blog successfully I needed to be a better writer, prob take a class or write things people are interested in or be more likable or more social, etc the list goes on. But as I read this little precious book I started to realize that those were all stories I told myself because I'm afraid and don't believe I'm good enough, among other things.I may never write a book who knows - but I'm more motivated and excited than I've been in quite a while. I've sent out 20 text messages with screenshots of the book this morning to friends whom are interested in writing professionally because I believe this book will benefit them.I don't know what your goal is for looking up this book but I want to assure you it's not a waste of money. When you finish reading this book I know you'll walk away with something - it's not that this book offers new and unheard of ideas but it's the honesty and simplicity in which the book is presented that makes you want to listen. And I never review the books I purchase here (and I purchase a few a week) because I'm always afraid my review may not be good but here I am doing the exact thing I'm afraid of because I really do believe you'll benefit in some way from "Write For Your Life"Good luck!