Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.02
EAN: 9780435081249
ISBN: 0435081241
Label: Heinemann
Manufacturer: Heinemann
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: October 16, 1995
Publisher: Heinemann
Studio: Heinemann

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:

[This] is a book for the writer hidden or not so hidden in us all...It is a book for any age, to be read in little bits or all at once, and to be reread regularly.
- Inland

Here is a personal and compassionate book for everyone writers, poets, teachers, lovers of life, and especially those seeking to find their writing voices again or for the first time. It is an autobiographical travelogue moving from a volcano in Hawaii to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and places in between, with writing at its heart.

Writing Toward Home offers practical advice on overcoming some of the obstacles writers of all ages face: writer's block, fear of rejection, confronting silencing critics in your head, finding the time to write. Each short chapter speaks to the larger truths about writing and how to truly live the writer's life: how to become more of a risk taker, how to excavate the past as a source, and how to become an acute observer of the world.

Writing Toward Home is a book that will remind you-and help you remind your students-that the true source of writing is the creative self. In this fast culture when most people have so little time to do anything but menial tasks, it will jumpstart you, it will awaken to you the journey within, it will make you want to write.






Rating: - Waking up your desire to write....
I have to thank my English professor for using this book in her Expository Writing class. It is one of the most excellent books I have read recently. The sweet, thoughtful and friendly tone of Georgia Heard led me through each page of this wonderful book. It will tell you how to notice every subtle thing around to see how much beauty there is in this world. It will also wake up your desire to write by keeping a notebook/journal.

And if you are moved as deeply as I was, someday you will ... Read More

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Rating: - Good For Writers At All Levels
This book is similar in theory and style to Natalie Goldberg's WRITING DOWN THE BONES. The author, Heard, uses home as a metaphor for wholeness one gains from the writing experience. There are 57 short chapters with witty titles, such as "Writing Is Like Making Tortillas," "From an Onion to My Grandmother," "Whispering into the Air," and "Try Woodworking." The best aspect about the book for me is that the act of writing is demystified and seen as a necessary and important human activity. We see this ... Read More

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Rating: - wonderful writing exercises
I used this book in my high school English class, and remembered how helpful this was. I ordered one for myself after I graduated, and now use it to sharpen writing ideas that were stuck in my mind. I am able to get my thoughts down onto paper, and they are more vibrant than what they were in my head. A great read for aspiring writers and poets!

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Rating: - An enjoyable journaling experience.
I purchased this book to help me keep consistent with my journaling. On the days I "drew blank" when I took pen and pad in hand, I read a chapter of this book. I enjoyed the exercises and the experience. I may pull it out again for next year's journal to see what I come up with then.

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Rating: - Discover the Poet in You
This must be the most accessible book on how to live and communicate one's life through poetry simultaneously. As a former Georgia Heard (a most gracious educator whose life is her work) student, I can honestly say I have gained so much valuable insight into my own writing and teaching from using this companion (book). It is a must for those "re-visionists"; those who want desperately to communicate experiences and to see these experiences take on new lives of their own. If you enjoy poetry, you ... Read More

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