Today, I read three more chapters of a new favorite book of mine The Right to Write by Julia Cameron. I started reading the book in March. The book is 233 pages but I have been slowly strolling through the book. Savoring each chapter and anxiously waiting to buy it and add it to my collection. I have renewed it twice since I checked it out from the library. The first time I saw the book was in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I was browsing the writing section and the bright yellow spine of the book and the title caught my attention.
Even better was the first sentence of the first chapter, "I am sitting at a small pine table, facing east toward the Sangre de Cristo foothills." The writer was living in Taos, New Mexico at the time she wrote the book. All the bait I need. I was hooked. Southwest writers and references make my heart skip a beat.
I enjoy books about writing. I am mainly in love with the "art of writing" and practices and technique that writer's convey are important. I used to dream of becoming a professor of composition. A favorite class of mine was composition which everyone else seemed to despise. Not me, I gave it all that I had and showed up excited to write, read and learn more.
To this day I am of the same mind that writing is where it's at. Writing will give me direction, understanding and most of all a reflection of myself. I am slowly returning back to writing more consistently. Writing for myself in private and in public on my blog. As the writer conveys throughout the book, "Writing "rights" things." I wholeheartedly agree.
Additional writing books I recommend:
Writing Down the Bones: freeing the writer within by Natalie Goldberg
Bird by Bird: some instructions on writing and life by Anne Lamott
Even better was the first sentence of the first chapter, "I am sitting at a small pine table, facing east toward the Sangre de Cristo foothills." The writer was living in Taos, New Mexico at the time she wrote the book. All the bait I need. I was hooked. Southwest writers and references make my heart skip a beat.
I enjoy books about writing. I am mainly in love with the "art of writing" and practices and technique that writer's convey are important. I used to dream of becoming a professor of composition. A favorite class of mine was composition which everyone else seemed to despise. Not me, I gave it all that I had and showed up excited to write, read and learn more.
To this day I am of the same mind that writing is where it's at. Writing will give me direction, understanding and most of all a reflection of myself. I am slowly returning back to writing more consistently. Writing for myself in private and in public on my blog. As the writer conveys throughout the book, "Writing "rights" things." I wholeheartedly agree.
Additional writing books I recommend:
Writing Down the Bones: freeing the writer within by Natalie Goldberg
Bird by Bird: some instructions on writing and life by Anne Lamott
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