ASIN: B00IR002D0
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 88
Writing is hard. Beliefs about the need to summon a magical mindset or force yourself to write cause pointless suffering. "A Trail of Crumbs to Creative Freedom" proposes a more playful and forgiving approach.Part narrative and part instruction, “Trail” chronicles the creative recovery of the author, a bipolar novelist. After a manic episode, she swings toward depression. Desperately blocked, she longs to re-experience the creative rush of writing her first novel and imagines a trail leading back to it.She writes: "More than anything, I wanted to go back. Back to the time before my episode when the ideas has flowed freely. I needed a road, a path, a map. Anything would have been welcome."The effort to “go back” sparks insights about the mental game of writing a novel, the nature and source of creativity, and the need to unlearn mental practices that constrict writing. Slowly and ...
