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Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey

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Metzger does the best job I've seen on jump-starting your creativity, and tying your writing into archetypes. There's lots for the reader who wants to think of writing as a spiritual exercise. BUT for me, by far, its great gift is pragmatic. Between books, or when I feel stuck, or at the beginning of a revision, I take out "On Story" and work through all her suggestions as if it were the first time. I always come up with something new and deeper relevant to THIS story--or I come up with a new story entirely. If you are ready to get past Natalie Goldberg to the goods, here's the book. It helped me tremendously with my last novel.

Banish writer's block forever with Deena Metzger's Writing for Your Life. This boldly titled book is packed with inspirational material for the writer and creative writing teacher.There are many, many books on the market promising to unleash the imaginations of beginning writers - Metzger's actually delivers the goods. Her writing exercises confront, challenge and provoke. They are tickets to the most exciting journey of your life - an exploration of the human heart. If a book could turn a person into a writer, this is the book. Of course, just reading cannot do that trick. Metzger, however, makes the idea of writing so exciting that the blank page no longer intimidates but invites. If I were shipwrecked, I would take Writing for Your Life, reams and reams of paper, enough pens for a lifetime and M F K Fisher's The Art of Eating - but that's another story....

Deena Metzger's book is generous, spiritual, pragmatic and inspiring. Her exercises and prompts may lead you to deep areas within yourself that are surprising and she is a constant, understanding guide. You won't be disappointed.

I borrowed this book so often from two different county libraries that I knew it deserved a place on my bookshelf. I find the organization of material clear and progression of topics done well. I love how Ms. Metzger writes. She is a good exampe of what is possible in our own writing. As I love the personal and self-understanding as a way of growing through this "school of life," this book hits the spot, over and over.

This book wonderfully encourages young people to practice the therapeutic and creative art of journal writing.

of self-knowledge through journals, myths, dreams, story and autobiography. Deena Metzger will have you grabbing your pen over and over as she leads you down the road to the inner territory of the writer.

I found this book heartachingly true. Parts made me laugh, parts made me cry. Jump into it with your hear open and your eyes wide. You won't regret it.

Rachel Elisabeth

Aristotle said "the unexamined life is not worth living." Deena Metzger provides effective and fun tools for examining one's life. I know that my life is awesome!