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

by Deena Metzger

Book Overview

Writer and therapist Deena Netzger enables writing students to heal what is fragmented, injured, or suppressed within them so they can experience the wonder of self-knowledge and the joy of creation.

In this resource, Metzger helps students explore their creativity through journals, autobiography, dreams, and myths. She offers stories and suggests numerous exercises to show students how writing shapes and informs our lives, and how "silence"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062506129
• ISBN13: 9780062506122
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A gift for any writer who wants to go deeper

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.

wonderful for teens!

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

Experience the wonder

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.

This seven-novel writer's bible for getting off the dime

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.

Beware - read this book and you may start writing your own!

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....