One Continuous Mistake : Four Noble Truths for Writers - Gail Sher

One Continuous Mistake

Four Noble Truths for Writers

By: Gail Sher

Paperback | 1 April 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Based on the Zen philosophy that we learn more from our failures than from our successes, One Continuous Mistake teaches a refreshing new method for writing as spiritual practice. In this unique guide for writers of all levels, Gail Sher -- a poet who is also a widely respected teacher of creative writing -- combines the inspirational value of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way with the spiritual focus of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Here she introduces a method of discipline that applies specific Zen practices to enhance and clarify creative work. She also discusses bodily postures that support writing, how to set up the appropriate writing regimen, and how to discover one's own "learning personality".

In the tradition of such classics as Writing Down the Bones and If You Want to Write, One Continuous Mistake will help beginning writers gain access to their creative capabilities while serving as a perennial reference that working writers can turn to again and again for inspiration and direction.

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Most readers know that good books can bewitch for hours, but established writers know that words on the page don't happen by magic - that one per cent of inspiration must be matched by 99 per cent perspiration. In an age when communication skills are at a premium, this is a useful little book which reminds the reader of some basic truths about writing. Its maxims seem self-evident: that writers write; that writing is a process; that you don't know what your writing will be until the end of the process; and that if writing is your practice, the only way to fail is to not write. Sher takes her reader through some common blocks to writing, her approach painfully simple, almost simplistic, but scattered here are enough insights for those who find writing hard to make it worth a read. (Kirkus UK)

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