Waterlines: Writing Lessons from a Life Afloat (Craft, Creativity and the Writing Life) - Softcover
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Synopsis
What happens when a storyteller trades land for water — and lets the slow rhythms of a narrowboat teach him how to write, live, and listen?
Every writer seeks the perfect balance: mastering craft while keeping the joy alive. Aboard Patience, his narrowboat on England’s canals and rivers, Richard Beynon reflects on how the patterns of water, weather and narrative intertwine, revealing how the craft of writing often mirrors the currents of the world around us.
Waterlines gathers the lessons of that life afloat — patient herons teaching the art of attention, stubborn locks revealing the power of persistence — into a lyrical blend of memoir, storytelling craft, and inspiration for writers and creatives. Each short essay explores how observation becomes description, how patience shapes voice, and how story grows from stillness.
Whether you write with publication in mind or simply for pleasure, Waterlines will remind you that great stories don’t come from forcing words, but from learning to flow with them. It invites you to slow down, listen, and rediscover the quiet joy that fuels the act of writing itself.
For readers of Annie Dillard, Anne Lamott, Natalie Goldberg, and Julia Cameron — and for anyone who finds in words their way of navigating the world — Waterlines offers a fresh voyage along the canals of craft and creativity.
If you’ve ever sat before a blank page and felt the tug of something deeper, step aboard. The journey begins here.
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About the Author
Richard Beynon is a storyteller whose career was launched when, at the age of seven, he contracted polio and struck a bargain with his hospital wardmates: they would strap his brace onto his leg - and he would tell them stories.Since then, he has spent his life telling stories in countless forms - as a journalist, and writing for both the page and the screen. He has written over 1,200 scripts for drama and comedy, led dozens of writers' rooms, and served as head writer on some of South Africa's most popular soaps.In 2006, he co-founded All About Writing with novelist Jo-Anne Richards. Together with their partner, Trish Urquhart, they have helped thousands of writers take their stories seriously - many of whom have gone on to publish award-winning work.For fifteen years, he lived for months each year on his narrowboat, Patience, navigating the rivers and canals of England and Wales. From that watery vantage, he wrote more than 500 motivational essays about writing and life.Now based on a houseboat on the River Great Ouse in Bedford, UK, he continues to write his Monday Writing Motivations-delivered fresh every Monday. www.richardbeynonbooks.com
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