Writing for Self-Discovery: a Personal Approach to Creative Writing

Writing can be a powerful aid to self-awareness. This book explores the creative process through a seies of innovative techniques and exercises designed to help you gain a deeper understanding of your inner self. Simple exercises will help you focus on writing about your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Then, a series of more sophisticated writing techniques will assist you in unlocking the creativity within. In more than 100 exercises, you will experiment with flow writing, clustering, modeling, and image exploration, and tap into your memory, dreams, relationships, and imagination en route to self-expression. This book reviews the writing of such celebrated authors as Maya Angelou, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, showing you how personal themes resonate in their work. It also provides useful guidelines for keeping a creative journal, expanding your raw writing into larger works, and exploring themes ideal for in-depth personal writing in the future.