Synopsis

With original cover and inside art by Ray DiCapua

Here's what reviewers and writers are saying.

"...unveils a full card deck of magic tricks for hacking creativity and flow." --Marie Pace, PhD, Peacebuilding consultant, coach, and author

"Writers seeking inspiration will appreciate the playful and engaging creative exercises..." --Foreword Clarion Review

"...provides tremendous practical insight, shedding new light on common writing challenges, such as distraction, revision, and finding one's voice." --Kirkus Reviews

Writing with Your Ever-Present Muse
75 catalytic reads, wisdom pockets, and living experiments

What if you could connect to your creative source anytime, anywhere?

This practical and poetic workbook will help you uncork your creative wellspring, quicken your writing flow-state, and maneuver around speed bumps like self-criticism. feeling stuck, and more. You will also be shown how to claim your muse and build an intimate, lasting relationship with it.

We've inherited a limited, age-old belief that the muse is something beyond our reach, here one day and gone the next, and that we are at the mercy of its whims. Not so.

This book re-casts the muse as a quality of your ever-present awareness. This means your muse is with you at all times, closer than your breath--prompting you while you write, collaborating with you even when you are not writing.

With practice, you will become more skillful at listening to your muse. And at picking up the signals it sends through channels of awareness: your thinking mind, your senses, your inmost heart, your gut, your energy, your dream-life, your intuitive mind, your imagination, your lived truth, and more.

Writing with Your Ever-Present Muse is grounded in the author's deep-rooted experience as a writer, writing coach, and workshop leader as well as explorations of human development, integral approaches, and wisdom traditions.

Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of the writer's life. Opening to Wonder drops you into the writer's page. Risking the Heart leads you through the writer's journey. Following the Energy immerses you in the writer's process. Freeing the Mind lifts the curtain on the writer's theatre. Expressing with Presence brings you home to the writer's voice.

The book includes 75 three-part sets. The catalytic reads--inviting you to "experience this"--let you feel into a deeply attuned way of writing. The accompanying wisdom pockets--inviting you to "contemplate this"--offer fresh angles on writing. And the living experiments--inviting you to "try this"--connect you with your muse. They guide you through a 5-step process that includes brief bursts of free-writing and an empowering feedback approach.

Get a taste and feel of Writing with Your Ever-Present Muse by peeking inside.

Whatever your writing context and genre, this book will unleash your writing onto the page, and perhaps into the world.

History and personal experience tell us that writing is a transformative medium for self, readers, and society. This timely and powerful book speaks to a world that needs creative voices flowing from a greater sense of humanity and wholeness.