Writing Without a Parachute

The Art of Freefall

Barbara Turner-Vesselago

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781785921711
• eBook ISBN:
  9781784504434
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Writing & Presentation Skills

Writing Without a Parachute: The Art of Freefall shows both beginning and experienced writers how to get the thinking mind to step aside, so that writing becomes truly creative - a vulnerable and open-hearted engagement with the moment. Here for the first time, writing teacher Barbara Turner-Vesselago shares in print the method by which, for almost 30 years, she has helped hundreds of writers to publish fiction, memoir, non-fiction and poetry worldwide. By means of five simple precepts, she leads the writer step by step into real trust in writing through the art of Freefall: invoking the courage to fall without a parachute into the words as they come. This book can be used for inspiration, as a reference, or as a sustained, twelve-month course in writing. It will help all writers to connect with their deepest intention in writing, and to write with greater authority and grace.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Finding the Way
• Chapter 2: How to Support Yourself as a Writer
• Chapter 3: The Five Precepts
• Chapter 4: Let One Thing Lead to Another
• Chapter 5: Dropping In, with Sensuous Detail
• Chapter 6: Finding Where the Energy Is
• Chapter 7: Life, Writing, and the Ten-Year Rule
• Chapter 8: The Dragons at the Gate
• Chapter 9: A Writer’s Discipline
• Chapter 10: A Poet’s Way of Mind
• Chapter 11: Letting Go; Sinking In
• Chapter 12: Dialogue
• Chapter 13: Opening Out
• Chapter 14: Freefalling with Intention
• Notes
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright
• By The Same Author
• Praise