Writing Without a Parachute: The Art of Freefall
Brand: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Categories: Books, Reference, Writing, Research & Publishing Guides



Dimensions: 6.85 x 0.39 x 9.25 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1785921711
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1785921711
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Print length: 192 pages
Publication date: January 19, 2017
subtitle: Paperback – January 19, 2017
author: Visit Amazon's Barbara Turner-Vesselago Page search results Barbara Turner-Vesselago
review: Editorial Reviews Review This book has something most instruction completely misses: a practical set of exercises and explanations to help with the imaginative act of original composition. It will be useful for beginners, superb for writers in the middle of their training and an absolute lifesaver for pros who have lost their nerve. I shall recommend it to all my students and many of my friends. -- Mimi Thebo, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Bath Spa University Here is a book that charts new territory, inviting the writer to fall with confidence into the ether of the creative self in order to write with skill and authenticity. -- Louise Green, Editor, Lapidus Journal Read this book whether you want to be a professional writer or more likely, someone - basically all of us - who needs to find and hear their own voice - and let it flow - so that your life will also flow. -- Richard Moss, Author of The Mandala of Being and Inside-Out Healing Book Description Guide to unlocking your creative writing with the Freefall writing technique About the Author For the past three decades, Barbara Turner-Vesselago has been leading highly effective Freefalll Writing Workshops throughout the English-speaking world. She brings to the teaching of writing a unique combination of writing and teaching skills, literary knowledge, psychological expertise and insight that has made her workshops popular in centres as diverse as England's Rising Dragon Tai Chi School and the Yale University School of Medicine. An expert in modern literature, she has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and has taught at Girton College, Cambridge, the University of Jos (Nigeria), and the Universities of Toronto, Washington and Western Australia. But having been mentored by Canadian writer, W.O. Mitchell, at the Banff School of Fine Arts in the Canadian Rockies, she left academia to write, and to teach writing. In 1995, she was designated one of six "Voices of the Nineties," by the University of Western Australia. Barbara Turner-Vesselago's novel manuscript, No News But Kindness , was chosen a finalist for the Chapters/Robertson Davies Book Prize (Canada) and Britain's Short Story Radio First Chapter award. She is the author of Skelton at Sixty (The Porcupine's Quill, Canada) and Writing Without a Parachute: The Art of Freefall (Vala Publishing, Jessica Kingsley Publishers UK; Finch Publishing, Australia). She lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Read more