Write Your Heart Out

This is the second book I have read from Rebecca McClanahan and I love it. It is a lovely read. Easy to understand and it is inspiring. If you want a book that really shows you how to write with passion and not just to get the job done, or please a certain market, this is the book. It reminds you of why you write in the first place.

Write Your Heart Out was on the bedside table while I was in Florida on vacation two summers ago. I picked it up, read it, thought about it all the way home, ordered my own copy, began to write, and just published my first book. The inspiration, the encouragement, the gentle nudges in Write Your Heart Out are wonderful. I'm going to recommend it to my writing class.

Rebecca McClanahan shows you how to turn your personal experiences, ideas and feelings into stories, essays, poems and memoirs. She gets you to release your inner self and just simply 'Write Your Heart Out.' As you read McClanahan helps you learn to write deeply, honestly and imaginatively about important people, events and emotions in your life, and set you on a path of dramatic work of art and self-discovery. When you're done you have purge all the cobwebs out of your system and let all your creative energy flow onto the page. She gives you the courage to explore and experience the things what matters to you. Everything that you write in your journal is the basis to public writing. McClanahan prepares you for that writing process. This book gives one inspiration of finding new ways of looking at the way they see things in the world, writing more descriptively and improve on their technique. It's great for a beginner just getting started or someone who need encouragement to writing better.

This book is a MUST for anyone who wants to write anything from the deepest pieces of your heart. Also, it helps discover your true and unique selp, so that you can enjoy the moment of your being and the rest of your life.

"When all else is dissolving around you, your words are forming."As someone who teaches writing from the perspective of using history, personal and collective, to heal the psychic wounds of life, I found this the most significant statement in this well written and practical guide to tapping heart knowledge.McClanahan's approach to ways to get to where you can write 'your heart out' is logical, comfortably paced, and begins with the important question as to why we write.She notes how the writer's desk is anywhere that observations can be collected; images, ideas, news noted in private writings that capture "your personal heartbeat."These writings, journals, diaries become the resource field for your public writings and it is important that she expresses that your joy, as well as your pain, should be brought to them.Moving the reader through suggestions that help to jog memory, notice detail, provide an historical record, or capture a passage journey, she takes you to the realm of truth telling and provides devices to excavate those truths.It is from those found, and examined, truths; from finding your past, that your writing opens new vistas to your present, and to your future.Writing Your Heart Out is a good place to begin the journey.