Write yourself a new life: a life-changing course where you, and your words, are the tutor ...

Contents......Page 6
List of illustrations......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
Seeing your present creative potential......Page 13
Shaking off failure......Page 14
Educating yourself emotionally......Page 18
Being a child, seeing as a child......Page 19
Case study......Page 23
Summary......Page 24
Journaling for self-insights......Page 25
Writing about the journey so far......Page 27
Writing about now......Page 28
Being a poet of your ‘little universe’......Page 30
Writing dialogues......Page 31
Summary......Page 33
Knowing your feelings honestly......Page 34
Learning about narratories......Page 36
Writing narratories about fears......Page 39
What the Greeks thought – cleansing things......Page 40
Creating different points of view......Page 42
Summary......Page 43
Words – giving therapy......Page 45
Ideas – knowing the sanity of your imaginings......Page 47
Compiling a personal anthology......Page 49
Learning from patience/patients......Page 51
Listening to others\' sub-texts......Page 52
Case study......Page 53
Summary......Page 54
Not writing that obituary......Page 55
Writing from the affirmatives......Page 58
Making the little universe spin......Page 59
What and why you love......Page 60
Spinning epics of success......Page 62
Case study......Page 63
Summary......Page 64
Looking from the outside in......Page 65
Your creative point of view explained......Page 67
Handling the camera-work......Page 69
Bringing in the creative scriptwriter......Page 71
Researching the audience of one......Page 72
Case study......Page 73
Summary......Page 74
Introducing workshops......Page 75
Doing the ‘workshop of one’ routine......Page 78
Planning your workshops......Page 79
Sharing your workshops......Page 83
Checking on the skills so far......Page 84
Summary......Page 87
Introducing the new autobiographies......Page 89
Some masters explained......Page 91
How we learn from writers......Page 93
Patterning life-writing......Page 95
Using a classic: Plato’s cave......Page 97
Summary......Page 98
Being creative in all departments......Page 100
Acquiring learning habits......Page 102
Opening up new routes......Page 104
Games for success......Page 105
Using the past in the present......Page 106
Summary......Page 108
Poems and being spontaneous......Page 110
The poet’s notebook......Page 114
Generating images......Page 116
Surprise and shock: inner stories......Page 118
Practising the art of haiku......Page 120
Case study......Page 122
Summary......Page 123
Knowing stories as magic......Page 125
Writing down dreams......Page 127
Metanarratives: reading wider......Page 132
Metanarratives: ourselves in stories......Page 134
Parables for understanding......Page 135
Case study......Page 138
Summary......Page 139
Summary of progress: keeping subject files......Page 140
Sharing it all: starting a read-write group......Page 142
Health and wealth in your writing......Page 144
Applying the skills – beyond your journal......Page 147
Brainstorming in the final workshop......Page 148
Narratories into everyday life......Page 150
Summary......Page 152
Further reading......Page 155
I......Page 159
U......Page 160
Z......Page 161