Presents a series of step-by-step exercises and examples to help writers develop their language skills and stimulate creativity, intuition, and imagination.
Foreword
Preface
One: Opening: Letting the Writer in Us Out
Two: Clustering: The Doorway to Your Design Mind
Three: The Receptive "I": The Childhood Origins of Natural Writing
Four: The Self-Reflective Mind: Words and the Brain
Five: Discovering Design: The Trial-Web Shift
Six: The Zen of Improvising: Re-Creations
Seven: Recurrences: The Unifying Thread
Eight: Language Rhythms: The Music in Words
Nine: Images: Inner Eye Directing Writing Hand
Ten: Wedding Word to Image: Metaphor
Eleven: Nuances: The Many Voices in the One
Twelve: Yin Yang: Polarity and Creative Tension
Thirteen: Brevity and Re-Vision: Less Is More
Fourteen: Designing Constellations: Worlds within Words
Bibliography
Index
Writing the Natural Way, first published fifteen years ago, has shown hundreds of thousands of readers how to turn the task of writing into the joy of writing. Completely revised, newly illustrated, and with a wealth of updated, field-tested exercises, this popular classic will help unlock natural writing styles and storytelling abilities.
About the Author
For twenty years,
Gabriele Rico, Ph.D., has led workshops and lectured extensively on the creative process and the application of brain research to learning. A professor of English and creative arts at San Jose State University, she lives in Chicago.
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