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Tina Welling

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An interviewer asked me recently during a live radio show what my most exciting moment has been as an author. He gave some examples: seeing my books on the shelf of a bookstore, perhaps spotting someone reading one of them. I thought only a second before telling him that the most exciting moment for me happens when I'm all alone writing and suddenly hit on an insight that opens up new understanding for me or when two ideas come together to form a brand new idea.

The outer events are nice, quite satisfying, yet the inner events are why I really write.

And the best thing about being published? That's when I hear from a reader and together we create an exchange between us. I love that incredible intimacy that occurs when two strangers - one writ ...more

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Tina Welling Writer's block is often a result of trying to meet an outcome with our creative work. Outcomes are not our business. We need to stay within ourselves,…moreWriter's block is often a result of trying to meet an outcome with our creative work. Outcomes are not our business. We need to stay within ourselves, writing from an inner experience and desire. Once we try to meet the expectations of others, our energy arcs outward and becomes mental rather than creative. Soon it exhausts itself. So I remind myself of this and write from a very personal place.(less)

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Tina Welling I think writers live more fully just by the nature of our desire to experience life and to find the language to express ourselves in ways to which oth…moreI think writers live more fully just by the nature of our desire to experience life and to find the language to express ourselves in ways to which others can then resonate.(less)

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Average rating: 3.42 · 650 ratings · 119 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature 4.05 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crybaby Ranch 3.04 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cowboys Never Cry 3.09 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fairy Tale Blues 3.07 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned Teaching Journaling to Inmates 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Whatever we can bring into the light of consciousness, we can use in our life’s work. Whatever stays hidden in the dark of our unconscious is using us.”
― Tina Welling, Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature

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“The inmates invariably reflected back to me in exaggerated ways my own issues, my own stopping places, or as Jungians call it, my shadow.
Sometimes I wondered why I so eagerly grabbed my coat, zipped out the door, and drove to the jail on Tuesday nights when it meant that I was forced to confront my flaws.”
― Tina Welling, Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned Teaching Journaling to Inmates

tags: humor, inspirational, memoir

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