Meditations for Writers

by Susan Shaughnessy

This daily motivator for people who write provides insistent inspiration for the creative urge. Writers face resistance in every corner every day. Lack of time, energy, and belief, combined with innumerable distractions and the intense loneliness of the effort, conspire to keep them from their creative work. Meditations For Writers provides the perfect antidote. These 200 personal, quirky, and gem-filled essays explore every aspect of the practice and process of writing - from the pitfalls of perfectionism to learning to write the truth. Susan Shaughnessy has collected an impressive array of fresh and witty quotes from experienced writers and has added to these her own carefully considered ideas about the craft. Every writer who's ever put off their work will appreciate the incentive to get going again.

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 1993

Reviews

[Charley]

Meditation for Writers contains a daily driver for more creative writing with around 200 epithets with each epithet expanded - Thought Provoking, useful and recommended..

[Chris]

I used this book as a prompt for my writing, reading just one passage at a time. The advice didn't always mesh with where I was in my writing cycle, but each quote and subsequent advice felt authentic and supportive. I think I'll use it again and again.