Gail Sher

A widely admired poet and creative writing instructor offers a handbook for writing based on the precepts of Zen, discussing how this philosophy can help develop creativity, along with the ability to focus artistic direction and energy. Original. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

Four Noble Truths for Writers

One Continuous Mistake

Gail Sher's first guidebook, One Continuous Mistake, showed writers how to develop awareness and deal with distraction through the Four Noble Truths (for writers). Drawing from Sher's thirty years of experience as a Zen Buddhist, psychotherapist, poet, and teacher, The Intuitive Writeris her second enlightening guide for the writer (now seated at her desk) that explains how to shape and sharpen her perceptions, both of her own voice and that of the world around her. An invaluable tool for writers of every level, The Intuitive Writerexplores the wisdom, spirituality, and ultimate uniqueness embedded in the language of one's daily life.

Listening to Your Own Voice

The Intuitive Writer

Writing the Fire offers writers a new and visionary practice: using yoga to release the body's inner intelligence and then support, shape, and inform the creative process. Indeed, "writing is yoga," declares Gail Sher, introducing the "writing asana"--an invaluable new tool for every writer's routine. Her insightful and lyrical book, organized around eight thematic "immersions," plumbs yoga's wisdom heritage. As Donald Moyer, director of the Yoga Room in Berkeley, comments, "She encourages writers to approach their writing with the clarity and presence of yogis, and teaches yogis how to temper their awareness with the heat of words and images." Writing the Fire celebrates the fullest expression of our being.

Yoga and the Art of Making Your Words Come Alive

Writing the Fire!

Based on the Zen philosophy that we learn more from our failures than from our successes, One Continuous Mistake teaches a refreshing new method for writing as spiritual practice. In this unique guide for writers of all levels, Gail Sher—a poet who is also a widely respected teacher of creative writing—combines the inspirational value of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way with the spiritual focus of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Here she introduces a method of discipline that applies specific Zen practices to enhance and clarify creative work. She also discusses bodily postures that support writing, how to set up the appropriate writing regimen, and how to discover one's own "learning personality." In the tradition of such classics as Writing Down the Bones and If You Want to Write, One Continuous Mistake will help beginning writers gain access to their creative capabilities while serving as a perennial reference that working writers can turn to again and again for inspiration and direction.

Broke Aide

The psychological and spiritual memoir of a contemporary woman poet written as haibun (prose combined with haiku). A poetic invocation of life in one of America's first Zen communities (the San Francisco Zen Center) and the breakthrough (Yes Practice) that ended her formal relationship to Zen and enabled her to be herself.

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