
Write for Your Life
The Home Seminar for Writers
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Narrated by:
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Richard Neer
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By:
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Lawrence Block
The home version of Lawrence Block's famous seminar for writers!
In the 1980s, Lawrence Block developed an interactional seminar that adapted elements of the human potential movement specifically for writers. For several years, he and his wife, Lynne, traveled the country conducting seminars that focused on the inner game of writing and designed to enable participants to get out of their own way and put their best work on paper.
This book was written to make the seminar available to a larger audience, and at a lower price. Block self-published it in 1986, in an edition of 5,000 copies, which sold out in short order. A few years later, he stopped offering the seminar, having tired of the guru trip and preferring to concentrate on his own writing, and ever since, the book's been impossible to obtain.
When e-books came around, Block arranged for Harper Collins to publish Write for Your Life in that format. But it's the sort of text one wants to be able to page through, and a printed book is just more user-friendly. In the fall of 2013, an assistant found the last box of 25 copies of the 1986 edition in a storage cupboard; Block offered them in a newsletter, and they sold out within three hours.
This is the original book, with a foreword bringing it up to date. With the book, as with the seminar, it doesn't matter at all where you are in your writing career or what kind of writing you do. That's all beside the point. Write for Your Life is about making the best out of what you are and who you are.
And now, with the e-book and subsequent print editions of Write for Your Life continuing to find an eager audience, we’re delighted to make the book available for the first time in audio.
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The title of my review, "A happy surprise," reflects my discovery that the book focuses less on writing and more on developing the mindset to write. As such, Block devotes much of the book to creating affirmations, manifesting results, overcoming self-doubt, and identifying one's limiting beliefs and personal truths. Meanwhile, he spends virtually no time on grammar, finding a publisher, etc. No problem there: Block has covered that ground thoroughly in his other books for writers, but I imagine listeners might be surprised if they buy this book expecting a primer on plot and structure.
A lot of "Write for Your Life" covers similar ground as Rhonda Byrne's 2006 bestseller, "The Secret." If you loved the latter, you'll likely find a similar book tailored exclusively toward writers to be useful and engaging. But if you found "The Secret" to be a little too new-age or metaphysical, you'll likely place "Write for Your Life" in the same camp.
Me? I enjoyed it, and plan to start using the affirmation exercises. I probably won't relisten to this as often as I do Block's other writing books, but that doesn't mean I'm not glad to have it.
A happy surprise
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Audio is a great format for this book
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