Learning to write starts with learning to do one big thing: pay attention to the world around you, even though just about everything in modern life makes this more difficult than it needs to be. Developing habits and practices of observing, and writing down what you notice, can be the first step away from the anxieties and doubts that can hold you back from your ultimate goal as a writer: discovering something to say and a voice to say it in.
The Writer's Eyeis an inspiring guide for writers at all stages of their writing lives. Drawing on new research into creative writers and their relationship with the physical world, Amy E. Weldon shows us how to become more attentive observers of the world and find inspiration in any environment.
Including exercises, writing prompts and sample texts and spanning multiple genres from novels to nonfiction to poetry, this is the ideal starting point for anyone beginning to write seriously and offers refreshing perspectives for experienced writers seeking new inspiration.
Amy E. Weldonis Associate Professor of English at Luther College, USA. She is the author of
The Hands-On Life: How to Wake Yourself Up and Save the World(2018) and has published numerous essays in edited collections and stories and reviews in journals including
Orion,
Los Angeles Review of Books,
The Common, Midwest Gothic,and
The Carolina Quarterly.Introduction: Something to Say and a Voice to Say It In
Chapter One: Writing and the World Beyond Your Head
Chapter Two: Fighting the Brain, Writing the Brain: Neuroscience for Writers
Chapter Three: Building A World on the Page
Chapter Four: Your Voice on the Page
Chapter Five: Workshops and Revision
Chapter Six: Loving the Path
Appendices
Index
![The Writer's Eye Observation and Inspiration for Creative Writers [Hardcover]](/itemImage/2/6/2/6/2_1362233.jpg "The Writer's Eye Observation and Inspiration for Creative Writers [Hardcover] xxx")