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The Art of Fiction Writing
Or How to Fall Down the Rabbit Hole
Without Really Trying
by Emily Hanlon
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A book on writing that
gives you easy-to-use techniques,
fiction writing prompts and creative
writing tips while
opening the doorways to the passion of your
imagination.
End
Writing Blocks!
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"For the past 17 years
I've been struggling to write fiction, to write vivid, passionate
fiction that engages both the mind and the heart. Working with
Emily's process in
The Art of Fiction Writing
has freed me to be able to do that and I am eternally grateful to
her for it."
~ Susan Elizabeth Davis
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 What's
falling down the rabbit hole all about?
What happens when Alice tumbles into Wonderland? Nothing is as it seems: Big
is little, little big, cats talk and she meets strange, frightening and
alluring characters.
Wonderland as Metaphor
Falling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland is a perfect
metaphor for the creative journey which can never take place in the “real”
or conscious world. Writing, whether it be fiction, poetry or nonfiction,
finds its origins in the dark, fertile chaos of the unconscious. If you
don’t meet Cheshire cats and Mad Hatters, Tweedledees and Tweedledums, mad
queens, dragons, flying monkeys and monsters, or your version of the above,
then you have not fallen. This is not to say you have to be writing fantasy
or horror to open to your unconscious, but as you will see, the journey for
the writer must hold metaphorically a good sprinkling of both.
From The Art of Fiction Writing
by Emily Hanlon
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The
Real Enemy of Your Writing is Your Inner Critic!
Lots of books on the market lead you to believe that if you outline your story, write
"what you know", get a great opening paragraph, or "figure out" what
your character looks like, you will be on your way to
writing a great story. Some promise that if you just follow their
method, you will have an entire book in 19 days!
I can tell you in no uncertain terms that tactics like that lead
you nowhere. Which is why I wrote this book. After coaching
people just like you for over twenty-five years, I know the
steps to unleashing great characters, stories and the passionate,
creative writer in you. The Art of Fiction Writing acts as a guide into
your creative unconscious, which is the doorway to exciting writing,
characters and stories.
There is great freedom for you as a writer in "falling down the rabbit
hole" into the creative unconscious, which is very different from
approaching your writing from the narrow confines of your mind. Why? The mind
is the home of conscious, rational, linear thought, judgment, language
and evaluation. The mind is also the home of your Inner Critic.
If
you rely on your mind to develop your stories, you leave yourself open
to the prison created by your Inner Critic-- that voice inside your
head that says things like, "Not good enough... never good enough...
you'll never be a writer. Go clean the house! Who wants to read
anything you write..." Sound familiar?
So, what's the answer? How do you escape the Inner Critic?
Fall down the rabbit hole into your creative unconscious! The Inner
Critic won't follow you there.
Why?
The Inner Critic is terrified of the creative unconscious because it
is the home of feelings, emotions, images and it is chaotic and
unexpected. The Inner Critic likes order and loves the status quo,
which is antithetical to the creative unconscious. That's why if you
"fall down the rabbit hole" the Inner Critic won't follow you! Free of
the Inner Critic, you have the possibility of experiencing real
creative freedom and passionate stories awaits you!
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"Emily's
workbook and tapes are helping me get past the part of my mind that
writes rational, predictable, orderly and boring work. The more I
use The Art of Fiction Writing, the more I'm discovering scary,
exciting, surprising and unpredictable sources of creativity. I feel
as if I'm getting a lot of guidance in recognizing and getting past
the mo nsters that guide the gate to truly creative writing."
~ Amy Meltzer |
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I'll Guide You Through the Entire Process ... From Start to Finish
The Art
of Fiction Writing is a workbook with two audio tapes...
I wrote this book with you in mind. I imagine us sitting together
in my living room,
as I have done with countless students over the years. On page 1 of
the Introduction, I invite you into my home by describing my living room. Then,
to make our journey
together more intimate, I
ask you the very
same questions that I ask my private students. But that's not all. I
have also included two audio tapes with 5 different journeys so
that you can hear my voice. When I made the tapes, I imagined you were
there, listening to me.
Each selection on the tape is different in style and content from
the one before and from the workbook itself.
Purpose of this Workbook
The processes and
exercises in this workbook are designed to get you out of your
conscious mind and the tyrannical hold of your Inner Critic,
and allow you to fall down the Rabbit Hole into the realms of
the creative unconscious—deeper than you have ever gone
before. One of my students put it this way:
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"When I reflect on where
I started and where I am now, I know that the journey I
have taken through my writing is the most valuable
experience of my adult life. I went into this place
where I dared to peel away all or most of my defenses, a
little at a time, until what is left is the core of what
makes me me. It is alive, it throbs with passion and
anger, it can feel sorrow and elation; it lives and
breathes because it is me."
~ Linda Rizzotto |
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"Having read and studied
many books on the difficult art of writing, and having worked with Emily
on a novel of my own, I recommend her approach, so beautifully outlined
in her current works, as the most creative, interesting, and encouraging
I have found.”
Nancy Wallace Henderson
Novelist and Playwright
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Emily Hanlon
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