Starting Your Book: a Guide to Navigating the Blank Page by Attending to What's Inside You

A "book whisperer" charts a path to finding your own path through writing a book - and revealing your true nature in the process. Writing a book is an organic growth that can only come out of you, not a formula you need to learn from someone else. This deeply encouraging book about writing a book assumes that it's what's inside the writer that makes the book valuable and the process of writing a book worthwhile. Where most writing books focus on the product alone, this intimate companion highlights the person doing the writing. As you get more and more acquainted with what's inside you, you'll find that writing your book flows easily, surprising and frequently delighting you with what - and who - you find. STARTING YOUR BOOK will show you how to discover, treasure, and use what is in you to write the book of your heart - which will naturally translate to the hearts of your readers. "What Naomi does superbly is to evoke the creative and articulate in each person who works with her - to such a degree that each one is surprised at his/her own talent for expression." - Gay Luce Naomi Rose is a writer, book developer, and publisher in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the creator of "Writing from the Deeper Self" (www.essentialwriting.com).