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

Starting Your Book illuminates what can come up when you're even thinking about writing a book, and provides surprising, profound, and effective ways to prepare yourself to receive the writing that “just comes.”

By leading you through the process of setting down on paper the gifts your heart brings you, Starting Your Book anchors you in the beauty of the writing and the exaltation of the writing experience, so you can find your way back into this place again and again as your book progresses.

"In any creative act, there is a call to the unknown. Some people meet this call by climbing mountains in the outer world. Others stand at the rim of their inner being and make their way inside, accounting for what they discover and bringing back the gifts of the journey along with the account.”— Naomi Rose

With a Foreword by Creativity Portal contributor Shelley Klammer.

Contents include: Answering the Call * Preparing the Ground * Embracing the Blank Page * The You Who Writes * Coming Through the "Fear Barrier" * Slowing Down and Listening Inside, to Make Room to Receive What’s There * Discovering Your Unique Creative Pathways * Engaging the Linear and Artistic Brains: The Best of Both Worlds * Are You a “Top Down” or a “Bottom Up” Kind of Writer? (Or Somewhere in Between?) * Knowing Your Equipment * How This Book Was Written.... and more.

Print edition: $17.95 • E-book edition: $12.95

PLUS:

The Process Notebook: A hands-on companion to use with Starting Your Book. Special gift edition e-book free to Creativity Portal® buyers of Starting Your Book.

For those who want to expand the wisdom and guidance of Starting Your Book in a direct, hands-on way, this deep self-discovery tool is designed to help you become aware of what's inside you that you can cultivate and draw from to write your book(s) with presence, self-awareness and gratitude, ease, the thrill of discovery, and, frequently, joy.

Working with this Process Notebook will show you what brings you closer to yourself so you can give increasing attention to that. Imagine what it would be like to know: What inspires you * What nourishes you * How you like to write * What your innate strengths are * What you've never really developed ~ and can *How to tune to yourself * That you can count on yourself * That you are an inexhaustible well of deep, inspired, connected writing every time you sit down to write!

Starting Your Book opens the door. The Process Notebook helps you go through it.

Free gift edition for Creativity Portal® buyers only!

PLUS:

The opportunity to work with a healing flower essence remedy at a special price specifically designed to go with Starting Your Book, “You Are the Treasure You Seek.”

Flower essences are literally the essence of a flower's particular healing quality. A specific flower essence will work for you if its “medicine” is what your being needs. This remarkable flower essence remedy, uniquely designed by Rose Press (Rose Press Flower Essence Remedy for Writers™), will help you digest the nourishment of Starting Your Book in a (literally) embodied way.

A lovely distillation and medicine for your doubts and fears about book-writing, “You Are the Treasure You Seek” will have you marveling at the limitless inner treasures you have to draw from, and enhance your inspiration, courage, and creative play as you write.