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jwwells42 's review for:
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
by Brenda Ueland
In If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland writes with great reverence for the free, creative energy she believes is the key to writing well. She shows little love for the duty-ridden conscience that is the epitome of conscientious, work-oriented people. She believes that clinging to the duty and anxiety of daily life squelches creative power, and I tend to agree with her. Of course we must get more and more work done each day, but we can still find time to sit, clear our minds, and write.
Ueland truly believes everyone has talent, and that it only needs to be nurtured, protected from the critics both in the world and in the mind. Because she believes this, she writes from her True self (as she would describe it), and the revelations she has while writing from this place spark on almost every page.
Ueland truly believes everyone has talent, and that it only needs to be nurtured, protected from the critics both in the world and in the mind. Because she believes this, she writes from her True self (as she would describe it), and the revelations she has while writing from this place spark on almost every page.