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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Recommended Reading-CREATIVITY

CREATIVITY

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity,
by Julia Cameron





Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
by Natalie Goldberg




Walking on Alligators: A Book of Meditations for Writers,
by Susan Shaughnessy






Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life,
by Anne Lamott






Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distractions and other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life,
by Bonnie Friedman
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