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Author:   Dr Cindy Shearer (CIIS, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9781350455443

ISBN 10:   135045544
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   22 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: How to Read this Book and Why Part One: Works in Progress, Writing Lessons Chapter One · Stay With It: The Art of Being (Revisited) or Learning to Write by Dance · Reflection · Prompt Chapter Two · Elliot: Found and Loss: An Essay on Seeing, Failure, Imagining, Death, and Mentorship · Reflection · Prompt Chapter Three · It is Okay to Quit or How to Stop Writing and Become a Writer, An Essay in Four Parts · Reflection · Prompt Chapter Four · What is Creative Writing? A Personal Essay in Two Parts: Writing as Visual Art and My Life in Baseball: An Aesthetic of Creative Writing · Reflection · Prompt Chapter Five · Memory Boxes: A Collage Essay on The Writing Process · Reflection · Prompt Part 2: Tools and Choices Chapter One: Work in Progress, Choices, and Decisions Sections: · In process: What am I doing? How am I relating? · What are you ready to create? Writing is Developmental · Section Three: Writing or Bookmaking? When am I in process, when am I constructing work? Chapter Two: Sustainable Practices Sections: · Writing is Real and That Makes it Hard (Maybe): Reflecting on what you have to say—in a work? In your body of work? · Inquiry + Meaning Making = You Decide · A Writer’s Work, A Writer’s Life: An Interrelationship · Listening (or Not) To What Others Say: Coaching Yourself and Being Coached Chapter Three: Tools You Can Rely on: An Introduction Sections: · Six Unexpected Tools: Relationship, Play, Translation, Being at Home, Mending, Seeing · Failure is a Tool. Please use it. Part 3: Saying Yes to A Sustainable Process Sections: · Looking for Lessons: A Path to Your Process · Making a Toolbox · Writing is an Ally · Defining Your Work. Who and What Informs Your Writing? · Your Sustainable Practices: Adding to Your Resources Bibliography Index

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This is for every writer who has experienced failure or discouragement, who has wondered how they can ever start again. Shearer reminds us, through her own experience, her wisdom and through a range of creatively salutary exercises, that writers of every stripe can indeed come back to their art and stay with it. * Tanya Perkins, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University East, USA *

Author Information

Cindy Shearer is the founder and program chair for the writing MFA program at California Institute of Integral Studies, USA. She is the author of Ten Not So Tangible Tools For Writers, a work of text and image developed in the early 2000s and published Mission at Tenth, the MFA writing/arts journal. She has served as co-producer of the podcasts Artifact and Meaning Making.

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