Writing from the Inside Out
Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within
Palumbo, Dennis Year Published: 2000
Pages: 241pp ISBN: 0-471-38266-3
Resource Type: Book
Palumbo encourages writers to use their fears, doubts and stress to construct their stories, instead of trying to overcome them.
Abstract: Writing from the Inside Out introduces a new way of overcoming writer's block, anxiety and procrastination. Written by a psychotherapist, the book encourages writers to use their fears, doubts and stress to construct their stories instead of trying to overcome them. Our human emotions and most basic trials are what go into a good story. Palumbo recommends using your "stuff" to tell your tale, instead of burying it.
Claiming that all writers suffer from self-doubt and anxiety, Palumbo uses a program that has gained much practice in his personal therapy sessions for writers. In Part 1: The Writing Life he explains how our personal issues can cause us to block ourselves, and only by uncovering the true
problem can we benefit from our own experiences. The subsequent sections are called You Are Enough, Grist for the Mill, The Real World, Page Fright, Hanging On, and Dispatches from the Front. While the book offers no quick-fixes or step-by-step solutions, it can help writers of all kinds to identify what is causing them stress and to use it to make their work more human. Palumbo claims that it is these factors that can add depth and meaning to a story.
[Abstract by Mia Manns]
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