Rewrite Your Life, Jessica Lourey
Rewrite Your Life, Jessica Lourey
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Rewrite Your Life
Discover Your Truth Through the Healing Power of Fiction

Author: Jessica Lourey

Narrator: Stephanie Bentley

Unabridged: 6 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/2023


Synopsis

Learn the Art of Storytelling
“A step-by-step guide for writers struggling to create fiction from their life . . . delivers on its promise with such honesty, simplicity, and beauty.”—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author #1 Bestseller in Self-Help, Creativity
Shortlisted for an Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction! Tender, raw, and laugh-out-loud funny, Rewrite Your Life offers both a map and a compass for those seeking to harvest their life experiences to heal, lead a more authentic life, and craft a rich, powerful work of fiction. According to common wisdom, we all have a book inside of us. But how do we select and then write our most significant story—the one that helps us to evolve and invites pure creativity into our lives? In Rewrite Your Life, creative writing professor, sociologist, and popular fiction author Jess Lourey guides you through the redemptive process of writing a healing novel that recycles and transforms your most precious resources—your own emotions and experiences. There’s more to writing that meets the eye. This fact-to-fiction process provides not only the essential building blocks of bestselling novels but is also personally transformative. Based on the process the author developed and field-tested in the wake of her husband’s suicide, Rewrite Your Life is devoted to the practice of discovering, healing, and evolving through fiction writing. It combines research, practical and engaging guidance, and personal experience to meet readers where they are and take their creativity and personal growth to the next level. Rewrite your life teaches you to: Navigate the inner process to telling a story
Use tools and tactics to master fiction writing
Uncover the stories through your experiences
If you have read books such as Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, How to Be Heard, or Story Power, you will love Rewrite Your Life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristin on June 05, 2017

A fabulous guide to writing, both in general and specifically as a way to use one's own emotional difficulties as both subject matter for creative art, and as a pathway to working through things that might otherwise fester. For all Lourey says she doesn't write memoir, there's a lot of memoir in it,......more

Goodreads review by Barred Owl on July 18, 2017

Every author calls on, crystallizes, and shades his or her life experiences to craft fiction, whether they're writing world-bending sci fi or a thinly veiled autobiography. It is precisely those most conflict-ridden moments of our lives--the tragedies, humiliations, and terrors--that shape the best......more

Goodreads review by Shelly on May 11, 2017

This book is YUKON GOLD. And after you read it you will get that joke. :) Seriously, I wish I could give this six stars. It made me laugh out loud multiple times. It made me nod my head and say "yes, yes, yes" multiple times. It made me excited to tackle writing in a new-to-me way (and yet, I had bee......more

Goodreads review by Alisa on July 31, 2017

This book brings out creative ideas and inspirations for writing pieces of all types. As a writer, I came up with several ideas for fiction pieces and poetry. As a family historian, I learned new ways to liven up my journal entries and family stories. The reader is taken through thought provoking ex......more

Goodreads review by Robin on July 27, 2019

Healing Through Writing This is a book I will read more than once. It is filled with wisdom about finding resolutions and peace through writing. It also includes a very workable plan to write and pubish your work. I’m so glad I discovered this book.......more