How to Write While You Sleep

by Elizabeth Irvin Ross

Book Overview

Gives practical advice on breaking writer's block, making the most productive use of writing time, improving one's fiction and nonfiction, and selling one's work. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898791944
• ISBN13: 9780898791945
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Writers Digest Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

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Gives practical advice on breaking writer's block, making the most productive use of writing time, improving one's fiction and nonfiction, and selling one's work In her book, Ross cites poet upon poet - Voltaire, Swinburne, Dante, Goethe, Milton, Blake - who literally dreamed up deathless verse. And it's not just writers who have had profound insights with their eyes closed, their mouths open slightly, and a thin line of drool tracing patterns on the pillow. Ross mentions such scientists as chemist Fridrich Kekule of benzene fame and physicist Niels Bohr. She suggests harnessing your own dream power with meditation exercises like this one- First, aerate your brain a la Dr. Jean. Next, See yourself making coffee. You fill the pot with water, measure the amount of coffee you need, put it in the filter, and put the pot on the stove.... Silently repeat ten times: 'My article/story/book is like the coffee. All the necessary ingredients are simmering in my subconscious mind....' If you do the exercise at bedtime, drop off to sleep."

Very Talented

This book was the most educational and fascinating book I've ever read. I feel like I can write in my sleep.

It helped me with college writing classes.

Before I read this wonderful book, I had trouble brainstorming. It has enabled me to formulate and organize my thoughts into cohesive text. Thanks Mrs. Ross!!!