Soul Between the Lines: Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through Writing

By Dorothy Randall Gray

Book Overview

In the tradition of Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way", Gray presents an empowering, creative technique which shows how to use the spirit as a source of creativity, transformation, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380791420
• ISBN13: 9780380791422
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Enough Ideas to Keep You Going into Your Wild Old Age

Creativity defines our individuality, it's not an unnecessary decoration, like too many bows on a dress. Of course it's in writing, painting, music; it's also in baking a cake, building a distribution system for auto parts, or talking to your cat, and it's in the choices we make in books or music or bed sheets. You're already creative, whether you admit it or not, or even if your grade school grammar teacher wanted you dead. Writing doesn't have to be the goal here, the idea is to use writing to brain-storm your mind and get it to open, and then turn it to any creative endeavor. Ms. Gray's book has enough muscle and exercises to drag something out of you. Even mundane results can provide joy, and you might just create something extraordinary that may, just for a moment, let someone transcend the ordinary world. One note of caution, some of the exercises tended to get me reminiscing about every dreary thing that ever happened to me. Writing for therapy leads inward and can mire me in self-pity. It may be healing, but creativity expects you to move beyond the pathos and into a larger world where it is the therapy itself.

A Powerfully Incredible Book

Wow. My life, my writing, my spirit have all been unmistakenly transformed by this incredible book. I have never seen so many stimulating writing exercises. But more than that, Soul Between The Lines is about creating the life you want, living in the fullness of your spirit, and empowering yourself in so many wonderful ways. I loved the way Dorothy writes, the way she shares herself, and teaches you how to transform the atmosphere in and around you. It is the most inspiring book I have read in years, better than Julia Cameron or Natalie Goldberg. No wonder people like Iyanla Vanzant and Larry Dorsey endorsed this book. It is a treasure beyond belief. Everyone should have this book!

sprituality meets crativity in a wonderful package

Soul Between the Lines is a MUST have for any writer-to-be that aspires to synthesize creativity and spirituality. Since it is understood that true creativity comes from the Creator, a successful writer must learn how to be a passive agent for the Spirit and Gray definitely captures this message in her book. Fantastic!