Recommended Bibliography

These books represent a sampling of creative works that Carolyn especially recommends. As an avid collector of practical and motivating books, she enjoys matching the right works to a client's needs or the theme for a workshop or retreat. This bibliography of her favorite books on writing is divided into a Top Five handful, listed first, and a wide variety of others that use writing to promote clarity and well-being.

Top Five Writing Books

Baldwin, Christina
Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
Cameron, Julia
The Artist's Way
Fox, John
Poetic Medicine
Lamott, Anne
Bird by Bird
Ueland, BrendaIf
You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
And More Writing Books
Albert, Susan
Writing From Life
Atchity, Kenneth
A Writer's Time
Ayres, Elizabeth
Writing the Wave
Berg, Elizabeth
Escaping into the Open
Bernays, Anne and Pamela Painter
What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
Bly, Carol
The Passionate, Accurate Story
Brande, Dorothea
Becoming a Writer
Brandeis, Gayle
Fruitflesh
Cameron, Julia
The Vein of Gold
The Right to Write
Capacchione, Lucia
The Power of Your Other Hand
The Creative Journal
Dillard, Annie
Living by Fiction
The Writing Life
Fox, John
Finding What You Didn't Lose
Friedman, Bonnie
Writing Past Dark
Goldberg, Bonni
Room to Write
Goldberg, Natalie
Wild Mind, and Thunder and Lightning
Gray, Dorothy R.
Soul Between the Lines
Hagan, Kay Leigh
Internal Affairs
Heard, Georgia
Writing Toward Home
Holzer, B. Nina
A Walk Between Heaven and Earth
Hughes, Elaine
Writing from the Inner Self
King, Stephen
On Writing
Klauser, Henriette
Writing on Both Sides of the Brain
Put Your Heart on Paper
Write It Down, Make It Happen
Kovacs, Edna
Writing Across Cultures
Lee, John
Writing from the Body
LeGuin, Ursula
Steering the Craft
Mairs, Nancy
Voice Lessons
Maisel, Eric
Fearless Creating
Deep Writing
Metzger, Deena
Writing for Your Life
Nachmanovitch, Stephen
Free Play
Newman, Leslea
Writing from the Heart
Rainer, Tristine
The New Diary
Rico, Gabriele
Writing the Natural Way
Pain and Possibility: Writing Your Way through Personal Crisis
Sher, Gail
One Continuous Mistake
Shaughnessy, Susan
Walking on Alligators
Snow, Kimberley
Writing Yourself Home
Spence, Linda
Legacy
Whyte, David
The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
Zinsser, William
Inventing the Truth
On Writing Well