Description:
This book, by a psychologist with two decades of investment in writers, depicts his programs for instilling patience, pacing, constancy, and resilience in writing. He shows how writers proceed to comfort and fluency by detailing strategies, rules, and turning points for a diversity of writers--professional, professorial, and otherwise. The result is a thorough-going discussion of what helps writers and a review of the broad literature that program participants found most helpful.
Brief description:
ROBERT BOICE is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a prolific publisher in scholarly journals (often about writing problems), he conducts a private practice of psychotherapy for writers, and he occasionally speaks to groups of writers.