2026 Fresh Start:
Here's a good book for writers, dear blog friends - Writing Creativity and Soul by Sue Monk Kidd
She wrote The Secret Life of Bees, The Book of Longings, and more.
Now she imparts a part memoir, part philosophical investigation, part advice to aspiring writers, and touchstone for the spirit. "If you encounter writing infused with soul, you know it". "It feeds you somewhere inside...our internal revolutions, our reach for our true selves, our struggle to write unsayable things with brave voices". cover blurb.
If you love Sue Monk Kidd's writing, then you need to enjoy this book. She writes about her struggles to become the writer she knew she could be, while she was a mother raising kids. She writes about her doubts, her fears, and the time it took to truly acknowledge herself as a writer. She imparts some writerly wisdom, but it's really just common sense. You - if you truly wish to be a writer- must do the work. Think, sit, write, research, read and repeat. And repeat. And repeat. It's hard work.
Sue Monk Kidd said she has to work from an outline. She has to really know her characters - what do they want? Where shall the story end?
She bares her writerly soul in this book and as you read this, it is as if you are hanging at a kitchen table and just talking. I really enjoyed this memoir and it has inspired me to take up the pen again. We'll see what happens in 2026.
Happy Writing, my friends.
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