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Writing Creativity and Soul
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Writing is more than language and story. It also involves the creation of self. Writing is about who we are and who we are becoming. After taking up writing at the age of thirty, Sue Monk Kidd has created some of the world's most treasured stories....
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Writing is more than language and story.
It also involves the creation of self.
Writing is about who we are and who we are becoming.
After taking up writing at the age of thirty, Sue Monk Kidd has created some of the world's most treasured stories. In Writing Creativity and Soul she shares exactly how she did it - from plunging her innermost depths, to voyaging to sacred spaces, to studying the precise methods of the greats and refining her own. Laying her creative journey bare, Sue explores the moments in which she lost her voice and when she found it again, as well as the profound insights she gained along the way.
Part memoir, part philosophical investigation, part advice to aspiring writers, this is a guide to awakening the soul. Everything that readers loved about The Secret Life of Bees is to be found in the pages of Writing Creativity and Soul - the warmth, the fierce intelligence, the wit, the spiritual hunger, the search for beauty and meaning and, perhaps above all, the rebel heart.
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ISBN: 9781837265008
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 23 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 220.0mm
Weight: 321g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
Sue Monk Kidd was raised in the small town of Sylvester, Georgia, a place that deeply influenced the writing of her first novel The Secret Life of Bees. An award-winning and international bestselling author, Kidd also authored The Invention of Wings and The Mermaid Chair, as well as several acclaimed memoirs, including Travelling with Pomegranates and The Dance of the Dissident Daughter. Her newest novel, The Book of Longings was published on April 21, 2020.
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