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Contents
Introduction: Remember Your Body
I. MAKING A FEW PREPARATIONS
CHAPTER ONE Putting on the Robe: Exploring Your Intentions for Writing
CHAPTER TWO Schedules and Rituals to Stretch Your Writing Time
CHAPTER THREE A Stoked Belly: Mustering Perseverance to Keep Writing
CHAPTER FOUR Inspiration and Joyful Concentration: A Matter of Breath
II. SETTING OUT
CHAPTER FIVE Dummies and Self-Study: Creating an Authentic Voice
CHAPTER SIX Practicing Presence: Ways to Heed and Harness Your Senses
CHAPTER SEVEN Writing with Wonder and an Awakened Imagination
CHAPTER EIGHT Embodied Metaphors and Symbols: The Brain’s Yearning for Unity
CHAPTER NINE Bliss in a Toothbrush
CHAPTER TEN Tuning In to Your Prose’s Embodied Sounds
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Pulse of a Sentence and the Yoga of Syntax
CHAPTER TWELVE Straight from the Mouth: Artful Dialogue as Revelation
CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Art of Wandering in First Drafts
III. FACING EMOTIONAL CRAGS
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Dogs, Lovers, and Other Things That Bite: Writing the Truth
CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Inner Heckler Laughs Even at Sages: Facing Fear
CHAPTER SIXTEEN You Are Wide and Full of Contradictions: Writing Based on Your Self
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Stories of Scars and Deep Memories: Writing Beyond Trauma
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Compassion for Your Characters—the Good, the Bad, and the Downright Depraved
CHAPTER NINETEEN Converting Anger into Authentic Writing
IV. LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD
CHAPTER TWENTY Eating Leaves and Other Ways to Re-vision for Form
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Letting Go of Delusion and Control: Revise!
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Friendly Warnings of Inauthenticity
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE For Writers Who Already Practice Yoga
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR A Writers’ Sat-sanga
Appendix of Poses with Contraindications
Glossary of Key Terms
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
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