May 5, 2008

I’m often asked what writing books are my favorites–and which I recommend. There are hundreds, but this week I’ll highlight a few that I read and re-read for inspiration.
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Writing from the Inside Out by Dennis Palumbo is about “transforming your psychological blocks to release the writer within.” It’s not a how-to book with rules and formulas, but it provides valuable insights and practical tools for the working and/or would-be writer. It covers all the things that can (and have) stopped writers in their tracks: procrastination, doubt, fear of failure, loneliness, envy, the rejection blues, keeping your perspective, burnout, commitment to your writing, and other daily struggles of writers. You can tell when a book for writers has been written by an author who has actually dealt successfully with these issues—and Writing from the Inside Out is definitely one of those books. Palumbo has some of the best suggestions I’ve read for dealing with “real life” and maintaining your writing life in spite of it. Perhaps because he is also a licensed psychotherapist, he hits the nail on the head when it comes to dealing with these issues—and he manages to inject a good dose of humor with it!

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