Can Your Book Heal the World?

It is true that much of my advice about writing and getting published is practical, intellectual and market-oriented. In the interest of providing a balance, I direct your attention to Naomi Rose's recent article at the Creativity Portal. In Your Book Can Heal the World: Looking in the Mirror of Our True Nature, she makes a good case for authenticity in writing, despite the industry's apparent fixations on what she calls the 3 P's of "Promotion, Profitability, and Platform."

The healing aspect comes in when you bring your deeper Self into the telling. And you do this by:
1. learning how to listen to what’s inside your heart,
2. trusting its (often initially nonverbal) ways of making its message known to you, and
3. learning how to translate that inner sensing into written language that
* carries out the deeper Self’s intention, and also
* naturally rises into metaphor and poetry