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Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process

Name: Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process
Author: Susan G. Wooldridge
ISBN: 9780307495549

by Susan G. Wooldridge

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Overview

In this personal, inspiring guide to a creative life, Wooldridge shares her own journey of the heart—from loss and grief to a return to wholeness and joy. Offering poetry exercises, journal writing, and other practices to encourage creative play—including foraging and assembling collages with found objects—Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process will motivate you to reevaluate what’s most important in your world.

Through intimate stories about transforming what life brings your way, the book will help open your heart to more creativity—DELIGHT AND VITALITY—whether it’s through photography, dance, gardening, cooking, songwriting, or poetry. Foolsgold includes dozens of suggestions to help you free the artist within by cultivating a creative lifestyle that will not only expand and inspire you but may also ground and heal you.

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author, Susan G. Wooldridge

Susan G. Wooldridge conducts writing workshops privately, through Poets & Writers, Inc., and with the California Poets in the Schools program. She is the author of PoemCrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words, a Book Sense Pick and a long-running Quality Paperback Book Club selection and Writer’s Digest Book Club selection. She has also written a chapbook of poems, Bathing with Ants.

From the Hardcover edition.