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Your "Writing from the Deeper Self"
Newsletter
Taking out the mystery
about what it takes to write a book
and making room for the Mystery
that's at the heart of the process.
The Writing from the Deeper Self (WFDS) newsletter comes out (almost always) once a month. To subscribe, please send me an email by clicking on the email address, above.
Below you will find the archives of the WFDS newsletter, in order of most recent first. The text of the current month (the overflow from the newsletter) appears first. Then previous issues are archived after that. To read the archived issues, please select the one that interests you and click to be connected to that page.
Writing from the Deeper Self is a unique approach to writing that starts from your inner experience, called in by your heart, and only later finds its way into words. Because this process accesses deep inner knowing, it is trustworthy (you never have to ask "Is it good?" because your reference point is within you), healing, frequently joyful, and often transformational (for you as well as your readers).
From the December 2011 issue
Feature: "Heart Turns Over Time: Reconciled Mother-Love
in the Poems of Sharon Olds, and in Naomi's Experience of Revising
and Illustrating MotherWealth: The Feminine Path to Money"
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From the November 2011 issue
1. Introduction: "Coming to Wholeness"
2. Feature: "When Writing Is Healing (for your body, mind, heart, soul)"
3. Guest Writer: "Healing Writing Can Be Promotional, Too ~
Grateful Body's Enlivening Narrative"
4. Blooming Now in the Rose Press Garden
5. New Blog: "Coming Up Roses"
6. Flower Essence Remedies for Writers: "Healing Your Emotional Field
Makes It Easy to Write a Book"
7. Book Development with Naomi Rose
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From the October 2011 issue
1. Introduction: "Autumn Turning"
2. Feature: "Harvesting Your Soul-Stirrings: Moving from Confusion and
Fear to Joy in Book Writing"
3. Guest Writer: Olga D.S. Lopes: "When Illiteracy Is More Than the
Absence of Just Words"
4. What's New at Rose Press: "2 Amazing New Books Almost Ready
for You"
5. Writing Your Own Book: "Easier Than You Think, with
Starting Your Book"
6. Flower Essence Remedies for Writers: "Healing Your Emotional Field
Makes It Easy to Write a Book"
7. Book Development with Naomi Rose
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From the September 2011 issue
1. Introduction: "A Brief Hello"
2. Feature: "Watching an Image Take Shape: How Seeing the Creative
Process Take Place in the Simultaneous, Relational World of
Visual Art Can Inspire Your Book-Writing"
3. Writing Your Own Book: "Closer Than You Think"
4. Flower Essence Remedies for Writers: "Healing Your Emotional Field
Makes It Easy to Write a Book"
5. Book Development with Naomi Rose
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From the July-August 2011 issue
1. Introduction: "What Does It Mean to Be Creative?"
2. Feature: "Creativity Isn't Just About Having Good Ideas (Creativity Is
What Happens When You Pay Attention to Who Lives Inside You)"
3. Postscript: "In Praise of the Feminine in Creating, Even Promoting,
Our Books:
4. Writing Your Own Book: "Closer Than You Think"
5. Help Me Spread the Word: "Starting Your Book Helps Writers,
Readers, the World"
6. Flower Essence Remedies for Writers: "Healing Your Emotional Field
Makes It Easy to Write a Book"
7. Book Development with Naomi Rose
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From the May - June 2011 issue
1. Introduction: "Internal Flowering "
2. Feature: "Writing What Can Be Said, and Writing What Can't Be Said
(Why We Need to/Why We're Called to)"
3. Writing Your Own Book: "Closer Than You Think"
4. A Peek Inside the Writing of Starting Your Book
5. Writing Medicine: “Flower Essence Remedies for Writers & Readers”
6. Starting Your Book: New, revised, gorgeous edition available
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From the March - April 2011 issue
1. Introduction: "Some Fruits of Spring"
2. Feature: "The Antidote to Fear is Desire (Letting the Muse Find You When
You Procrastinate Writing Your Book)"
3. Contest: “The Results of the ‘Lengthy Sentence Contest: The amazing
experience that can happen when you take the time to slow down”
4. Recommended Books : “The Gift of Anger”
5. Writing Medicine: “Flower Essence Remedies for Writers & Readers
(Enhancing your writing by enhancing YOU)”
6. Starting Your Book: New, revised, gorgeous edition available
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From the January - February 2011 issue
1. Introduction: "A Small Treasury of Wonderful Things to Share"
2. Feature: "Intimate Details in Writing (details that bring what you're writing
about intimately close to the reader)"
3. Writing Medicine: "A Flower Essence Remedy to Help You Write Those
Intimate Details"
4. Lengthy Sentence Contest: "Deep Is Fun: A challenge to write long"
5. Guest Blogger: Ann Luria
6. Writing Medicine-plus: "Flower Essence Remedies for Writers & Readers"
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January-February 2011 Newsletter
~ 2011 ~
From the December 2010 issue
1. Introduction: "Happy New Year"
2. Feature: "A Reflection on Writing from the Deeper Self:
Looking Backwards & Forwards, and Thanking You"
3. News: "Rose Press Written up in the Oakland Tribune:
A Rose Blooms in Oakland"
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From the November 2010 issue
1. Introduction: "Letting Go into the Harvest"
2. Feature: "The Important Role of Silence in Writing
(a book ~ or anything else you care about writing)"
3. Rose Press News: "Exciting Things Happening Now at Rose Press
(and on the horizon)"
4. Books: "Starting Your Book ~ Ebook now available"
(new print edition soon to follow)
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From the October 2010 issue
1. Introduction: "The Community You Gather through Your Books"
2. Feature: "Writing a Book as a Giving Back: Giving Yourself to Yourself
through Writing Is Also a Way to Give to the World"
3. "Writing Medicine": Flower Essence Remedies for Writers
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From the September 2010 issue
1. Introduction: "Letting Go into the Harvest"
2. Feature: "The Value of Completing a Book and Giving It to Yourself
and the World"
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From the August 2010 issue
1. Introduction: "The Storyline of Your Life"
2. Feature: "First Drafts"
3. Support for Your Book-Writing Journey: Book Development
with Naomi Rose
4. Rose Press Books and other delightful blooms: "Starting Your Book:
E-Book Now Available"
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From the July 2010 issue
1. Introduction: "An Organic Guided Tour of Writing"
2. Feature: "Writing in a Spiral"
3. Feature: "Books and Healing"
4. Support for Your Book-Writing Journey: Book Development
with Naomi Rose
5. Rose Press: What's Happening with the Rose Press website
(Naomi's "Sistine Chapel" Equivalent Is Almost Ready for You")
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From the June 2010 issue
1. Introduction: "The Marathon Creative-Intensive of Rose Press's website"
2. Feature: "The Book You See on a Bookstore Shelf Starts Out as a Process
Undergone by a Very Real Human Being Like Yourself"
3. Feature: "Books and Healing"
4. Support for Your Book-Writing Journey: Book Development
with Naomi Rose
5. Rose Press Books and other delightful blooms:
Healing Civilization, by Dr. Claudio Naranjo, now in print
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(No April or May issue -- sorry, Rose Press's needs took over. Will make every effort to give you a monthly newsletter starting in June.)
From the March 2010 issue
1. Introduction: "Seeds of Spring"
2. Feature: "When Books Are Less Than Life (and Yet Writing a Book
Enhances Your Life"
3. Feature: "Imagining Yourself into the Picture:
How Empathetic Imagination Heals the Soul"
4. Flower Essences for Writers
5. Book Development: "Write the Book You Want to Write, the Way
You Want to Write It: Book Development with Naomi Rose"
6. Rose Press Books and other delightful blooms
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(No February issue)
From the January 2010 issue
1. Introduction: "New Year's Greeting "
2. Feature: "We Build the Road as We Travel:
The Creative, Evolutionary Need for Book Writers to Tolerate
(Even Accept) The Process of Rough Drafts and Revisions"
3. Book Development: "Write the Book You Want to Write, the Way
You Want to Write It: Book Development with Naomi Rose"
5. Service: "The Joy of Being Listened to"
6. From the Flame of Desire to the Fulfillment of Being in Print
7. Rose Press Books and other delightful blooms
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From the December 2009 issue
1. Introduction: "Light from the Dark"
2. Feature: "Beyond Expertise: When Writing from Your Life Is
the Gift of Gifts"
3. Book Development: "Write the Book You Want to Write, the Way
You Want to Write It: Book Development with Naomi Rose"
5. Service: "The Joy of Being Listened to"
6. From the Flame of Desire to the Fulfillment of Being in Print
7. Rose Press Books and other delightful blooms
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(No November 2009 issue)
From the October 2009 issue:
1. Introduction: "A Sanctuary in Which to Write"
2. Feature: "Not Knowing : A Sometimes Unnerving but Utterly
Reliable Guide (in writing a book and other things, too)"
3. Offering: "A Cornucopia of Offerings to Bring Your Book to Print"
4. Book Development: "For the Book Waiting in Your Heart"
5. Rose Press Books "Make Your World Fragrant "
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{No issue August - September 2009}
[Sorry ~ learning to be a publisher intervened.
The newsletter will be back in action in October]
From the July 2009 issue:
1. Introduction: "Writing a Book Can Heal the World"
2. Feature: "Why, in This Age of Writing to Boost Careers,
It's Important to Write Deeply"
3. Guest Forum ~ Jane Falla: "A Few Unconventional Ideas
About Writing"
4. Selling from the Deeper Self: "A New Model"
5. Naomi Rose Services: "Book Development,"
"Rose Press Books Now Available"
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From the June 2009 issue:
1. Introduction: "Becoming a Publisher, continued"
2. Feature: "Writing for Your Self:
Discovering Your Most Valuable Reader"
3. In That Same Vein: "A Letter to a Client"
4. Selling from the Deeper Self: "Rose Press Books
Are Starting to Bloom for You"
5. Naomi Rose Services: "Book Development,"
"Rose Press Books Now Available"
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{No issue, April or May 2009}
From the March 2009 issue:
1. Introduction: "Becoming a Publisher"
2. Feature: "Finding Time to Write: Getting Off the Grid ~
and into the Sanctuary"
3. Playtime: "Writing as Play"
4. Naomi Rose Services: "Book Development"
and "Creativity Coaching & Consulting"
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{No issue, February 2009}
From the January 2009 issue:
1. Introduction: "Remembering the Wealth Within"
2. Feature: "Writing a New Chapter in the Book of Your Life
(What You're Seeking Is Seeking You, Too)"
3. Playtime: "Writing as Play"
4. Naomi Rose Services: "Book Development"
and "Creativity Coaching & Consulting"
To read, click on
From the December 2008 issue:
1. Introduction: "Maybe You Already Have
What You Need"
2. Feature: "How a Book Can Change Your Life
(and Why You Might Want It To)"
3. Sharing: "What I'm Up to These Days:
A Behind-the-Scenes Look"
4. Naomi Rose Services: "Book Development"
and "Creativity Coaching & Consulting"
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From the November 2008 issue:
1. Introduction: "We Are Inter-Connected"
2. Feature: "Is It Commerce or Is It Art?"
3. Article: Becoming Prosperous in Your Outer Life
by Doing 'Inner Work' in Your Inner Life:
Money from the Deeper Self"
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From the October 2008 issue:
1. Introduction: "Inside-Outside"
2. Feature: "The Intimate Fruits of a Writing Retreat:
Coming into the Wealth of Inner Being"
3. Celebrations & Succcesses
4. Upcoming Workshop: Money from the Deeper Self
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From the September 2008 issue:
1. Introduction: "Shifting from a Book-Product
to a Book-Process Orientation"
2. Feature: "Writing a Book as a Quest"
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From the August 2008 issue:
1. Introduction: "We Write to See Who We Are"
2. Feature: "Refining and Being Refined: On Artistic Developing--
and Being Developed"
3. Product Notice: "Starting Your Book is being revised"
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From the July 2008 issue:
1. Introduction: "Home-Birthing a Book"
2. Feature: "Writing a Book Is an Intimate Act,
and So Is Reading It: A Heart-to-Heart Way
of Approaching Publishing"
3. Feature: "Real People's Books Get Made into Movies...
Elizabeth
Rosner's The Speed of Light"
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From the June 2008 issue:
1. Introduction: "Wishing You Well"
2. Feature: "The Joys of Writing a Letter -- and a Book"
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To the May 2008 issue:
An interview with Naomi Rose
by Molly Childers for
Creativity Portal
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[No April 2008 issue (life intervened)]
From the March 2008 issue:
1. Introduction: "Because There's a Wondrous Treasure Inside You"
2. Feature: "How We Come to Write About What We Write About: Healing Our Unspoken, Often Difficult Relationship with Money"
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From the February 2008 issue:
Feature: "Love Is in the Air When You Write from Love"
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From the January 2008 issue:
1. Feature: "A Beautiful Inner Atmosphere"
2. Reminder: "Working with a Book Developer Can Make Your Book Real"
3. Encouragement for the Journey: Starting Your Book: A Guide to Navigating the Blank Page by Attending to What's Inside You"
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From the December 2007 issue:
1. Introduction: "The Gift of Darkness in Bringing Forth Life"
2. Article: Celebrating the Creative Successes of WFDS Clients
3. Feature: Something Good to Read: Shelley Klammer's book review,
"The Art of Writing a Book: Reviewing Naomi Rose's Book,
Starting Your Book: A Guide to Navigating the Blank Page
by Attending to What's Inside You"
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From the November 2007 issue:
1. Introduction: "Opening to the Encouragement of
Light"
2. Article: "Revising Your Writing ~ and Your Life"
3. Feature: Something Good to Read: "Unleashing
a Peace," by Ralph Dranow
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From the October 2007 issue:
- Introduction: "Writing with Love"
- Article: "Your Book Can Heal the World: Looking in the Mirror of Our True Nature"
- Article: "The 'Deeper Self' Book in the Marketplace: Who You Are & What You Value Makes a Difference"
- Questions & Answers: "How to Keep Creativity Alive," "Tips on Self-Publishing, especially (a) Marketing, (b) Bringing in an Illustrator, and (c) Printing.
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From the September 2007 issue:
- Introduction: "Shifting from a Book-Product to a Book-Process Orientation"
-
Article: "The Commitment of Writing a Book"
- Article: "The Web of Grace"
- Invitation: "What Would You Like to Know About Writing a Book?"
- Inspiration: "About the Writing from the Deeper Self Logo"
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From the August 2007 issue:
- Introduction: "Writing a book is a commonly held dream...."
- Article: "Writing a Book Can Be Good for Your Health"
- Tip: "Some Ways to Get into the Writing: Changing Consciousness to Sacred Space and Time"
- Clarification: "Kinds of Writing You Can Do This Way"
- Clarification: "Kinds of Subjects You Can Write About from the Deeper Self
- FAQs:
- "How long does it take to write a book?"
- "I’ve never written even an article before. How can I possibly write a book?"
- "What happens after a book is finished? How do you get it to the readers?"
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Click for other archived newsletters:
Article, "You are the treasure embedded in your book"
Article, "You Don't Have to Eat the Elephant at All"