New Book by Leslie Leyland Fields
An energizing hands-on guide to crafting the life you really want
The stories we tell ourselves shape the lives we live. They can keep us trapped — or they can become the doorway to freedom. With warmth, wisdom, and decades of experience guiding writers around the world, Leslie shows you how to transform the story you've been given into the story you choose to live.
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Inside the Book
You don't need perfect grammar or a flashy dramatic life. You need only honesty, courage, and a desire for growth and change. This book gives you the rest.
Break free from old identities and the stories that keep you stuck in regret, shame, or disappointment. You get to choose the story you live.
Use scenes, dialogue, and vivid description to transform raw memory into writing that moves and surprises — even you.
With clear direction, inspiring examples, and decades of teaching experience, Leslie gives you the gumption to finally write your story.
Praise for the Book
Write Your Story, Change Your Life is so much more than just a guide to writing. It's a deeply personal ground plan to understanding the strength of your story, and to embracing the curative power and spiritual renewal to be found in it.
Leslie Leyland Fields helps us gather pieces of our lives and load them into a cannon — daring and equipping us to light the fuse and send the redemptive power of our stories into this big, wide world. Part master craftsman and part midwife, Leslie will guide you on the most courageous, commissioning journey.
With clear direction, inspiring examples, and serious literary chops, Leslie will give you — there's no other way to put it — the gumption to write your story with confidence. Life is short. Now is the time to write your story, and you couldn't ask for a better guide.
The power of this book is the message that the process of excavating your story can be healing... freeing... and truly transformational. Leslie's accessible, warm coaching is packed with insight and examples from the work of her students as well as the voices of other respected writers.
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You have a story worth telling. Leslie will show you how to tell it — with honesty, craft, and the courage to let it change you.