Emily Hanlon
Official Guide
Writing Coach, Creativity Coach, Retreat Leader and Novelist Expert
Emily Hanlon Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Creativity, the Creative Process, Fiction Writing, the novel,short story, memoir, and creative non-fiction; Creativity Coach, Retreat Leader, Motivational Speaker
- Best Sellers
- Petersburg, The Art of Fiction Writing, or How to Fall Down the Rabbit Hole Without Really Trying
- Career Focus
- Creativity Coach, Writing Coach, Workshop and Retreat Leader, Writer, Speaker.
- Affiliation
- Author's Guild, Writer's Union
About Emily, Her Creativity Coaching and The Creative Soul Works Community
Over the years, my writing and its profound effects on every aspect of my life led me to an exploration of the creative process. As the palette of my creativity widened, I understood, at a visceral level, that creativity is not limited to the arts. Rather, creativity is a path from which the journey of life is explored and its fullness embraced.
This is the wellspring of Creative Soul Works. Here we explore the facets of creativity that awaken us to the deeper truth of who we are. Explored from this perspective, creativity is synonymous with life itself and a powerful source for personal spiritual growth and healing.
I have been guiding people on the creative journey for thirty years through private coaching on the phone and in person, workshops, and my ten day retreats for women held in the US and Europe. My own spiritual journey includes extensive work in personal transformation. I have worked with spiritual and shamanic mentors and healers in the US, England and Peru. I have seven works of fiction published as well as a book on writing and creativity, and many articles on the creative process.
In addition, I am the Creativity Guide at SelfGrowth.com,and a Wisdom Teacher leading the group, Women, Creativity and the Journey of Soul at Soulfulliving.com.
Explore all my offerings at http://www.creativesoulworks.com/sg.htm
About Emily, Her Work as a Writing Coach and The Fiction Writer's Journey
My work as a writing coach is based on my two pronged method of teaching writing that demystifies the writing process. I teach you all the techniques necessary for writing fiction: short stories, memoir and the novel, while, at the same time, support you in unleashing your creative passion.
Creative passion is the magic ingredient and cannot be taught. You are born with it. For most of us, however, that deep passion which leads us to our true voice has been buried by life experiences. Reclaiming your creative passion is the most powerful part of the work you and I can do together. For once you have claimed it fully, technique become easy. The writing flows. The characters reveal themselves. The story takes shape.
Explore The Fiction Writer's Journey. Information on my coaching as well as many articles and exercises, books, audios, ebooks, gifts and more!
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Free Audio & Video Samples
Gift the Gift of Self to Self : Experience the Compassion of the Beloved
http://www.creativesoulworks.com/teleseminar_gift_of_self_audio.html
Creativity as the Doorway to Personal Truth
http://www.creativesoulworks.com/mailinglist_signup.html
The Powerful Technique of Point of View in Fiction Writing: A TeleSeminar
http://www.thefictionwritersjourney.com/Files/pov_12_11_07.mp3
Emily Hanlon Audio & Video Programs
Emily Hanlon Books
The Art Of Fiction Writing or How to Fall Down the Rabbit Hole Without Really Trying: a Workbook that opens you to your creative unconscious
http://www.thefictionwritersjourney.com/A_book_on_writing.htm
Three E-books on Writing and creativity
http://www.thefictionwritersjourney.com/ebooks.htm
Petersburg, Emily's best selling novel set in Russia in 1905
http://www.thefictionwritersjourney.com/petersburg.htm
The Swing, for middle school readers
http://www.thefictionwritersjourney.com/The_Swing_Reviews.htm
The Wing and the Flame
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/0595169104
Love Is No Excuse
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=0027425207
It's Too Late For Sorry
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Its-Too-Late-for-Sorry/Emily-Hanlon/e/9780027425901
What If A Lion Eats Me and I Fall Into A Hippopotmus' Mud Hole and Lion Easts Me?
http://www.abebooks.com/9780440059516/What-Lion-Eats-Fall-Hippopotamus-0440059518/plp
How A Horse Grew Hoarse On the Site Where I Sited a Bare Bear
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/How-a-Horse-Grew-Hoarse-on-the-Site-Where-He-Sighted-a-Bare-Bear/Emily-Hanlon/p/9780440038337
Articles by this expert
SelfGrowth articles and saved writing connected to this expert.
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***The Cycles of Creativity A Guide for Inner Healing and Growth
We are creative beings. We live in a creative universe. Creativity surrounds us, and is in us – in all of us, not just the gifted few. Although at its core, creativity is a mystery, the creative process is knowable, and we can use it as a template for living a more fulfilling, aware, meaningful life.
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Writing And The Cosmic Shopping Mall
This thought recently occurred to me: writing from the creative unconscious -- whether if be fiction, poetry, journaling, memoir or doodling -- is like walking into a cosmic shopping mall where each shop offers a different persona for us to try on, actually a different way of being in relationship to ourselves and the world. The only means of exchange in this cosmic mall is exuberance, fearlessness and a desire to share and be shared. Oh, and there's a key to the mall, too. We all have it in our pocket when we arrive, even if we don't know it's there.
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Lilies and Roses in the House of the Dark Moon
I was in the garden, taking in its early August glory as I went about aimlessly pinching off the dead daylilies. Although I love all flowers, daylilies hold my heart. I have perhaps thirty different colors, sizes and shapes. I wait for their blooming each year and wander most mornings to see which beauty is offering herself to me this day. Sometimes I gasp in joy at the subtleness of colors as tender petals open and curl backwards, showing me their hearts. I talk to them. I admit I do. “Oh, you are so beautiful,” I tell them. “And you and you!
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*** Creativity as Mediator Between the Worlds or Wild Dog's Kingdom
Creativity is a mysterious journey that connects us to the unseen worlds. There was a time when all people had access to the unseen worlds, although it was shaman, story tellers and healers who mediated between the worlds as they journeyed into the Mystery and interpreted the images found there. Today we have our contemporary journeyers into the cosmic unseen worlds--many creative people are such journeyers--but as a culture we have lost the connection to our instinctual nature.
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Ten Tips on Writing and Creativity
1. Don’t think. Creating a story or book has little to do with the intellect or language when we first begin. Our best ideas will emerge as a spark or image. Like dreams, they will make little sense. Followed, they will hold the key to the creative unconscious. 2. Creativity is cyclical. You cannot and will not be creative all the time. What is full must empty and what is empty will fill. Creativity has its own internal rhythms. Learn to listen to yours. 3. Nothing kills creativity faster than criticism.
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The Creative Process, How And Why It Works
Creativity is a subtle and magnificent dance between the rational and the intuitive, between the left and right parts of the brains, between technique and imagination. Both partners in this dance are absolutely necessary and are needed in equal proportion, which means that imagination is not more important than technique and visa versa. If you only live in the imagination, you will never get organized, you will never complete your story. However, if you start from the rational, linear, organizational part of the process, ( ie. Gotta have the perfect opening sentence and first paragraph...
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The Happy Ending - Love Conquers All Or Thoughts On Fiction Writing After Dialoguing With My Dog
Recently, I was considering the question of peace, which doesn't happen often while writing fiction. There's all that drama, love, hate, desire, envy and so on. Peace, with any luck, comes at the end of the novel. I was considering this aimlessly as I lay with my head on Phoebe's warm flank. Phoebe, being the sensitive, intuitive creature she is, immediately tuned into my musings and suggested we consider the question of love instead, which she quite rightly observed was a precursor to true peace.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Emily Hanlon
There's no inner landscape in the invisible world of our souls and hearts but is full of the most melodious and nourishing and wild freedom. And everyone should go there, to the wild place, where there are no cages, where there are no tight rooms without windows and without doors, everyone should go to the free clearance places in their own hearts. ~ John O'Donohue
Help us to be the always-hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers. ~May Sarton
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."~Albert Einstein
Contacting Emily Hanlon
How to get started
After exploring my websites, if you are interested in exploring working with me either as a creativity coach or a writing coach, please call me at 914 962 4432.
My websites are Creative Soul Works and The Fiction Writer’s Journey
I hold weekly writing workshops in Northern Westchester County, NY and also as teleseminars.
My next residential writing workshop: Journey Into the Imagination, is April 30-May 2. 2010 at Wisdom House in Litchfield, Ct.
My next retreat, Women, Creativity and the Journey of the Soul, is in Bar Harbor, Maine, October 9-16.
I also hold teleseminars on creativity as a spiritual journey and have several series on the Divine Feminine.
Please join my two mailing lists to be updates on new workshops, teleseminars and other events.
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The blog of Creative Soul Work is: The Divine Imagination.
The blog of The Fiction Writer’s Journey is Fiction Writing: The Passionate Journey.
I hold teleseminars and teleworkshops on writing and creativity as well writing workshops in northern Westchester County, NY.
Please contact me at emily@emilyhanlon.com or call me at 914 962 4432 if you are interested in joining a workshop in Northern Westchester, NY or one that meets through a conference call.
I lead an annual residential Writing Workshop: Journey Into the Imagination, in Litchfield Ct the first weekend in May. This popular weekend fills up quickly.