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Title: Writing in Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity by Susan K. Perry, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ISBN: 0-89879-929-5 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24 (41 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Travel the Road to Creativity with Some Great Companions
Comment: I know about writing in the flow because I've been there. But darned if I could explain it. Thanks to Susan Perry and her thoughtful and thorough book, I have solid information to pass on and a good book to recommend. As a writing teacher, I have found that what I say carries more credibility if I can quote some well-known writer to make my point. Perry interviewed more than 75 writers and skillfully incorporated their comments throughout the book, from how they court the muse to their thoughts about deadlines, writer's block and dozens of other topics including what love has to do with it. My copy of Writing in the Flow is as full of sticky notes as a summer lawn overgrown with dandelions. I especially appreciated the Five Keys to Flow and the end-of-chapter ideas for turning the key. Somehow, reading a book about writing in which I can identify with other writers - especially those I admire -- never fails to make me feel better about my own writing and my writing process. We writers need all the reassurances we can get. Hats off to Susan Perry for giving us so many.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiring Weaving of art and science
Comment: As a writer, with articles published in OMNI, Success, Writer's Digest (cover article), and numerous other publications, it was a genuine pleasure and surprise to discover Dr. Perry's book on flow and writing. Finding descriptions of how so many well known writers enter and experience flow in their writing was both useful and inspiring. It really helped me get revved up for some new writing projects. Susan Perry has taken one of the most pleasant, challenging, and sometimes difficult to achieve aspects of the art of writing and woven together a discussion of the science and art. Flow is a thoroughly researched concept, with hundreds of studies illuminating this unique yet ubiquitous process. I've been aware of the research on it since the eighties. And Flow has played a major role in my own model of Positive Psychology and Positivity, which I have lectured on at numerous national professional meetings. Reading the book, you'll understand this phenomenon and, more important, you'll get a handle on how to access or enter the flow state yourself, and use it to enhance your writing experience. Flow is not just another pop psych fad. It is an elegantly researched dimension of positive psychology. Some people write and some people criticize. I would venture to guess that critics who learned how to enter the flow state, might even become writers. As organizer of the annual conference on Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology, it was a pleasure to have the author, Susan Perry as a speaker. The decision to invite her to speak was based on this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: good resource for creative people & those who study them
Comment: I found much to admire in this book. It is scholarly and thoughtful, but also practical and accessible. As such, it is a book that appeals to writers who would like to see how other writers manage the creative process; it also a book that appeals to psychologists and those who study the creative process. The author surveyed and interviewed many writers and found out how often they get into "flow" with their writing, strategies they have for getting into flow, etc. Interestingly, the author also provided information about different writers who decided not to participate in the study and their reasons for declining, some of which had to do with their reluctance or fear about analyzing their creative processes.
The author is clear that everyone's process is different and individualized, so she does not try to provide an overgeneralized how-to. Rather, she brings home the point that everyone's creative process is valid and suggests that the reader try different strategies in order to enhance his or her own creative process. These strategies are provided at the end of each chapter and provide an avenue for self-reflection of one's own creative process. I found this to be an eye-opening book.
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Title: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life (Masterminds Series) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ISBN: 0465024114 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ISBN: 0060920432 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 13 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Creativity : Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ISBN: 0060928204 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 18 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ISBN: 0060921927 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 03 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ISBN: 0670031968 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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