Wellness and Writing Membership Site

Welcome! This exclusive site contains a complete collection of empowering writing and wellness programs

Joseph Campbell believed myth serves as a metaphor for living. Creative writing is a means of living fully.

The joy of creation is its sign. --Henri Bergson

There are three elements to the art of fulfillment:

Attention and Presence

Holistic Well-Being

Creative Giving

This site is designed to help you with these three areas of your life--in the way you live and the stories and poems you write. As we experience life or read a story there are moments and images that resonate with us, and the resonance of these experiences is the experience of poetry. When we become more familiar with what uniquely and poetically drives us as individuals, our writing benefits, we develop, and our interactions in the world improve. Creative writing is the intent to communicate in a way that transcends the concern for having a function within the status quo by instead honoring the unique integrity of our human nature.

As we grow to more fully understand how things are interrelated, we become more able to empathize with our characters and observations. There is an intensity in this manner of observing.

from Writing from Direct Observation: The Art of Description

Members get free access to this book and more, including. . .

The Haiku in English: A Guide for Writers

Song is neither poetry nor prose. Haiku is a moment of this song.

Erotic Writing: A Voice to Touch the Reader.

We should trust more in whatever feelings arise as long as they deepen our experience of intimacy and love in the world.

Click the What Do Members Get button above on the left side of this page for the complete contents of WritingVacation.com.

New members can join for only $179/year.

Join risk-free. If at any time during the first 30 days you'd like to cancel, even if you just wake up on the wrong side of the bed, send us an email and you'll get a full refund.

(Membership cost is fully refundable within 30 days)

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