Publisher's Synopsis
A Magical Heroic Journey for Writers, Writing Elixir is a creative writing guide for individuals, teachers, workshops, groups, classes, retreats and more. It offers information and exercises that draw on sources of inspiration about the Heroic Journey as documented throughout world literature. Leila Kincaid created Writing Elixir after running a women's writing center and realizing the value and importance of honoring our creative expression through the written word. Inspired by mythographers Joseph Campbell and Angeles Arriens, Leila Kincaid with her Writing Elixir pulls together global cultural ideas about the fascinating and psychologically relevant steps in the heroic journey and offers writing prompts and exercises for each step of the journey.