A book coach’s favorite books on writing. Includes books written by Elizabeth Gilbert, Anne Lamott, Natalie Goldberg, Louise De Salvo, Marion Roach Smith, Gerald Gradd, Cathy Birkenstein, and Steven Pressfield.

Writing prompts can be a wonderful way to give direction to your writing but they don’t always resonate with where we are in the moment. Today I am going to offer another kind of prompting activity. To me, this one feels like collaborating with the divine to direct the course of my writing. If divine sounds too out there for you, let’s call it collaborating with our intuition or our subconscious.