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Healing Through Creative Writing with Francesca Lia Block
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What if the stories inside you could help heal your deepest wounds?
In this episode, I host a renowned author, Francesca Lia Block, who takes us through the magical connection between storytelling and healing.
With a blend of poetry, symbolism, and magic realism, Francesca shares how creative writing can be a powerful tool for processing emotions, healing, self-discovery, personal growth, and navigating personal experiences.
In this podcast episode, Francesca Lia Block shares:
- The body-mind connection in storytelling.
- The 12-question framework to combining craft and personal healing.
- The importance of community in the creative process.
- Balancing craft and raw expression: how to navigate, allowing your authentic voice to emerge.
- Overcoming fear and vulnerability and finding the courage to share through writing.
- The healing power of fiction.
- Writing as a somatic practice: incorporating movement and body awareness.
- The evolutionary aspect of storytelling.
- Practical tips for aspiring writers.
- The importance of ongoing projects for maintaining momentum and emotional balance.
And so much more!
Francesca Lia Block, M.F.A., is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry and has written screenplay adaptations of her work.
She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award, and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association and from the New York Times Book Review, School Library Journal, and Publisher’s Weekly.
Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese.
Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays, and interviews in The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock, The Fairy Tale Review, and Rattle, among others. In addition to writing, Francesca edits the Lit Angels online journal on Substack and teaches fiction at various places, including UCLA Extension, Antioch University, and privately in Los Angeles, where she was born and raised.
Learn more and reach out:
francesca.block@gmail.com
https://www.francescaliablock.com/about
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