Rope Mates
creative therapeutic writing on companionship for writers
£14.00£12.00
Monica Suswin sees writing as a daily practice to explore and shape the inner life. But she also sees it as a sustained conversation with our inherited traditions and, especially, with others dedicated to the same therapeutic task. This lucid work is at once an eloquent testimony, a gentle manifesto and a much needed guide. Peter Abbs (1942-2020) : Professor of Creative Writing (Sussex University)
Filled with wise advice and empathic encouragement, fascinating detours and provocative writing exercises, Rope Mates encompasses the spiritual, psychological, intellectual and lyrical dimensions of creative writing, and in so doing eloquently distils the work of a lifetime.
Dr Naomi Foyle: author of Adamantine and The Gaia Chronicles
110 pages
This book is appropriate for individual writers interested in personal development, as well as practitioners in healthcare, pastoral positions, psychotherapy and counselling, as well as creative writing.
The metaphor of rope-mates is borrowed from a mountaineering term. Climbers scale the rocky walls of mountains coupled together with ropes for safety and companionship. Writing is for adventurers, complete with risks and sometimes coming off the map into the unknown. But essentially acknowledging through writing the 'authority' of the self.