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Healing the spirit: Creative writing resources

Selected sources at the Williamsburg Regional Library Phillip West Memorial Cancer Resource Center.

Writing may be used as a way to relieve stress, as a coping mechanism, and as a vehicle to move into more positive thinking. This resource guide will help you find resources in the library about JOURNALING, CREATIVE WRITING, AND LIFE STORY WRITING.

I. Books to check out:

To find books that can be checked out, choose the SUBJECT search on the computer catalog and type the subject:

  • journaling
  • creative writing
  • life story writing

Some suggested creative writing resources at your Library:

journaling

  • 808.066 OFF Journal to the Soul
  • 808.06692 SIM Keeping Your Personal Journal
  • 808.06692 ALD Notes From Myself: A Guide to Creative Journal Writing

creative writing and life stories

  • 808.042 FRA Finding Your Writer’s Voice
  • 808.02 COO Freeing Your Creativity
  • 808.06692 GUI Guide for Recalling and Telling Your Life Story
  • 808.06692 ALB Writing from Life
  • 808.06692 SEL Writing from Within
  • 80806692 BEN Writing Personal Essays
  • 808.06692 RAI Your Life as Story

II. Magazines:

Articles on gardening and healing may be found in various periodicals in the library collection or in the magazines databases available through the library’s Cancer Resource Center website. 

III. Internet resources: 

If you have access to the Internet, you may access the library’s catalog and numerous other useful resources on the library web site at http://www.wrl.org. If you need a library card, you may also register at the library Circulation Desk or online at http://www.wrl.org/depts/circ/applycard.html.

Compiled for the  CRC's Healing the Spirit Creative Writing Workshop, April 2001 (JCr)
Williamsburg Regional Library Phillip West Memorial Cancer Resource Center 

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