Write It All Down
How to Put Your Life on the Page
By Cathy Rentzenbrink
6th January 2022 / hardback / £14.99
'Astonishingly good, not just on how to write about your life, but why to as well.’
Steve Biddulph, bestselling author of 'Raising Boys'
Why do we want to write and what stops us?
How does the urge to express ourselves fight with the worry that no-one will care or that we will get in trouble?
How do we identify and overcome everything that gets in our way so we can start making work?
Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shows you how to tackle all this and more in Write It All Down, a guide to putting your life on the page. This is a kind, encouraging and stimulating book that explores the nature of memoir writing and offers helpful guidance on how to write your life on paper. Rentzenbrink will help you to discover the pleasure and solace to be found in writing; the profound satisfaction of wrestling a story onto a page and seeing the events of your life transformed through the experience of writing the self.
Perfect for both seasoned writers as well as writing amateurs and everyone in between, this helpful handbook will steer you through the philosophical and practical challenges of writing the self. Intertwined with reflections, anecdotes and exercises from successful writers such as Dolly Alderton, Matt Haig, Kit de Waal, Sathnam Sanghera and Maggie O’Farrell, Write It All Down is at once an intimate and enjoyable narrative and an invitation to share your story.
TALKING POINTS
‘How writing changed my life’ - Cathy’s personal story
Top 5 tips on how to write your own story
How to use this book for your own wellbeing
Writing in a digital world: the importance of storytelling
New Year’s Resolutions – why you shouldn’t diet, but learn something new instead
Therapy – both Cathy’s personal experiences, and how to use writing as therapy.
ABOUT Cathy Rentzenbrink
Cathy Rentzenbrink is the author of the Sunday Times best-seller The Last Act of Love and of A Manual for Heartache, Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books and Everyone is Still Alive. It took her twenty years to wrestle her own life story on the page and she loves to use what she has learnt about the profound nature of writing the self in the service of others.
Cathy has taught for Arvon, Curtis Brown Creative, at Falmouth University and at festivals and in prisons, and welcomes anyone, no matter what their experience, education, background or story. She believes that everyone’s life would be improved by picking up a pen and is at her happiest when encouraging her students to have the courage to delve into themselves and see the magic that will start to happen on the page.
Website - https://cathyreadsbooks.com/
Instagram – @writeitalldown_
Twitter - @catrentzenbrink