I just 'finished' my last assignment for your Radical Writing course. It has changed my life (I know. I can see you smile. Radical Writing is SUPPOSED to change one's life.) I feel like singing (oh schmalz!) 'I can see clearly now', but I do. I can see clearly now. At lot of things I knew, but writing them down makes them known deeper and better.

I  wanted to use this course as "a means to generate and sustain motivation to complete the writing of" my book, and I am. I will. I am off to Kentucky for the Writers Retreat Workshop and hope to be given the final instructions to get my novel on the right track (right now it too is swimming around in the minestrone of my mind, and it needs to be fished out of there and patted dry and chopped into neat and publishable but still tasty chapters).

I wanted to thank you for a wonderful course. I loved sitting down on my bed and activating the audio, hearing your voice. One of the most important things I've learned in this course is: perfect doesn't interest us; leave the typos, get down to the essence. Don't waste time taking them out. Ha Ha.

A fabulous course it's been, and I hope to meet myself with the same regularity for my own writing.”
 
Cecile Somers,
July, 09, Luxembourg

Wow, I’m getting a lot out of this course!  People should stop paying shrinks and just do this course for a month.  I bet they’d save tons of money!  What the hell, the price of this course is the cost of one session.

Rebecca Johnson
7/09  Miami

Hi laura, Thank you so much for this. I must tell you, your Crisis Class is truly serving to help me find clarity right now...

Nancy Levin, CA

The Crisis course was such a cathartic experience. The exercises were sometimes a little daunting ; but once I started writing, they were so healing! the one thing that I really wanted to say to the group. That one thing is that the assignments that were the hardest to start, were the most releasing, freeing ones. the exercies gave me a much more balanced look at my \"crisis.\" The glossary is beautiful.

LoRe Bolling,
Whitehall, MD

One of themany assignments that was particularly helpful for me was when you talked about rewriting our scripts. I got that on many levels, and being a screenwriter as well as novelist, I discovered another way to get more spiritually out of my writing. Now I break out my screenplay writing software to devise quick scenarios -- five minutes tops -- that visualize my goals and dreams, whether it's manifesting a desire, venting a frustration that might not be safe to indulge in the real world (like radical writing) or just discovering a solution to a problem or at the very least learning to be at peace with something I cannot change.  It's a tremendously powerful way of speaking to all of who I am.

Sofia Quintero

As I took the course, I learned to brainstorm first then edit later.   Something useful always cames out that I could piece together. I think art is in the piecing together.  Like the right words might be articulate, but not necessarily eloquent.  I strive towards the latter, because of the relief and comfort I experienced when the abstract anguish was finally articulated, making a nebulous pall finite and thus manageable.  It is in my creative self, more often than not, I have found measures of comfort, even salvation.  

Jordan Auslander,
New York City, 2008
 
Hi Laura, Yes, your course is exactly the motivation I need to get back to writing again. I am well into my new book now and my wife says that is my best work ever. I attribute it to you helping me to tear down the blocks of inhibition that have kept me stifled.
 
Isn’t it interesting though how you think that you are one type of person and then you find, through a thing like radical writing, that there is a whole bunch of other people that you are. I am starting to feel like a person with multiple personalities today. I am starting to wonder who will be on stage next.

Rodney Groves  
January, 09
 
Hello Laura, My new book, Stepping Stones to Personal Empowerment, is now published and available! I want to thank you for your help in helping me to find the creativity within me to write it (I mention your writing class in my book, by the way).

Love and peace,
Rodney Groves – July, 2009

The class is surprisingly moving, healing, transformational. Thank you for who you are on behalf of others and that you would create this.--

Mayra Hitchens,
Spring 09

I'm beginning to get in touch with a flow of raw energy, but I'm still in that pattern of feeling afraid to offend - afraid of the consequences of really letting it fly - hopefully I'm letting it fly anyway.  The more I write, the more I get intouch with and gain access to more parts of myself - and the clearer I become.  This process is perfect for me.  I hope to stay with it for life.  It's amazing how huge - limitless we are.  I'll keep writing and exploring!
 
I wouldn't want to limit myself in any way - there's room for it all.  In my case, it's recognizing where it's coming from inside of myself, and finding the source of the desire to use particular words or express certain feelings. I want to see the delusions that have hypnotised me and kept me in fearful patterns of living.  In my experience, when they are really seen, directly encountered, felt fully, they start to let go on their own. They're seen as unnecessary baggage; they begin to let go of themselves with no effort on my part. It even becomes a joy to be with them, and at that point it doesn't matter if they stick around or not.  At that point everything is perfect exactly how it is.  When I say certain habitual things I can feel the hesitation, the tentativeness behind them.  there is something false there.  It makes me want to enter the arena, like in Fight Club and have it beaten out of me.  When you're a bloody mess, having spent your last fiber of energy in the fight, you're not as worried about offending and don't care what someone thinks of you.  You simply are what you are - raw and uncontrived.  It's that, that I'm looking for - authentic, unapologetic being and expression.  Naturalness.  I don't know that I need to be in a bloody fight to get there - maybe.  But, right now my writing is my Fight Club.  It's the place where I encounter myself with no rules and less and less held back.
 
D.S., Ft.Lauderdale
 
Radical Writing is making a huge difference in my life. My fear, authoritarianism, (pointing finger) had literally paralyzed me. My brain is a fifty-year-old computer that needs new wiring and new programming to fly across the ethers. This is what Radical Writing is doing for me. It is painful and yes there are days that I don’t want to enter this morass, but you know one day, I found myself humming and doing my chores without the constant battle of I can do this or I can't do this but I must do it, and then flopping on the couch in frustration. This was liberating and one of the happiest moments, I had in my life in a long time. I owe it all to you, Laura and Radical Writing.
 
Sandra Petrich,
summer 09 Part 1
 
Oh! Laura, Thank you so much. Words can't express the joy that I am feeling at this moment. For the first time, in sixty two years I am breathing deeply, my muscles are relaxing, I am smiling and crying at the same time, I am literally flowing over with creative energy, in fact my cup is over flowing. I, can't believe this sense of liberation and for the first time in sixty-two years, I feel in control of my life.

I was researching literature in neural physiology, but became frustrated and despondent. I could not understand why this sudden change within my body. Then a two by four smacked me across my rear end and I realized that the answer to healing is within me, in my own brain. I was under the illusion due to my lack of self-confidence that I would have to become a specialist in every field to overcome my problems, which while I love-studying takes a lifetime. Thank you, Radical Writing that I do not have to follow this process.

Sandra Petrich,
Part 2
 
I loved your style of teaching, hands-off and yet completely in control via the instruction. It really is a little less crazy me that writes today versus the me that began Part 1.  

 Love, Vrunda Prabhu
Summer 09, Part 3

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