Title: The Release: Creativity and Freedom After the Writing is Done
Author: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
Publisher: Skinner House Books
Release Date: October 1, 2024
ISBN: 97815589969285

After Swinging On the Garden Gate then Writing the Sacred Journey and Living Revision,
Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew gifts us The Release. For writers who brave inspiration:
Tell stories. Make poems. Compose essays. With. Intention.
Work for decades, alone, and worry how the work will be received?
Publication? Hard. Doc. Or ephemeral? Like wind. Mist. Watch how writing moves.

Andrew offers exercises to build creative resilience. Reflect. Pause to steady what moves.
Ask: are these words true, necessary, kind? Birth wiser ways to revise.
Readers/Writers will find a friend bearing gifts on these pages.
Not sure what to do with finished work? This book breathes inspiration.
Dare to create; relish composition: release authorship to be changed, to be receptive.
Writers become guardians of pause, of contemplation, of expressive intention.

Writing is never finished but formed: Part One encourages setting intentions.
Part Two describes release as Practice: trust longings and willingness. Move,
wait, celebrate, grieve, fear, give thanks. To flaws, be gently receptive.
Writers embark on private explorations, give voice to vision and revision.
Inside writer reaches inside reader, the flow of the essence of inspiration
stays hidden, no matter what angle public light touches the pages.

Showing up to pages,
examining intentions,
being thankful for inspiration,
perceiving the ways writing moves
while waiting for readers gives time to revise.
Or time to rest, or time to be receptive.

Market transactions do not measure reception;
so, go ahead: write a love letter to your own written pages!
Is your work languishing in a drawer after decades of revision?
Why not dust it off with community-building and service intentions?
There are no ten-easy-steps where creativity’s gifts are on the move:
complexity, struggle, loneliness, obscurity — cocoons for inspiration.

How can we turn our publishing wounds into inspiration?
Are you ready to feel how writing animates your own willingness to receive?
Write with neither hope nor despair. Day by day, make a move.
Create — without hope, without despair — new tasks for written pages
turning, turning to relating to living to being kinder, wiser, more intentional.
See publishing and marketing as tired rituals that may be in need of revising.

The Release is a revelation, a revision, an inspiration,
a companion supporting intending to being receiving
the giving to pages transforming our keeping all creations moving.