after reading all 5 of her historical novels, it is refreshing to finally get to this, her first non fiction book about writing and expressing our innermost selves.

there are so many things you can learn from this book- how to write a short story using 10 bullet point sentences or words from the same letter, or how to describe abstract ideas like how does a month feel? how do you verbally describe a color?

it has well researched and thought out prompts that invokes every reader to pause and answer them and tells us how the stories of others can intersect with ours. Lessons on active listening, immersive settings, character development, creating conflict, finding your authentic voice, changing how we see failure and there are also summarized recaps per chapter.

my favorite parts are the “Stories to uncover and discover” it unleashed my inner marites and you can’t not Google them.