Write It All Down
How to Put Your Life on the Page
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Cathy Rentzenbrink
About this listen
Tackle the challenges of memoir writing and share your story.
'Cathy is the person who first told me to write about my mental health when I was nervous to do so. She is a great writer herself and this is brilliant.' - Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive
Why do we want to write and what stops us? How do we fight the worry that no-one will care what we have to say? What can we do to overcome the obstacles in our way?
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. Complete with a compendium of advice from amazing writers such as Dolly Alderton, Adam Kay and Candice Carty-Williams, this book is here to help you 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 a memoir.
Perfect for 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, whether you're struggling with writers block or worrying what people will say. Intertwined with reflections and exercises, Write It All Down is at once an intimate conversation and an invitation to share your story.
Critic reviews
A gentle, wise and witty book that will take you by the hand and guide your words onto the page - I truly wish I'd read it before I began to write. (Raynor Winn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Salt Path and The Wild Silence)
Cathy has an extraordinary gift for helping people tell their stories and you need this gently inspirational book in your life. (Nina Stibbe, author of the award-winning Love, Nina and Reasons to Be Cheerful)
A wonderful, inspiring and practical book . . . I recommend this book to anyone who wants inspiration, concrete tips and encouragement to write. (Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass)
Excellent, well done.
Thank you Cathy
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Excellent guide to writing.
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- IMPOSTER SYNDROME: She begins this book by talking about the idea of not having imposter syndrome and sticking with trying to have the confidence because anybody can write and you don't need to be special and you don't need to be anything other than you have to write. Somebody with a form of writing words down and have something to write them on.
- It's also important not to get too focused on how people might receive something or what you're going to write next, the most important thing is to just keep practising and keep on writing and then you can always edit afterwards which is an important process and itself.
- The book looks at ideas in regards to getting yourself started by using question prompts and also using time is just five minutes to get yourself started or 15 minutes to work on a small project and even if you're still going after an hour, remember the timer is there just to get you started to stop yourself from looking at the phone will been distracted.
- BOREDOM AND NOT GETTING DISTRACTED: The book is full of wonderful ideas and approaches that you can use and they are right to the bone without excess waffle, but one of the most important things that I felt I got from this group is the idea of embracing boredom. You can think about the plot whilst washing the dishes or making a jigsaw puzzle or colouring in, but it's really important not to become distracted. You can have some of your greatest breakthroughs when you're really bored and just focused on the work.
- I also really like the idea when writing the story of your own life, of just writing the story at any part, not necessarily at the beginning, and having just recently (see how Craig Brown writes his books such as ‘1234: the Beatles in time’, you could just write little snapshots of moments in your life to write the story of your life. You could experiment and see yourself from other people's viewpoints, right in the third person or in the first person, the first tense of the past tense.
- The book ends with a number of authors writing about the thing that most motivates them to write and is a wonderful potpourri of ideas. One of my favourite books on getting you writing.
‘Write it all down’ by Cathy Renzenwick has written a wonderful (and short - so I will be re-reading) book to help people write.
- IMPOSTER SYNDROME: She begins this book by talking about the idea of not having imposter syndrome and sticking with trying to have the confidence because anybody can write and you don't need to be special and you don't need to be anything other than you have to write. Somebody with a form of writing words down and have something to write them on.
- It's also important not to get too focused on how people might receive something or what you're going to write next, the most important thing is to just keep practising and keep on writing and then you can always edit afterwards which is an important process and itself.
- The book looks at ideas in regards to getting yourself started by using question prompts and also using time is just five minutes to get yourself started or 15 minutes to work on a small project and even if you're still going after an hour, remember the timer is there just to get you started to stop yourself from looking at the phone will been distracted.
- BOREDOM AND NOT GETTING DISTRACTED: The book is full of wonderful ideas and approaches that you can use and they are right to the bone without excess waffle, but one of the most important things that I felt I got from this group is the idea of embracing boredom. You can think about the plot whilst washing the dishes or making a jigsaw puzzle or colouring in, but it's really important not to become distracted. You can have some of your greatest breakthroughs when you're really bored and just focused on the work.
- I also really like the idea when writing the story of your own life, of just writing the story at any part, not necessarily at the beginning, and having just recently (see how Craig Brown writes his books such as ‘1234: the Beatles in time’, you could just write little snapshots of moments in your life to write the story of your life. You could experiment and see yourself from other people's viewpoints, right in the third person or in the first person, the first tense of the past tense.
- The book ends with a number of authors writing about the thing that most motivates them to write and is a wonderful potpourri of ideas. One of my favourite books on getting you writing.
Great book on writing your own story
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Cathy Rentzenbrink is honest and open about her own approach to her writing and has some wonderful tips and advice on how we can overcome some of our own fears and worries as writers.
I read the book and then bought the Audible version. [I read the book twice - and something I never do - I even marked the passages which I needed to especially remember]. Cathy is the narrator and it makes the content extra meaningful.
I was then filled with confidence and entered a major writing competition - crossing fingers and hoping for some success!
Thank you Cathy - I thought it was an amazing book. I would have given it a "10" if I could!
Brilliant! A great listen...
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Thank you, Cathy!
Beautiful and inspiring. Thank you, Cathy!
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