Writing on Both Sides of the Brain: Breakthrough Techniques for People Who Write Paperback – 21 January 1987

I love this book, a small writing task was suggested and I'm doing it daily, sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes 15. I know that sounds small but I was doing nothing. I'm delighted.

Writing on Both Sides of the Brain by Dr. Klauser is an excellent read for anyone that is currently writing or aspiring to write a book. She dives into areas contributing to writers block, procrastination and self criticism and explains how to overcome them. Klauser offers up simple exercises that are trans-formative. These exercises will have an immediate benefit to your daily writing. I highly recommend this book.

Absolutely. I read and used it years ago. It teachers you how to stsy in your right creative mind to write. Later you let your left brsin in to play proofreader. Still great advice. I gave it to a friend and her writers group.

I am a professional writer and until l read this book l didn't realise that l have been doing it incorrectly for all these years! The author suggests that we have two brains a `left brain' and a `right brain'. The right side is associated with creativity and flare whilst the left side is associated with analytical thinking and criticism. The author suggests that writer's block often occurs when we try and use both sides of the brain simultaneously -- we should first allow the creative side to take over and only when we have a good first draft should we allow the critical left side take over. In the real world this means that we should not write, for example, two sentences, stop and check our grammar spelling and readability, but instead we should write 2 or 3 paragraphs then check over the content. It sounds so simple but it really does work and for me at least has resulted in a faster working pace and enhanced creativity.

The author gives a multifaceted tour of the creative writing process from left brain/right brain cognitive differences  Use Both Sides of Your Brain: New Mind-Mapping Techniques, Third Edition (Plume) , to the use of "mind mapping"  The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potential  to the psychology of neuro-linguistic programming  Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)  together with a number of useful exercises to develop the reader's own skills. Use Both Sides of Your Brain: New Mind-Mapping Techniques, Third Edition (Plume)The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped PotentialIntroducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)