This book wonderfully encourages young people to practice the therapeutic and creative art of journal writing.

Aristotle said "the unexamined life is not worth living." Deena Metzger provides effective and fun tools for examining one's life. I know that my life is awesome!

of self-knowledge through journals, myths, dreams, story and autobiography. Deena Metzger will have you grabbing your pen over and over as she leads you down the road to the inner territory of the writer.

I found this book heartachingly true. Parts made me laugh, parts made me cry. Jump into it with your hear open and your eyes wide. You won't regret it.

Rachel Elisabeth

Metzger does the best job I've seen on jump-starting your creativity, and tying your writing into archetypes. There's lots for the reader who wants to think of writing as a spiritual exercise. BUT for me, by far, its great gift is pragmatic. Between books, or when I feel stuck, or at the beginning of a revision, I take out "On Story" and work through all her suggestions as if it were the first time. I always come up with something new and deeper relevant to THIS story--or I come up with a new story entirely. If you are ready to get past Natalie Goldberg to the goods, here's the book. It helped me tremendously with my last novel.