What is the writer's method? How does a writer get strings of inspired words from his mind onto the page? Not very damn well if you're Ben Halaby, filled with dedication but suffering the throes of writer's block. Then he stumbles across a book on creativity: Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way". The basic tenet of Cameron's book is to write threepagesnonstopfirstthinginthe-morningfor84days.
Halaby heeds Cameron's advice. And what we see, as the words come gushing out of his pen and soul, is not only the creative process in action, but a glimpse of a man turning into his old story-telling self again.
Review: "Joseph Sutton, God bless him, remembers things the way he wants to remember them, the only way to heaven for a writer. He writes in the grand storyteller tradition of Jean Shepard and Bill Saroyan, both of whom would have been happy, I'm sure, to treat Joe Sutton to a steak and a few martinis in exchange for an autographed copy of Morning Pages."
-Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart
Bio: JOSEPH SUTTON has worked as a deliveryman, a costume jewelry sales representative, and a high school teacher. A full-time writer since 1988, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and son. He is the editor of Words of Wellness, a book of inspirational quotes. This is his first published novel.
