Surfacing

<p><strong>SURFACING is a practice for writers and a book of 70 exercises to exit your writing time with care. Use it at the close of your generative writing sessions or free-writing as a way to land after deep revision work during writing retreats and everything in between.</strong></p><p> </p><p>There's so much focus on how writers <em>start</em> creative practice. It's easy to find rituals prompts and tools for getting into the writing. But the threshold <em>out</em> of writing time can be just as meaningful and it's often overlooked. What insight and momentum do you lose when you skip a thoughtful close? What if curiosity toward your endings is a key to more continuity in your writing practice?</p><p> </p><p>SURFACING is a way to exit the creative flow with care observe where you are in the process and leave an opening for when you come back to your writing. The book includes:</p><ul><li>An introduction to the practice with different ways you can use it to go deeper with your writing and build momentum.</li><li>70 closing practices each a three- to 10-minute exercise for exiting your writing time.</li><li>Tips to create your own closing practices based on what's showing up in your writing and how you want to experiment with the creative process.</li></ul>