Whether you are an experienced writer or someone just starting out, your whole approach to writing will be deepened and enhanced by the Freefall Writing experience.
Discover Freefall Writing
As the name suggests, Freefall invokes the courage to fall without a parachute, into the words as they come, into the thoughts before they have fully formed in the mind, into the unplanned structures that take shape, without prompting, to contain them.
“Freefall has grounded me in my ‘voice’ at last! I could have gone on floundering for years without that quiet week with Barbara, fishing into the depths of myself“
Helena Cornelius,
Author, Everyone Can Win
Barbara Turner-Vesselago’s FreefallWriting™ has helped hundreds of writers to publish fiction, memoir, non-fiction and poetry worldwide. Her foundational book about Freefall, Writing Without a Parachute: The Art of Freefall, is available from Jessica Kingsley Publishers, a division of Hachette. For those experienced in the Freefall process, Freefall into Fiction: Finding Form, also available from the UK’s Jessica Kingsley Publishers, shows writers how to sustain the Freefall process in the creation of fiction and memoir. Both books are available on Amazon or (with free worldwide shipping) from www.bookdepository.com.
By means of five simple precepts, Barbara leads the writer step by step into a genuine partnership with writing through the art of Freefall.
1. Write what comes up for you.
2. Don’t change anything.
3. Give all the sensuous detail.
4. Go where the energy is, or go fearward.
5. Observe “The Ten-Year Rule”.
Ultimately, Freefall helps you connect with your deepest intention in writing, and to write with authority and grace.
Asked in an interview why she teaches Freefall, Barbara responded, ‘I teach this way of writing because it works. And it’s the only way I’ve ever come across that really does’. Freefall is a method some writers discover spontaneously, but many have to (re)learn: the technique of writing from the larger Self, beyond reach of the ego and its censors.
As the name suggests, Freefall invokes the courage to fall without a parachute, into the words as they come, into the thoughts before they have fully formed in the mind, into the unplanned structures that take shape, without prompting, to contain them.
What Writers Say
“Without Freefall, I would never have written a single word.”
Tilda Shalof
Author of A Nurse’s Story and The Making of a Nurse (McClelland & Stewart)
“I’m always telling anyone who wants to write: do Freefall”
Helena McEwan
Author of The Big House, Ghost Girl and Invisible River (Bloomsbury)
“[Freefall] writing workshops helped me to write again after a long silence.”
Joan Bodger
Preface to The Crack in the Teacup (McClelland & Stewart)
I learned to flow with my passion, not to be afraid, and to look forward to the results […] By letting myself go I truly found a voice.
Nellie Jacobs, Author of Grading the Teacher (Penguin)
It took a creative writing course by the Canadian teacher, Barbara Turner-Vesselago, to unblock me and then I couldn’t stop.
Iola Matthews, OAM, author of My Mother, My Writing and Me: a Memoir (Michelle Anderson Publishing), Chequered Lives: John Baron and Stephen Hack and the early days of South Australia, (Wakefield Press), Winning for Women: a Personal Story (Monash University Publishing)
I always thought I could only do “straight” writing, not creative writing, until I attended Barbara’s week-long workshop…The experience was, for me, extraordinary.
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