Product reviews for Improve Your Writing with NLP

Writing a book about writing is perhaps one of the more challenging books to write, because it really puts you in a position of 'practicing what you preach' and having it in a book for everyone to judge whether it really works! Indeed Judith Pearson does an excellent job at this with this highly readable and informative book.
Improve your writing with NLP is an excellent guide to helping any writer improve their skills in all stages. From the start Judith Pearson introduces NLP and how it can help a writer using the Neurological Levels model to help the reader understand how writing is not just about 'doing' but also about beliefs and identity. The material is presented in a way that would appeal to both people with NLP experience and also those without.
She then introduces the POWER Process (developed by Dixie Elise Hickman & Sid Jacobson, 1997) which explores the mechanics of writing and then combines this with the Disney Creativity Model to work more on the mindset of the writer. This helps guide the reader through all the stages important before putting pen to paper as well as being able to take a meta-position to help critically examine what is being written.
Judith then explores other important areas such as writer's block and gives some useful strategies for overcoming it as well as ways to help get a 'dreamer' to take action and actually get something written! As is often said, everyone has a book in them - however most people never get down to writing it! She talks about using the New Behaviour Generator to help get into the 'behaviour' of writing an get motivated doing it. This version of the New Behaviour Generator is perhaps one of the few techniques that is possibly made a little overly complex, particularly for someone reading without much NLP experience.
Judith then offers some excellent ways to critically assess your work before trying to get it published and also how to use language 'hypnotically' to appeal to your reader. At the end of the book are several pages of useful worksheets to help you put into action all the strategies and steps needed to get your work written.
Throughout the book the style of writing made reading it easy and compelling.
Anyone who has ever thought about writing a book would really benefit from reading this - it could be the key to turning a long thought about dream into reality!