CHARLOTTE WOOD
  • Books
    • The Luminous Solution
    • The Weekend
    • The Natural Way of Things
    • The Writer's Room
    • Love & Hunger
    • Animal People
    • Brothers & Sisters
    • The Children
    • The Submerged Cathedral >
      • Book club notes
    • Pieces of a Girl
  • Bio & photo
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NEWS, EVENTS, LATEST MEDIA​

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​‘…a rich inner life is not just the preserve of the arts. The joys, fears and profound self-discoveries of creativity — through making or building anything that wasn’t there before, any imaginative exploration or attempt to invent — I believe to be the birthright of every person on this earth. If you live your life with curiosity and intention — or would like to — this book is for you.’


'The Luminous Solution documents the mysterious, personal and near spiritual possibilities of creative thought for an individual; as much as creativity for Wood is about writing well, it is also a way of life ... This brilliant manifesto ought to find its way on to the shelves of curious people everywhere looking for an inspired approach to life.
- Gretchen Shirm, The Australian

‘This collection is open, honest and generous. Magnificent, intelligent writing.' 
★★★★★
- Good Reading magazine

'As one of Australia’s most successful novelists, the courage and boldness of [Wood’s] examining the less-visible and unenviable parts of creativity is exhilarating … The book ends with a vision of rapturous sea-swimming, the salt water’s “blissful shock” like the bracing freedom of this vision of unshackled creativity.'
- Felicity Plunkett, The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Elegant and deeply considered’ 
– Rosemary Neill, The Weekend Australian


In this essential work, award-winning writer Charlotte Wood shares the insights and experience she has gained about creative thinking over a career paying close attention to her own mind, to the world around her and the way she and others work.

​Drawing on her doctoral studies in creativity and decades of writing, conversation and immersive reading, she explores what artists might have to teach the rest of us about:
  • intuition and perseverance;
  • risk, and the exhilaration of departing from safe territory;
  • the power of ‘unknowing’;
  • making an art form of your own life;
  • nature's crucial role in a flourishing inner world;
  • working through failure, and more. 
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The Luminous Solution is a book about how thinking creatively can help all of us to live richer, more wholehearted lives.
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THE INFLUENCE: Charlotte on the paintings of Jude Rae in
The Saturday Paper, by Kate Holden​
THE WRITER'S ROOM PODCAST: JOAN SILBER
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Charlotte interviews US author and teacher Joan Silber on character, narrative time, point of view and 'weight' in fiction. 
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Episode 3: POWER, featuring The Natural Way of Things
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Charlotte on how to extend your creativity on Drive with Richard Glover, ABC Sydney Radio
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  • Books
    • The Luminous Solution
    • The Weekend
    • The Natural Way of Things
    • The Writer's Room
    • Love & Hunger
    • Animal People
    • Brothers & Sisters
    • The Children
    • The Submerged Cathedral >
      • Book club notes
    • Pieces of a Girl
  • Bio & photo
  • MEDIA
  • Podcasts
  • for writers
  • Contact