WelcomeDear Visitors,
Welcome to my website and thanks for your interest in me and my writing. Besides my novels and short stories, which I hope you will find intriguing enough to try, my writing and I together portray a life lesson that experience has taught me can be very valuable. This is that simultaneous active creating and attention to both dreams and the strengths and failings of the creative product can lead to unprecedented creative and emotional freedom. I delight in helping others access these. This process and the need for it are reflected in my work. Following the enormous success of my first novel, Caleb, My Son (Lippincott 1956), a New York Times best-seller and a Guggenheim fellowship-winner published in several countries, writing became much more difficult for me. As a high-school dropout hospitalized for five years during adolescence with severe anorexia nervosa, I did not feel as good as the reviewers declared Caleb to be. After my second novel, High on a Hill (McGraw-Hill 1961), I stopped writing altogether. Although my greatest wish remained to be a writer, my feelings of shame and fear crystallized in severe writer’s block that lasted nearly forty years. Only in 2002 did my breakthrough memoir, With a Woman’s Voice (Madison Books), reveal the struggle for emotional and creative freedom that had allowed me to return to writing. But an even greater moment of victory took place in 2005 when I simultaneously published The Eyes of the Father (iUniverse), my first novel after forty years and Dreaming Your Way to Creative Freedom (iUniverse), a documentation of the two-mirror (dreams and work) process that freed me to write again. My hope is that readers will find in it a road map with which to maximize their own creative freedom and empowerment. Should any of you wish more personal discussion of this, you can contact me at lcdaniels334@gmail.com. Sincerely, Lucy Daniels, PhD 
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