这不仅是一本教会我们从事英语非虚构创作的写作指南，更是一本教会我们如何热爱生命，如何用爱 去拥抱这个并不完美的现实世界的人生指南，是一本充满生命气息的写作教材。本书从理念上突破了传统 写作教学方法的束缚，倡导自由写作，使同学们能用“心”去体会，从根本上规避了套版作文弊端，使学 习者能够用“心”去体会。 本书可供高校英语和非英语专业的本科生使用，也可以作为英语非虚构创意写作的学习者的参考书。

本书从理念上突破了传统写作教学方法的束缚，倡导自由写作，使同学们能用“心”去体会，从根本上规避了套版作文弊端，使学习者能够用心去体会。本书可作为高校英语和非英语专业的本科生使用，也可以作为非虚构创意写作的学习者的参考书。

I write with great pleasure and pride to applaud for the publication of Li Hua’s Writing Stories from Our Hearts: A Guide to the Art of Creative Nonfiction. It marks the fi rst of such guidebooks in English as a foreign language in mainland China. I came to know Li Hua’s play The Mighty Hand while I was doing research on creative writing as a Fulbright scholar at University of Iowa in 2013. I was both surprised and thrilled to find someone who had been teaching creative writing since 2006, three years before I did at Sun Yat-sen University. I wrote to her immediately. It was not until after a while that she responded. Although I put “creative writing” in the subject of my email messa...