Writing Alone and with Others
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (682 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019516573X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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An adjunct professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, she has taught independent writing workshops nationally and internationally. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her pioneering work using creative writing as a means of empowering low-income populations is the subject of an aw
It unfolds as the story of one writer's journey, and invites the aspiring writer along with a rich variety of anecdote, exercise and advice, celebrating both difference and difficulty as the gifts they are."--Janet Burroway, author of Raw Silk and Writing Fiction"Schneider can help you find your genius. Pat Schneider's helpful, totally personable book shows us how to undo that cultural abuse."--Carol Bly, author of Beyond theWriter's Workshop and My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories"More than movitivational or purely experiential, this very sensible yet practical text provides scores of proven exercises to help encourage the writer in all of us."--Library Journal"Honesty is creative oxygen. "Schneider's book is inspiring, full of comm
In the second section, Schneider describes the Amherst Writers and Artists workshop method, widely used across the U.S. Her book is the essential owner's manual for the writer's voice.. Chapters on fiction and poetry address matters of technique and point to further resources, while more than a hundred writing exercises offer specific ways to jumpstart the blocked and stretch the rut-stuck. The first part of the book guides the reader through the perils of the solitary writing life: fear, writer's block, and the bad habits of the internal critic. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate level, in jail cells and public housing projects, in convents and seminaries, in youth at-risk programs, and with groups of the terminally ill.Now, in Writing Alone and with Others, Schneider's acclaimed methods are available in a single, well-organized, and highly readable volume. For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. and abroad. Schneider's innovative teaching method will refresh the experienced writer and encourage the beginner. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who ha
H. L Six said Finally: An Intelligent Writing Book for All Writers. So many writing books are "dumbed down," so that an experienced writer winds up feeling they cannot get much from them. This book is the opposite. It is smart, sometimes funny, well illustrated with excerpts from well-known writers as well as from participants in Schneiders workshops.Writing Alone and With Others is filled with wise advice from a writer who has literally "been there." Schneider is honest with her readers, describing her childhood and early beginnings, using them to illust. "Perhaps the Only Resource a Writer Needs" according to Dera R Williams. If you are a writer on a tight budget and are considering which resource book to purchase out of the overwhelming sea of writing books, you need not looking any further. Writing Alone and With Others is an update of The Writer as an Artist by Pat Schneider, founder of the Amherst Writers and Artists Press and workshop method in Amherst, Massachusetts.This book is chock full of advice on the craft of writing for those who are struggling with discipline and is an excellent resource for thos. ""Eureka!" Finally a book on what REALLY is "writing"" according to R. David Roe. It was only two or three pages into the introduction of this book before I realized that Pat Schneider had given me the one book on writing I had looked for my entire life.The great barrier between each of us and our own unique genius is fear. Writing -- at least deep, personal writing -- results from a direct confrontation with that fear. Some writers abandon their genius for fear of the pain of introspection. Others develop the courage to face themselves and move forward. Genius can flo