| Writing Alone and with Others Contributor(s): Schneider, Pat (Author), Elbow, Peter (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 019516573X ISBN-13: 9780195165739 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. Now, Schneider's acclaimed methods are made available in a single well-organized and highly readable volume. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 808.042 |
| LCCN: 2002192491 |
| Lexile Measure: 1070 |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 6.74" W x 8.18" (1.04 lbs) 390 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. 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. 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. In the second section, Schneider describes the Amherst Writers and Artists workshop method, widely used across the U.S. and abroad. 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. Schneider's innovative teaching method will refresh the experienced writer and encourage the beginner. Her book is the essential owner's manual for the writer's voice. |