Writing Alone and with Others

Name: Writing Alone and with Others
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ISBN: 9780195165739

ISBN-10: 019516573X

ISBN-13: 9780195165739

Edition: 2003

Authors: Pat Schneider, Peter Elbow

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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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/28/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.39" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


How to Use This Book


Introduction: A Writer Is Someone Who Writes



The Writer Alone



Feeling and Facing Fear



Getting Started (Again)



Toward a Disciplined Writing Life



Writing Practice: The Journal



Writing Practice: Developing Craft



Voice



Growing as a Writer



The Form Your Writing Takes



The Ethical Questions: Spirituality, Privacy, and Politics



Writing with Others


Introduction: Writing with Others



Basic Principles of a Healthy Workshop



Writing in a Classroom



Creating Your Own Workshop or Writing Group



Using Writing to Empower the Silenced



Additional Exercises


Additional Exercises


Afterword


List of Exercises


Recommended Resources and Reading List


Credits


Index