Writing alone and with others / Pat Schneider ; foreword by Peter Elbow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Pat, 1934-2020.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Creative writing--Study and teaching.

Creative writing.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

xxv, 390 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: A Writer Is Someone Who Writes xix

1 Feeling and Facing Fear 3

2 Getting Started (Again) 24

3 Toward a Disciplined Writing Life 40

4 Writing Practice: The Journal 63

5 Writing Practice: Developing Craft 76

6 Voice 93

7 Growing as a Writer 106

8 The Form Your Writing Takes 116

9 The Ethical Questions: Spirituality, Privacy, and Politics 157

10 Basic Principles of a Healthy Workshop 185

11 Writing in a Classroom 196

12 Creating Your Own Workshop or Writing Group 215

13 Using Writing to Empower the Silenced 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-374) and index.

ISBN:

0195165721

019516573X

OCLC:

51041976