Writing Alone & With Others

About this book

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 Schneiders 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 writers 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. Schneiders innovative teaching method will refresh the experienced writer and encourage the beginner. Her book is the essential owners manual for the writers voice.