{"product_id":"writing-alone-with-others-9780195165722","title":"Writing Alone \u0026 With Others","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276553773109,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195165721","price":100.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195165722.jpg?v=1780555367","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/writing-alone-with-others-9780195165722","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}