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Writing Your Self: Transforming Personal Material

Writing Your Self: Transforming Personal Material

by Myra Schneider (Author), Myra Schneider (Author), John Killick (Author)

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Synopsis

This title offers a complete resource for life writing - one of the key genres studied within creative writing. Writing Your Self is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in exploring personal material in their writing. It examines how a wide range of successful writers approach personal material and the different modes and techniques they use. The first part of the book focuses on a wide range of universal experiences including childhood, identity, adult relationships and loss as well as more specific issues such as exile and displacement, physical and mental illness and abuse. Throughout the book, a wide range of writers discuss their own experiences and how they have tackled this material in their writing. Part Two offers a series of techniques and a wide range of practical exercises and examples. Part Three discusses the writing process, moving to finished pieces of work in different genres and the question of publication. Bringing together writers with a broad range of valuable experience, this is the definitive resource for exploring life writing and offers an exciting range of possibilities, examples and techniques for approaching personal material.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 270
 Publisher: Continuum
Published: 05 Nov 2009
ISBN 10: 1847062520
ISBN 13: 9781847062529

Media Reviews
Throughout history, communities and individuals have renewed and preserved their sense of identity and shared riches by telling stories. To tell any story is a spiritual act: to tell our own stories is both liberation and challenge and, at crucial points in our passage through life, words can either magnify or diminish the soul. Our lives are as rich and as rewarding as the stories we tell ourselves and Writing Your Self is a valuable guide to making those stories as adventurous and as generous as we have it in us to be, both for our own sakes, and for the sake of the larger community of souls.
- John Burnside, Poet and Reader in Creative Writing, University of St Andrews, UK
The connection the arts have with suffering brings into question nothing less than their relevance to the human condition itself. The field of writing in and out of distress has developed exponentially, in the UK, over the last twenty years, and so has its bookshelf. But there's always more to be said on this important topic, and Killick and Schneider's approach, which is primarily personal, will doubtless appeal to many.
- Fiona Sampson, Poet and Editor of Poetry Review
Myra Schneider and John Killick have written an engaging book about personal writing which will stimulate readers whatever their level of experience. Examples have been carefully chosen from both well-known practitioners and writers experimenting with words for the first time. Writing Your Self will introduce readers to speculative and reflective approaches to writing and reading. It should expand thinking about the possibilities and challenges of writing, e.g. aesthetic, cultural and political within one's own experience. The book will appeal to facilitators of creative writing groups and people wanting a guide for their personal use.
- Wendy French, Educational Consultant, Ex-chair of Lapidus
Author Bio
Myra Schneider is a poet and tutor for The Poetry School in London, UK. She is author of Writing My Way Through Cancer (Jessica Kingsley, 2003) and Writing for Self-Discovery (with John Killik, Element Books, 1998). John Killick has been a teacher and education officer in prisons and more recently has worked with people with dementia.