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With warm, lively, often humorous anecdotes, advice, and lessons, this unique approach to creative writing as a path to healing the self shows how to reverse the damaging effects done to writers in school, where red pens disciplined grammar and taught them to mistrust their natural ability as storytellers--freezing them in their creative tracks. NPR sponsorships.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Aspiring writers have a friend in Aronie, founder of the Chilmark Writing Workshop on Martha's Vineyard, as well as an author of essays on writing that have frequently aired on National Public Radio. In this how-to manual on creative writing, she describes the difficulties of finding her writing voice as an adult, even though she'd won a journalism award in school. As well as giving inspiring advice for how to start writing on a regular basis, Aronie includes a wide variety of writing exercises designed to stimulate creativity. According to her, making time for solitude and learning to live in the present by listening and observing are basic to the writing process. Aronie believes that writing is one path to healing emotional pain through expressing previously unacknowledged feelings. She includes tips on getting published, but her emphasis here is on encouraging would-be writers to believe in themselves. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal Review
Both these books are about creative writing and finding a voice. Both talk about the healing power of the writing process. Aldrich, a creative writing teacher, focuses on journal writing. Her book is divided into three sections. The first includes reasons to keep a journal, how to do it, and a set of exercises to get started and overcome blocks. Section two is about different types of people who keep journals, and section three is a collection of entries from the author's own journals to use as examples for would-be journal writers. Her book includes many quotes from famous journal keepers and a useful annotated bibliography. Aronie, whose essays are aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, writes to inspire writers. Her style is warm and her message infectious. She too includes exercises to guide her readers. A major part of her message is just to get the paper and pen in contact with each other and worry about grammar and spelling and other "school stuff" after the habit of writing has been formed. This book, which compares favorably with Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird (LJ 8/94) and Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones (1986), is more readable than Aldrich's and is recommended for all public libraries.Lisa J. Cihlar, Monroe P.L., Wis. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.