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Synopsis
The Writing Workshop Note Book is devoted to making, remaking, and remarking on writing. Animated by a concern about how we relate to our own and others' writing and by a desire to have a felicitous effect on the reader's experience with writing and critiquing?and supported by his experience from decades of leading writing workshops?Ziegler has the following goals for this book;1) It will be useful if you are taking (or thinking of taking) a writing workshop.2) It will benefit workshop teachers.3) It will be a helpful companion to a solitary writer, who can be thought of as a ''workshop of one.''4) It will be pleasant to read!While this book does focus on the workshop experience, it is impossible to truly explore the workshop without dealing with the heart that sustains the workshop's brain; the act of creation. Thus, Part One is concerned with the work that leads to the drafts on the workshop table, and Part Two emphasizes what happens around the table while these drafts are critiqued. The two Parts are not discrete; the issues in Part One often occupy workshop discussion.Teachers of writing do not open up cans of lectures; pedagogy in workshops gets doled out in brief exegeses, organized opportunistically as the work comes across the table. Ziegler replicates this process by arranging the material into notes, which the reader can absorb sequentially or alight on as he flips through the pages.
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About the Author
Zachary Mexico started studying Chinese at age fifteen, and traveled to China for the first time at age sixteen. He has studied at Columbia University in New York and Qinghua University in Beijing. He plays in the rock group The Octagon (www.theoctagonrock.com) and the electronic duo Gates of Heaven (www.gatesofheaven.net.) He lives in New York City's Chinatown.
Review
"Alan Ziegler respects both the craft and the mystery of writing, which is a rare combination indeed. In !e Writing Workshop Note Book he has done the nearly impossible--he has written an enormously useful book on writing and teaching that expands, rather than reduces, one's sense of wonder in the face of literature." -- Michael Cunningham
"Don't be taken in by the modesty of this title. Alan Ziegler's `notes' about writing are wise and farreaching. Here is a rich trove of craft details; here is a map of civility for student and teacher alike. He understands what Yeats called `the fascination of what's difficult': also the intense pleasure. He offers us a generous and pragmatic vision of each." -- Margo Jefferson
"Alan Ziegler writes about the artistic process with humor and lucidity, and in so doing humanizes the great ones, whose daily struggles with the blank page were no less arduous than our own. A wonderful guide." -- Daniel Alarcón
"An invaluable compendium of ideas, information, memories and provocations on the subject of writing. Ziegler explores the process from every angle--approaching and re-approaching to dig deeper-- offering even those of us who have been at it for a long time provocations, insights and illuminations as experienced and remembered by the writers we revere. #e book is designed to prompt us to work harder, more often, with a higher standard for ourselves. It is a wonderfully useful tool for anyone who writes, who aspires to write, or who wonders how the heck they do it." -- A.M. Homes
"It's enormously useful, funny, worthwhile, knowledgeable--the writing assignments are terrific (I can't wait to steal some of them), the quotes from other writers pointed and flavorsome, the whole teaching philosophy sound and humane " -- Phillip Lopate
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