Syllabus

By Lynda Barry

Subjects: Art, Författarskap, Barry, lynda , 1956-, Creative writing, Graphic Novel, Dessin--bandes dessinées, Cartooning, Creation (literary, artistic, etc.)--study and teaching, Boosting Creativity, Teaching, Coll13, Language arts & disciplines--composition & creative writing, Arts, Inspiration--bandes dessinées, Overcoming Creativity Block, Inspiration, Women Cartoonists, Collage Novel, 741.5/6973, Study and teaching, Cci1icc, Dessin, Comics & graphic novels, general, Créativité, Créativité--bandes dessinées, Graphic novels, Nc1429.b27 a4 2014, Outlines, syllabi, Notebooks, sketchbooks, Création littéraire--étude et enseignement, Création (arts)--étude et enseignement, Memoir Tutorial, Art and literature, Creativity, Pn6727.b36 s95 2014, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Creative Tutorial

Description: Offers selected pages from the author's illustrated notebooks kept during a three year period when she was figuring out how to teach a course on keeping creative notebooks. The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work ***What It Is***. She believes that *anyone can be a writer* and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry has run a highly popular writing workshop for nonwriters called ***Writing the Unthinkable***, which was featured in *The New York Times Magazine*. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor is the first book to make her innovative lesson plans and writing exercises available to the public for home or classroom use. Barry teaches a method of writing that focuses on the relationship between the hand, the brain, and spontaneous images, both written and visual. It has been embraced by people across North America—prison inmates, postal workers, university students, high-school teachers, and hairdressers—for ***opening pathways to creativity.*** Syllabus takes the course plan for Barry’s workshop and runs wild with it in her densely detailed signature style. Collaged texts, ballpoint-pen doodles, and watercolor washes adorn Syllabus’s yellow lined pages, which offer advice on finding a creative voice and using memories to inspire the writing process. Throughout it all, Barry’s voice (as an author and as a teacher-mentor) rings clear, inspiring, and honest.