TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barry, Lynda
TI  - Syllabus: : notes from an accidental professor
SN  - 9781770461611
AV  - PN6727.B36 S95 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - [Montreal]
PB  - Drawn & Quarterly
KW  - Barry, Lynda
KW  - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Art and literature
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Creative writing
KW  - Graphic novels
N1  - Title from book cover
N2  - 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
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