ENG217:  Personal and Exploratory Writing

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Books
  • Barrington, Judith.  Writing the Memoir, Eighth Mountain Press, 2002

  • Friedman, Bonnie.  Writing Past Dark : Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life, Perennial, 1994

  • Goldberg, Natalie.  Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life, Bantam, 1990

  • Holzer, Burghild Nina.  A Walk Between Heaven and Earth : A Personal Journal on Writing and the Creative Process, Three Rivers Press, 1994

  • Keen, Sam, and Anne Valley-Fox.  Your Mythic Journey: Finding Meaning in Your Life Through Writing and Storytelling, Tarcher, 1989

  • Keyes, Ralph.  The Courage to Write : How Writers Transcend Fear, Owl Books, 2003

  • Lamott, Anne.  Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anchor, 1995

  • Ledoux, Denis.  Turning Memories into Memoirs: A Handbook for Writing Lifestories, Soleil Press, 1993

  • McDonnell, Jane Taylor.  Living to Tell the Tale: A Guide to Writing Memoir, Penguin, 1998

  • Nelson, G. Lynn.  Writing and Being : Embracing Your Life Through Creative Journaling, Innisfree Press, 2004

  • Pearson, Carol S.  The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By, HarperSanFrancisco, 1998

  • Piercy, Marge, and Ira Wood.  So You Want To Write, Leapfrog Press, 2001

  • Rainer, Tristine.  Your Life As Story: Discovering the "New Autobiography" and Writing Memoir As Literature, Putnam, 1998

  • Selling, Bernard.  Writing from Within: A Guide to Creativity and Life Story Writing, Hunter House, 1997

  • Senn, Linda C.  The Many Faces of Journaling : Topics & Techniques for Personal Journal Writing, Pen Central Press, 2001

  • Weldon, Michele.  Writing to Save Your Life: How to Honor Your Story Through Journaling, Hazelden, 2001

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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

~Anne Sexton