Writing Together: How to Transform Your Writing in a Writing Group

by Dawn Denham Haines, Jacqueline Raphael, Susan Newcomer

Writing may be a solitary art, but most writers still crave some sort of community. Thus the proliferation of the writing group, a source of camaraderie, encouragement, criticism, inspiration, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399523383
• ISBN13: 9780399523380
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Perigee Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Not quite what I hoped, but still a good book

When I purchased this book I was looking for more instruction on the basics of forming a writing group & keeping it together, as well as discussion of the group critique process. There was a very small amount of info on the above. The majority of the book focuses on the group writing together at their meetings using a word or sentence prompt. There is no discussion about outside work being brought into the group -- the way most writing groups operate. It was still worth the read, but lacked a well rounded presentation on writing groups -- related only to the one the authors' were members of. Sadly, not a keeper. I did give this book 4 stars though since it was well written and informative on other aspects of writing groups.

Useful, whether you start a writing group or not!

This book contains writing exercises that can be useful to you whether or not you join (or start) a writing group. I enjoyed this book because it discusses the writing process, and how the group experience can help/hinder it. Also, the authors point out the obstacles to maintaining a group over time, and give suggestions on how to handle such situations based on their own experience as members of the same women's writing group. Entertaining, if you want to find out what a writing group might be like before you join one.