Syllabus : Notes From an Accidental Professor EPUB

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.