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| Breathing In, Breathing Out: Keeping a Writer's Notebook | 
 enlarge | Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: Heinemann
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 114308
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0435072277
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.02
EAN: 9780435072278
ASIN: 0435072277
Publication Date: November 18, 1996
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Writers both new and experienced will appreciate [Fletcher's] clear and straightforward advice on how a writer's notebook can be used to find one's own voice and inner truth.
- KLIATT Keeping a notebook may be the single best way to survive as a writer. It encourages a greater sensitivity to your world, inside and out. It serves as a haven for new ideas until they are strong and mature enough to face the harsh light of rational judgment. It gives you a quiet place to catch your breath and begin writing. Breathing In, Breathing Out is a book for the writer in each one of us, however lost, however buried. Ralph Fletcher takes a probing look into the nature of a writer's notebook, examining what it is, how writers use it, and what makes it tick. You will discover why writers like Naomi Shihab Nye and Dorothy Allison consider their notebooks so important to the work they create. You will also read snippets from Fletcher's notebook, where he reveals the "displayed self" of a writer whose innermost workings he knows best. To Fletcher, keeping a writer's notebook is as natural an activity as breathing so he has organized his book in a way that illuminates two basic aspects of the process. Breathing In refers to the way the notebook can serve as a receptacle for selected insights, lines, images, dreams, and fragments of conversations. In this way it helps you pay closer attention to your world. Breathing Out is intended to suggest the notebook as an ideal place to use what you have collected and spark your own original writing. This book is for new writers as well as those who may have once loved to write but have lost the spark along the way. It will help you find a natural rhythm for using a notebook and in the process start living the life of a writer.
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Easy Read June 23, 2008
Fletcher leads the reader through the value of keeping a writer's notebook in his easy read Breathing In, Breathing Out. He offers valuable insights, experiences and ideas as to how to begin, keep, and find inspiration for a writer's notebook. Although this book does not lay out practical applications for the classroom, it does speak easily to those who like to write.
Breath in Breathing In, Breathing Out June 23, 2008
In Breathing In, Breathing Out, Ralph Fletcher empowers the reader with the concept of a writer's notebook. Through realistic and exposing examples, Fletcher shows not only the workings of his own writer's notebook but also those of other authors, published and non-published alike. Written in a logical order of digestible chapters, Fletcher guides his reader through what may be uncharted territory, ultimately succeeding at sharing his suggestions of nonconformity for writing. As a teacher, Fletcher's book has assisted me in not only rethinking my own writer's notebook but how I use writing notebooks in my classes as well. Though a good read, the limitations of Breathing In, Breathing Out are limited to classroom use, though with some hands-on application work it easily could be adapted for any classroom.
 simple basic reminders April 11, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
i already keep several writing journals in various locations. They all come in handy at inconvient times, driving, showering sleeping and hiking, but gratly needed in case my brain is poor at recall. Much is common sense as writers should already be noticing the world aroud them and all that detail has to offer. our writing group has selected this book to help jog our memories for the basic simple reminders that are important and those which are not. A great read for a beginning writer. Take notes along the way, don't be afraid to underline and make notes on the edge of the pages as you read. Enjoy the exercises.
A good resource for writers. May 2, 2000
26 out of 33 found this review helpful
The only thing I didn't like about this book was the price. A writer's notebook, or what I refer to as a writer's journal, is where ideas are born. The author shows you how to capture those ideas, fertilize them, and grow them into real live pieces worth publishing. An excellent book that includes excerpts from several writer's journals, including the author's.
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