�Bly provides excellent discussions�of the writer�s craft, but she also delves deeper�. She excels at coaxing
writers�toward a larger vision of life and literature.�
--The Plain Dealer on The Passionate, Accurate Story
Random House Web Site, February, 2002
Summary
An innovative new approach to teaching and writing creative nonfiction from veteran teacher and critically acclaimed
author Carol Bly.
Teachers and writers everywhere are facing the limits imposed by the prevailing models of teaching: community
or MFA �workshops� or, at the high-school level, �peer review.� In Beyond the Writers' Workshop Carol Bly presents
an alternative. She believes that workshopping�s tendency to engage in wry scorn and pay exaggerated attention
to technical details, causes apprentice writers, consciously or unconsciously, to modify their most passionate
work.
Inspired by a philosophy of individuality and moral rigor, Bly combines ideas and techniques from social work,
psychotherapy, and neuroscience with the traditional teaching of fresh metaphor, salient dialogue, lively pace,
and analysis of other literary work in her pioneering new approach. She also includes exercises and examples in
an extensive practical appendix.