Books by Stephen Lloyd Webber
The following books are available at Amazon.com.
The first three books are craft guides for creative writers, and the rest are part of my 2011 New Year’s resolution to put together twenty book-length creative projects.
The Haiku in English:
A Guide for Writers
A haiku is easily recognized as one of the most popular poetic forms.
Even those who do not write in many established forms find themselves writing haiku and admiring the art of haiku. Haiku poets feel rewarded by the richness of everyday experience. This feeling of life being exalted and intensified is part of the nature of a haiku. It is true with this form more than with any other that poetry is a means of living more fully.
This is both a spiritual and a practical guide for writers and admirers of the form.
Erotic Writing:
A Voice to Touch the Reader
When human beings go around in the world, they do so with their bodies. We are drenched in sensory phenomena.
This guide is for writers interested in a mode of writing that gives the reader an experience.
This type of writing is termed sensual because it invites the reader to feel, and erotic because it demonstrates closeness, even intimacy. Many times when we think of “erotic writing,” we assume that the writing is sexual in either intent or subject matter, though this is not always the case.
For an example of good erotic writing, you need look no further than most pieces of writing by Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman is especially sensual, and particularly erotic. His poetry, in many ways, sets the bar for what is expected by inspired, erotic poetry. His subject matter is enlivening, his tone is exalting, the speaker is close and generous, and his syntax is especially breath-giving—his long phrases, heard by the reader on the page or spoke aloud, are felt at the rhythm of deep, healthy, full breathing.
This is the kind of “invitation to feel” that erotic writing can send to the reader.
Writing from Direct Observation:
The Art of Description
This text digs deep into the thick of what propels different modes of descriptive writing to challenge you to observe again, and observe closer. The heart of dynamic descriptions is direct observation. Surprisingly, not a lot of books deal with this central concern, and it can be quite difficult to sort through the available research if you’re looking to improve your descriptive ability. If you’re looking for an original and exciting take on writing descriptively, this book is for you.
Domes, pillars, arches, nooks, and squares
(Color edition)
This collection of How To lines, aptly entitled How To, won’t make you financially rich, won’t make you an inch taller or ten pounds lighter, and won’t instruct you on how to win friends.
This book will not answer any questions, simple or difficult. This book will not explain anything for you. It consists of an extended series of one-line phrases beginning with “Why To”
Books in Progress:
Exotic Aquarium Fishes
Image and Resonance
Kirtimukha
Writing Immersion
Chiang Mai Travelogue
The Honeybee
Open On and On
The Last Three Feet of Fence
Cutter of Saints and Other Fables
Music with Constant Variation
Language Yoga: Meditations to Deepen Your Practice
Courting the Model
Pants in a Tree
Nature Is
A Heavy Shower
Schematics of Impossible Buildings, Including but Not Limited to Houses
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Leaving Oklahoma
The Soul
He Every So Often
Several Blind Faiths
Agriculture
The Pollen Path
Red Notebook Poems
Atmospheric Fragments
Playing Cards
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I am a fan and am super inspired to pursue my writing. I write from a painful place, and with lots of passion. It is my form of therapy and has been a great way of making me whole again.