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What is Creative Writing? Millions of people do it, but how do we do it, really? What evidence of its undertaking does Creative Writing produce? How do we explore Creative Writing and how do we come to understand it? This book considers these questions and analyses the very human activity of Creative Writing.
List of contents
Acknowledgements IntroductionPart I. Concerning the Nature of Creative Writing 1. Creative Writing primarily involves finished works? 2. Acts and actions of Creative Writing can be observed in finished works? 3. No unfinished works are created by creative writers? 4. All works of Creative Writing are disseminated? 5. All dissemination of Creative Writing occurs, and has occurred, similarly? 6. There is always a direct relationship between acts and actions of Creative Writing and disseminated works? 7. The activities constituted as Creative Writing can always be grouped under the term 'process'?Part II. Concerning human engagement with Creative Writing. 8. All works of Creative Writing have aesthetic appeal? 9. All works of Creative Writing clearly communicate? 10. Intentions in Creative Writing are always met? 11. Creative Writing is solely an act or range of acts? 12. Personal and social activities relating to Creative Writing are always connected? 13. The personal and social activities of Creative Writing have equal status? 14. Communication and art always hold equal status in society?ConclusionBibliographyIndex
About the author
Graeme Harper is a Professor of Creative Writing at Oakland University, Michigan, USA. He is Series Editor of New Writing Viewpoints, as well as Editor of
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Graeme was the inaugural chair of the Higher Education Committee at the UK's National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE). He is an award-winning fiction writer and a former Commonwealth Scholar in Creative Writing.
Summary
What is Creative Writing? Millions of people do it, but how do we do it, really? What evidence of its undertaking does Creative Writing produce? How do we explore Creative Writing and how do we come to understand it? This book considers these questions and analyses the very human activity of Creative Writing.
