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Creative Writing Practice: reflections on form and process explores the craft of creative writing by illuminating the practices of writers and writer-educators. Demonstrating solutions to problems in different forms and genres, the contributors draw on their professional and personal experiences to examine specific and practical challenges that writers must confront and solve in order to write.
This book discusses a range of approaches to writing, such as the early working out of projects, the idea of experimentation, of narrative time, and of failure. With its strong focus on process, Creative Writing Practice is a valuable guide for students, scholars and practitioners of creative writing.
List of contents
PART ONE.- THEORETICAL CHALLENGES: WORKING IT OUT.- CHAPTER 1 Debra Adelaide and Sarah Attfield - Introduction.- CHAPTER 2: Sarah Attfield - The Ethics of Working-Class Realism in Poetry.- CHAPTER 3:Sunil Badami - The Golden Rules [TO COME].- CHAPTER 4: Craig Batty - Screenwriting Beyond the Paradigms: creativethinking and script development [TO COME].- CHAPTER 5: Claire Corbett - Everything You Can Imagine is Real: worldbuilding, the donnée and the magic of writing.- CHAPTER 6: Margot Nash - Adaptation: essence and originality and radical transformation .- PART TWO PRACTICAL CHALLENGES: STARTING, STOPPING AND FAILING.- CHAPTER 7:Delia Falconer - The Writer's Notebook.- CHAPTER 8: Mark Rossiter - Prompting Creativity: revisiting Aristotle's advice on plot and character.- CHAPTER 9: Andrew Pippos - Trading hours: time, order, and narration in Lucky's .- CHAPTER 10: Gregory Ferris - Writing Without Frames.- CHAPTER 11: Debra Adelaide - The Corrections: succeeding at failure in the creative process.- PART THREE CONSOLIDATING THE PROCESS: SUCCESS AND RESILIENCE.- CHAPTER 12: Dave Drayton - Counting Coco Pops: on constraint and creativity.- CHAPTER 13: Sue Joseph - When Your Subjects Do Not Agree [DRAFT ONLY].- CHAPTER 14: Liz Giuffre - Critical Distance: creative writing as a critic-fan.- CHAPTER 15: Tom Lee - Art, Design and Communicating the Story: the cover of Coach Fitz.- CHAPTER 16: Mark Isaacs - Behrouz Boochani: writing as resilience and resistance.
About the author
Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of seventeen books, including novels, short fiction, and academic titles; she taught creative writing for twenty years until 2020, and is now an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Sarah Attfield is a poet and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, where she coordinates the undergraduate program; she is also co-editor of the Journal of Working-Class Studies.
