Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing - A Reader

This book explores three exciting and key areas of creative writing practice and understanding. What stimulates a writer to write - or to write a particular piece? What do they intend to achieve when they do it? And is there a process we can study and perhaps even understand? The chapters were originally published in New Writing.

List of contents

Introduction: Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing 1. The breathing story: fiction as a tool for living 2. Toward a pedagogy of intentionality 3. Stimulus in creative writing: wrangling the experiential unresolved 4. The motivations that improve the creative writing process: what they might be and why we should study them 5. Liminality and process: strategies for the creative writing classroom 6. Creative rewriting and recontextualisation: fluid and shapeshifting literary works 7. Mantra of intention 8. Interview with Tim Mayers

About the author

Graeme Harper is the Editor of New Writing. He is former Chair of Higher Education at the UK's National Association of Writers in Education and the Chair of the Creative Writing Studies Organization in the USA. He holds doctorates from the University of East Anglia and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Summary

This book explores three exciting and key areas of creative writing practice and understanding. What stimulates a writer to write – or to write a particular piece? What do they intend to achieve when they do it? And is there a process we can study and perhaps even understand? The chapters were originally published in New Writing.

Product details

• Authors: Graeme Harper
• Assisted by: Graeme Harper (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781032637181
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3263718-1
• No. of pages: 114
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