1st Edition

Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing A Reader

Edited By Graeme Harper Copyright 2024
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing 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 authors in this book, who are both practitioners and researchers,... Read more

Introduction: Stimulus, Intention and Process in Creative Writing

Graeme Harper

 

1. The breathing story: fiction as a tool for living

Jacob White

 

2. Toward a pedagogy of intentionality

Jon Udelson

 

3. Stimulus in creative writing: wrangling the experiential unresolved

Julia Prendergast

 

4. The motivations that improve the creative writing process: what they might be and why we should study them

C. Connor Syrewicz

 

5. Liminality and process: strategies for the creative writing classroom

Shady Ellen Cosgrove

 

6. Creative rewriting and recontextualisation: fluid and shapeshifting literary works

Paul Hetherington

 

7. Mantra of intention

Alexandria Peary

 

8. Interview with Tim Mayers

Tim Mayers

Biography

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.