A Companion to Creative Writing
A Companion to Creative Writingcomprehensively considers key aspects of the practice, profession and culture of creative writing in the contemporary world.The most comprehensive collection specifically relating to the practices and cultural and professional place of creative writingCovers not only t...
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| Format | eBook Book |
| Language | English |
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Chichester
Wiley-Blackwell
2013
Willey-Blackwell Wiley John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated Wiley-Blackwell is an imprint of John Wiley & Sons |
| Edition | 1. Aufl. |
| Series | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
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| Online Access | Get full text |
| ISBN | 9780470656938 047065693X 111832577X 9781118325773 1118325753 9781118325759 |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118325759 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword by Sir Andrew Motion -- Introduction -- Part I: Creative Writing -- 1: The Architecture of Story -- To Build a Story -- Drafting the Blueprint: Prewriting -- Building Materials: The Elements of Fiction -- Pouring the Foundation: Characterization -- Framing: Perspective -- Construction: The Writing Process -- References -- 2: Writing Creative Nonfiction -- Genres in Creative Nonfiction -- Memoir -- The personal essay -- Observations of travel, nature, and culture -- Journalistic creative nonfiction -- Writing Approaches -- Invention -- Form -- Authorial position -- Truth, Ethics, and Representation -- References -- 3: Writing Poetry -- Definitions -- Poetry as Knowledge -- Poetry and the Generation of Knowledge -- Poetry as Discovery in Action -- Poetry as a Cycle of Making Knowledge -- References -- 4: Writing for Children and Young Adults -- Overview of the Children's and Young Adult Market -- Picture books -- Middle-grade novels -- Young adult novels -- Early readers, board books, and graphic novels -- What the future holds -- Audience Analysis -- Children -- Pre-teens -- Teens -- Recommended Resources -- Books -- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators -- Websites -- Courses and M.F.A. programs -- Review journals -- Where You Fit In -- Alternate routes to publication -- The traditional route to publication -- Connecting with children and teens -- Your Voice, Your Story -- References -- 5: Write On! Practical Strategies for Developing Playwriting -- Genre and Narrative -- Exercise 1 -- Exercise 2 -- Structure -- Exercise -- Characterization, Dialogue, and Conflict -- Exercise -- Finding an Audience: A Conclusion -- Recommended Plays -- 6: Writing for Sound/Radio -- What Do We Mean by Radio? -- For Whom Are We Writing?
- Do We Hope to Earn Meaningful Income from Writing for Sound? -- By What Process Does a Writer Get Work Made for BBC Radio? -- What Other Avenues Are There in the Writing and Production of Creative Work in Sound? -- Conclusion -- References and Further Reading -- Online Audio Sites -- 7: Writing the Screenplay -- The Nature of Screenwriting -- Working with Ideas -- The World of Your Story -- Understanding Character -- Dealing with Structure -- Writing Visually -- Using Voiceover -- Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- 8: New Media Writing -- New Media, New Storytelling Opportunities -- Characters in Works of New Media -- Plot in Works of New Media -- Structure in Works of New Media -- The Unique Characteristics of New Media Narratives -- The Must-Haves of the New Media Writer -- References and Further Reading -- 9: How to Make a Pocket Watch: The British Ph.D. in Creative Writing -- Research in Creative Writing? -- Beginnings -- Middles -- Endings -- Consequences -- References -- 10: Creative Writing and the Other Arts -- A Capacious Sphere of Writing -- The Writing-PAD Project and Network -- Duality Imposed -- A& -- D Knowing, Being, Making -- Creative Writings -- Writing in Creative Practice, the Intellect Journal (2007-) -- Writing Experiments: Some Acts and Actions -- The game element -- The collaborative -- Designing tools -- Drawing and spontaneity -- Fresh angles and the question of the new -- The surprise elements - and awkwardness -- Time -- Silence -- Discipline -- Pleasure -- Rhythms, the physical, the material -- The primary -- The speculative and the established -- Stuff, toward phenomenology -- The surprise element and the nature of words -- Some transformations -- Limits and strengths -- The place of words -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: The Creative Writer's Profession
- Expressivist or Pragmatist: The Writer-Teacher Tradition and the Valuing of Writerly Experience -- Writer-Teacher and Teacher-Writer Identities: Self-Identification and Self-Representation in Composition Studies -- A Writer-Teacher in Composition Studies Is Often a Teacher-Writer -- McPoem = The Poetic Mode: Some Further Thoughts on the Writer-Teacher and the Teacher-Writer -- References -- 28: Creative Writing to the Future -- Aspects of the Past -- New Technologies of the Late Twentieth Century -- Tools Support Products -- Books and Bookstores -- Creative Writing and Education -- Revising the Present -- Engaging in and Responding to the Future -- References -- Index
- 11: Agents, Publishers, and Booksellers: A Historical Perspective -- The Evolution of the Publishing Industry -- The Business of Publishing -- Agents, Authors, and Publishers -- Making the Contemporary Publishing Industry -- The Retail Revolution: The Remaking of British Bookselling -- References and Further Reading -- 12: The Changing Role of the Editor: Editors Past, Present, and Future -- Terminology -- The Origins and Rise of Editors -- The Editor's Responsibilities -- Decision-Making and Market Nous -- The Commissioning Process -- The Publishing Web -- Other Types of Editor -- Editorial Skills -- Modern Commissioning Editors: Working beyond the Call of Duty? -- The Death of the Editor? -- References and Further Reading -- 13: Translation as Creative Writing -- Writers as Translators -- The Nature of Translation and Adaptation -- Translators as Writers -- References -- 14: Creative Writing and "the lash of criticism" -- Taking Sides -- Where Is Criticism? -- "The 'ordinary' reader, the living writer, the professional critic, the academic theorist, and the amateur scholar" -- Academics, Critics, Canons, and Public Spheres -- The Public Sphere -- The Creative Work -- The Writer, the Reader, the Critic -- References -- Further Reading -- Journals -- 15: But What's Really at Stake for the Barbarian Warrior? Developing a Pedagogy for Paraliterature -- References -- 16: Creative Writing and Education -- The Writer in the Schools -- The Writer in the Community -- The Writer in Higher Education -- Conclusion: The Global Writer in Education -- References -- 17: The Rise and Rise of Writers' Festivals -- Writers' Festivals and Geography -- Peripheral and International Writers' Festivals -- Writers' Festivals as Sites of Public Culture -- Writers' Festivals and the Digital -- References -- 18: Creative Writing Research -- Practice-Led Research
- Research or Creative Activities? -- Critical Understanding -- Reflection, Reflexivity, Response -- Research about Creative Writing -- Research Using Creative Writing -- The Excitement and the Challenges -- Conclusion -- References -- 19: Literary Prizes and Awards -- The History and Development of Literary Prize Culture and Scholarship -- The Booker Prize -- Contemporary Literary Prize Culture -- References -- Part III: Creative Writing in the World -- 20: D.H. Lawrence, Forever on the Move: Creative Writers and Place -- References and Further Reading -- 21: The Psychology of Creative Writing -- The Creative Writer -- The Creative Writing Process -- Conclusion -- References -- 22: Creative Writing around the World -- What Is Culture? -- Intercultural Writing -- Language, Culture, and Creative Writing -- References -- 23: Creative Hauntings: Creative Writing and Literary Heritage at the British Library -- References -- 24: Politics -- References -- 25: Creative Writing and the Cold War University -- References -- 26: "To the imagination, the sacred is self-evident": Thoughts on Spirituality and the Vocation of Creative Writing -- "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" -- "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images" -- "Thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain" -- "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" -- "Honor thy father and thy mother" -- "Thou shalt not kill" -- "Thou shalt not commit adultery" -- "Thou shalt not steal" -- "Thou shalt not bear false witness" -- "Thou shalt not covet" -- Conclusion -- References -- 27: The Writer-Teacher in the United States: The Place of Teachers in the Community of Writers -- Puritanism, Emerson and "an indestructible instinct" -- Pragmatism: "the common air that bathes the globe" and Individual Experience
- 27: The Writer-Teacher in the United States: The Place of Teachers in the Community of Writers -- Puritanism, Emerson and "an indestructible instinct" -- Pragmatism: "the common air that bathes the globe" and Individual Experience -- Expressivist or Pragmatist: The Writer-Teacher Tradition and the Valuing of Writerly Experience -- Writer-Teacher and Teacher-Writer Identities: Self-Identification and Self-Representation in Composition Studies -- A Writer-Teacher in Composition Studies Is Often a Teacher-Writer -- McPoem = The Poetic Mode: Some Further Thoughts on the Writer-Teacher and the Teacher-Writer -- 28: Creative Writing to the Future -- Aspects of the Past -- New Technologies of the Late Twentieth Century -- Tools Support Products -- Books and Bookstores -- Creative Writing and Education -- Revising the Present -- Engaging in and Responding to the Future -- Index
- The Must-Haves of the New Media Writer -- 9: How to Make a Pocket Watch: The British Ph.D. in Creative Writing -- Research in Creative Writing? -- Beginnings -- Middles -- Endings -- Consequences -- 10: Creative Writing and the Other Arts -- A Capacious Sphere of Writing -- The Writing-PAD Project and Network -- Duality Imposed -- A& -- D Knowing, Being, Making -- Creative Writings -- Writing in Creative Practice, the Intellect Journal (2007-) -- Writing Experiments: Some Acts and Actions -- Conclusions -- Part II: The Creative Writer's Profession -- 11: Agents, Publishers, and Booksellers: A Historical Perspective -- The Evolution of the Publishing Industry -- The Business of Publishing -- Agents, Authors, and Publishers -- Making the Contemporary Publishing Industry -- The Retail Revolution: The Remaking of British Bookselling -- 12: The Changing Role of the Editor: Editors Past, Present, and Future -- Terminology -- The Origins and Rise of Editors -- The Editor's Responsibilities -- Decision-Making and Market Nous -- The Commissioning Process -- The Publishing Web -- Other Types of Editor -- Editorial Skills -- Modern Commissioning Editors: Working beyond the Call of Duty? -- The Death of the Editor? -- 13: Translation as Creative Writing -- Writers as Translators -- The Nature of Translation and Adaptation -- Translators as Writers -- 14: Creative Writing and "the lash of criticism" -- Taking Sides -- Where Is Criticism? -- "The 'ordinary' reader, the living writer, the professional critic, the academic theorist, and the amateur scholar" -- Academics, Critics, Canons, and Public Spheres -- The Public Sphere -- The Creative Work -- The Writer, the Reader, the Critic -- 15: But What's Really at Stake for the Barbarian Warrior?: Developing a Pedagogy for Paraliterature -- 16: Creative Writing and Education -- The Writer in the Schools
- The Writer in the Community -- The Writer in Higher Education -- Conclusion: The Global Writer in Education -- 17: The Rise and Rise of Writers' Festivals -- Writers' Festivals and Geography -- Peripheral and International Writers' Festivals -- Writers' Festivals as Sites of Public Culture -- Writers' Festivals and the Digital -- 18: Creative Writing Research -- Practice-Led Research -- Research or Creative Activities? -- Critical Understanding -- Reflection, Reflexivity, Response -- Research about Creative Writing -- Research Using Creative Writing -- The Excitement and the Challenges -- Conclusion -- 19: Literary Prizes and Awards -- The History and Development of Literary Prize Culture and Scholarship -- The Booker Prize -- Contemporary Literary Prize Culture -- Part III: Creative Writing in the World -- 20: D.H. Lawrence, Forever on the Move: Creative Writers and Place -- 21: The Psychology of Creative Writing -- The Creative Writer -- The Creative Writing Process -- Conclusion -- 22: Creative Writing around the World -- What Is Culture? -- Intercultural Writing -- Language, Culture, and Creative Writing -- 23: Creative Hauntings: Creative Writing and Literary Heritage at the British Library -- 24: Politics -- 25: Creative Writing and the Cold War University -- 26: "To the imagination, the sacred is self-evident": Thoughts on Spirituality and the Vocation of Creative Writing -- "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" -- "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images" -- "Thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain" -- "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" -- "Honor thy father and thy mother" -- "Thou shalt not kill" -- "Thou shalt not commit adultery" -- "Thou shalt not steal" -- "Thou shalt not bear false witness" -- "Thou shalt not covet" -- Conclusion
- Intro -- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword by Sir Andrew Motion -- Introduction -- Part I: Creative Writing -- 1: The Architecture of Story -- To Build a Story -- Drafting the Blueprint: Prewriting -- Building Materials: The Elements of Fiction -- Pouring the Foundation: Characterization -- Framing: Perspective -- Construction: The Writing Process -- 2: Writing Creative Nonfiction -- Genres in Creative Nonfiction -- Writing Approaches -- Truth, Ethics, and Representation -- 3: Writing Poetry -- Definitions -- Poetry as Knowledge -- Poetry and the Generation of Knowledge -- Poetry as Discovery in Action -- Poetry as a Cycle of Making Knowledge -- 4: Writing for Children and Young Adults -- Overview of the Children's and Young Adult Market -- Audience Analysis -- Recommended Resources -- Where You Fit In -- Your Voice, Your Story -- 5: Write On! Practical Strategies for Developing Playwriting -- Genre and Narrative -- Structure -- Characterization, Dialogue, and Conflict -- Finding an Audience: A Conclusion -- Recommended Plays -- 6: Writing for Sound/Radio -- What Do We Mean by Radio? -- For Whom Are We Writing? -- Do We Hope to Earn Meaningful Income from Writing for Sound? -- By What Process Does a Writer Get Work Made for BBC Radio? -- What Other Avenues Are There in the Writing and Production of Creative Work in Sound? -- Conclusion -- 7: Writing the Screenplay -- The Nature of Screenwriting -- Working with Ideas -- The World of Your Story -- Understanding Character -- Dealing with Structure -- Writing Visually -- Using Voiceover -- Conclusion -- 8: New Media Writing -- New Media, New Storytelling Opportunities -- Characters in Works of New Media -- Plot in Works of New Media -- Structure in Works of New Media -- The Unique Characteristics of New Media Narratives