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Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Creative writing & creative writing guides
What goes on in creative writers' heads when they write? What can
cognitive psychology, neuroscience, literary studies and previous
research in creative writing studies tell creative writers about
the processes of their writing mind? Creative writers have for
centuries undertaken cognitive research. Some described cognition
in vivid exegetical essays, but most investigated the mind in
creative writing itself, in descriptions of the thinking of
characters in fiction, poetry and plays. The inner voicings and
inner visualising revealed in Greek choruses, in soliloquies, in
stream-of-consciousness narratives are creative writers' 'research
results' from studying their own cognition, and the thinking of
others. The Creative Writer's Mind is a book for creative writers:
it sets out to cross the gap between creative writing and science,
between the creative arts and cognitive research.
Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's works are characterized by
such diversity that critics have sometimes had difficulty
identifying the pattern in his carpet. To redress this problem, In
Muse of Fire, Raymond-Jean Frontain has collected McNally's most
illuminating meditations on the need of the playwright to first
change hearts in order to change minds and thereby foster a more
compassionate community. When read together, these various
meditations demonstrate the profound ways in which McNally himself
functioned as a member of the theater community-as strikingly
original dramatic voice, as generous collaborator, and even as the
author of eloquent memorials. These pieces were originally written
to be delivered on both highly formal occasions (academic
commencement exercises, award ceremonies, memorial services) and as
off-the-cuff comments at highly informal gatherings, like a
playwriting workshop at the New School. They reveal a man who saw
theater not as the vehicle for abstract ideas or the platform for
political statements, but as the exercise of our shared humanity.
"Theatre is collaborative, but life is collaborative," McNally
says. "Art is important to remind us that we're not alone, and this
is a wonderful world and we can make it more wonderful by fully
embracing each other. [. . .] I don't know why it's so hard to
remind ourselves sometimes, but thank God we've had great artists
who don't let us forget. And thank the audiences who support them
because I think that those artists' true mission has been to bring
the barriers down, break them down; not build walls, but tear them
down."
Combo Split editions include half of the Student's Book content and
corresponding sections of the Workbook, with online access to
student resources.
'There are many guides to good writing but none as valuable as
this.' Oliver Kamm, author and columnist for The Times Creative
writing can enhance wellbeing, which can enhance creative writing,
which can enhance wellbeing ... Become a better writer with over
100 inspiring prompts, insights and exercises specially devised by
an award-winning author and creative writing teacher. Discover how
the practice of creative writing - being expressive, exploring
ideas, crafting words, shaping stories - can also deepen your
appreciation of life.
Notes from an experienced writer -- including examples from the
author's own work as well as the work of students -- highlight an
easily accessible beginner's guide to the art of story writing.
A Spectator Best Book of the Year `There are three rules for
writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. `Unfortunately, no
one knows what they are.' So how to bring characters to life, find
a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to),
or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets-writing a good
sex scene? Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on a
fascinating excursion into the lives and minds of our greatest
writers-from Balzac and Eliot to Woolf and Nabokov, through to
Zadie Smith and Stephen King, with a few mischievous detours to
Tolstoy along the way. In a glittering tour d'horizon, he lays bare
their tricks, motivations, techniques, obsessions and flaws.
Filled with practical advice from an award-winning playwright, with
a range of resources to guide you in the craft and business of
theatre writing, The Art of Writing for the Theatre provides
everything you need to write like a seasoned theatre professional,
including: * how to analyze and break down a script * how to write
a wide range of plays * how to critique a theatre production * how
to construct and craft critical essays, cover letters, and
theatrical resumes This thorough introduction is supplemented with
exercises and new interviews with a host of internationally
acclaimed playwrights, lyricists, and critics, including Marsha
Norman, Beth Henley, Lyn Gardner, Octavio Solis, Ismail Khalidi,
and David Zippel, among many others. Accompanying online resources
include playwriting and script analysis worksheets and exercises,
an example of a playwriting resume, and critical points to consider
on playwriting, design, acting, directing and choreography.
This book presents the innovative pedagogy of Writing Fantasy: a
method for exploring and shifting one's identity as a writer. The
book draws on qualitative research with undergraduate creative
writing students and fills a gap in the literature exploring
creative writing pedagogy and creative writing exercises. Based on
the potential to shift writer identity through creative writing
exercises and the common ground that these share with the stance of
the Lacanian analyst, the author provides a set of guidelines,
exercises and case studies to trace writing fantasy, evidenced in
one's creative writing texts and responses about creative writing.
This innovative work offers fresh insights for scholars of
creativity, Lacan and psychosocial studies, and a valuable new
resource for students and teachers of creative writing.
Maternal Journal is filled to the brim with ideas, support and
inspiration to create your very own journal through your pregnancy,
birth and parenthood. This easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated
book will help you explore your creative voice and develop a
regular journaling practice using artistic tools and techniques
that fit in with everyday parenting. Inside, you will find more
than 80 unique guided journal exercises created by leading artists,
midwives, doulas and therapists to boost your creativity and
wellbeing and help you reflect during this transformational stage
of your life. Write a list poem with poet Hollie McNish, build a
self-care alphabet with writer Laura Dockrill, or make your
journaling manifesto with writer and performer Bryony Kimmings. Be
a revolutionary mother with artist Barby Asante and explore daily
drawings with live artist Bobby Baker. Based on the award-winning
global community movement, led by artist and midwife Laura
Godfrey-Isaacs and communications and content producer Samantha
McGowan, Maternal Journal promotes the simple but radical concept
of expressing thoughts, feelings and experiences creatively in a
journal to promote positive mental health and wellbeing throughout
your parenting journey.
Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the
routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent
partners - the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors -
who make motherhood possible for them. Exploring experiences of
motherhood beyond the biological mother raising her child,
Everington draws on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary
approaches to produce illuminating personal testimonies which
expand our understanding of what it means to be a mother. The life
writing narratives also examine the unique and hidden relationships
that exist between adopters and birth mothers, egg donors and women
who become mothers through egg donation, and surrogates and women
who become mothers through surrogacy. Offering a fresh approach in
life writing, using hybrid form encompassing edited interview,
re-imagined scenes, poetry, personal essay and quotation collage,
this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in
motherhood studies, gender and women's studies, life writing
studies, the sociology of reproduction, creative non-fiction
writing approaches, oral history, and ethnography studies.
LEARN HOW TO WRITE SUCCESSFUL JOURNALISM, FEATURES AND ARTICLES FOR
PUBLICATION. Get Your Articles Published is a practical
step-by-step guide offering you the information you to learn about
the market, requirements, practicalities and skills needed to write
on a freelance basis for magazines, it covers all major genres from
mainstream and lifestyle through to more specialised subject areas.
With plenty of information on legalities and logistics, such as
writing to deadlines, the material is also accompanied by a range
of useful resources, from websites to books and relevant writers'
societies. By the end of this book, you will know how to research
not only your subject but also your target publication and its
readers, benefit from insider hints and tips from industry
professionals and learn how and what to submit and to whom. ABOUT
THE SERIES The Teach Yourself Creative Writing series helps
aspiring authors tell their story. Covering a range of genres from
science fiction and romantic novels, to illustrated children's
books and comedy, this series is packed with advice, exercises and
tips for unlocking creativity and improving your writing. And
because we know how daunting the blank page can be, we set up the
Just Write online community at tyjustwrite, for budding authors and
successful writers to connect and share.
Combo Split editions include half of the Student's Book content and
corresponding sections of the Workbook, with online access to
student resources.
Digital Storytelling and Ethics: Collaborative Creation and
Facilitation provides a method for analyzing digital storytelling
practices that focuses on the rhetorical, dialogic, co-productive,
creative story-making space rather than the finished stories or the
technologies. Looking through a new media lens, Amanda Hill
situates the digital storytelling genre and writing practice as a
co-creative media process created between writers, storytellers,
educators/facilitators, institutions, and the audience, and
discusses the inter-relationships within the collaborative writing
workshop as well as in those found in the dissemination of the
final digital stories. Digital Storytelling and Ethics provides a
reflexive look at the responsibility of the facilitator in
co-creative digital storytelling writing spaces and makes use of
diverse international case studies as examples. Hill shows that
writing educators/facilitators should interpret their roles within
the collaborative creation process. This will ensure that
responsible facilitation practices based in witnessing guide the
storytelling process and create an environment that treats
participants as subjects with the ability to respond to the world.
This innovative book is an essential read for collaborative digital
writers and facilitators.
Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association's "Jake Ryan and
Charles Sackrey Award for a Book about the Working-Class Academic
Experience" This collection by three generations of women from
predominantly working-class backgrounds explores the production of
the classed, gendered and racialized subject with powerful,
engaging, funny and moving stories of transitions through family
relationships, education, friendships and work. The developments
that take place across a life in processes of 'becoming' are
examined through the fifteen autoethnographies that form the core
of the book, set within an elaboration of the social, educational
and geo-political developments that constitute the backdrop to
contributors' lives. Clever Girls discusses the status of personal
experience as 'research data' and the memory work that goes into
the making of autoethnography-as-poiesis. The collection
illustrates the huge potential of autoethnography as research
method, mode of inquiry and creative practice to illuminate the
specificities and commonalities of experiences of growing up as
'clever girls' and to sound a 'call to action' against inequality
and discrimination.
Combo Split editions include half of the Student's Book content and
corresponding sections of the Workbook, with online access to
student resources.
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