Discovering Creative Writing

Author : Graeme Harper
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788928489

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Discovering Creative Writing by Graeme Harper Pdf

This is a book about discovering how you do creative writing. How you begin, how you structure, how your writing process works, how a work embodies movement and change, what influences you, and, ultimately, how you end. Discovering Creative Writing points you toward clues that can assist you in understanding your own creative writing as well as the creative writing of others. This book is both a practical guide and a critical examination that empowers the reader to find things out and use that information to develop and support their own creative writing. This book will enable students of creative writing at both undergraduate and postgraduate level to deepen their understanding of their practice, and will be a valuable guide and inspiration for anyone wishing to begin, continue, or improve their writing.

Author : Elise Valmorbida
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781399613583

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The Happy Writing Book by Elise Valmorbida Pdf

'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.

Author : Celia Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136734021

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Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing by Celia Hunt Pdf

Arising from a research project conducted over two years, Transformative Learning through Creative Life Writing examines the effects of fictional autobiography on adult learners’ sense of self. Starting from a teaching and learning perspective, Hunt draws together ideas from psychodynamic psychotherapy, literary and learning theory, and work in the cognitive and neurosciences of the self and consciousness, to argue that creative life writing undertaken in a supportive learning environment, alongside opportunities for critical reflection, has the power to transform the way people think and learn. It does this by opening them up to a more embodied self-experience, which increases their awareness of the source of their thinking in bodily feeling and enables them to develop a more reflexive approach to learning. Hunt locates this work within recent developments in the influential field of transformative learning. She also identifies it as a form of therapeutic education arguing, contrary to those who say that this approach leads to a diminished sense of self, that it can help people to develop a stronger sense of agency, whether for writing or learning or relations with others. Topics covered include: Creative writing as a tool for personal and professional development The transformative benefits and challenges of creative writing as a therapeutic activity The relationships between literary structures and the processes of thinking and feeling The role of cognitive-emotional learning in adult education Collaborative learning and the role of the group This book will interest teachers in adult, further and higher education who wish to use creative life writing as a tool for learning, as well as health care professionals seeking art-based techniques for use in their practice. It will also prove useful to academics interested in the relationship between education and psychotherapy, and in the theory and practice of transformative learning. Additionally, it will appeal to writers seeking a deeper understanding of the creative process.

Author : Maggie Hamand
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470742914

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Creative Writing For Dummies by Maggie Hamand Pdf

Unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best Do you have an idea that you’re burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places, or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist, a travel writer, a poet, a playwright or a columnist, Creative Writing For Dummies shows you how to unlock your creativity and choose the genre of writing that suits you best. Walking you through characterisation, setting, dialogue and plot, as well as giving expert insights into both fiction and non-fiction, it’s the ideal launching pad to the world of creative writing. Creative Writing For Dummies covers: Part I: Getting started Chapter 1: Can Everyone Write? Chapter 2: Getting into the Write Mind Chapter 3: Finding the Material to work with Part II: The Elements of Creative Writing Chapter 4: Creating Characters Chapter 5: Discovering Dialogue Chapter 6: Who is telling the story? Chapter 7: Creating your own world Chapter 8: Plotting your way Chapter 9: Creating a Structure Chapter 10: Rewriting and editing Part III: Different Kinds of Fiction Writing Chapter 11: Short stories Chapter 12: Novels Chapter 13: Writing for children Chapter 14: Plays Chapter 15: Screenplays Chapter 16: Poetry Part IV: Different kinds of Non-fiction writing Chapter 17: Breaking into journalism - Writing articles/ magazine writing Chapter 18: Writing from life and autobiography Chapter 19: Embroidering the facts: Narrative non-fiction Chapter 20: Exploring the world from your armchair - Travel writing Chapter 21: Blogging – the new big thing Part V: Finding an audience Chapter 22: Finding editors/ publishers/ agents Chapter 23: Becoming a professional Part VI: Part of Tens Chapter 24: Ten top tips for writers Chapter 25: Ten ways to get noticed

Author : Myra Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Creative writing
ISBN : 0760709963

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Writing for Self-discovery by Myra Schneider Pdf

Author : Graham Ramsay,Holly Sweet
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781846428661

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A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life by Graham Ramsay,Holly Sweet Pdf

An award-winning psychologist and professional photographer join forces in writing this unique creative guide to exploring and understanding your life: who you are, what you value, and what you wish to achieve. A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life brims with imaginative exercises and examples that use the power of photography, art, and writing as tools for self-discovery. It provides clear and accessible guidance on how to explore different parts of your identity: take a photograph of yourself in a role you don't typically play, draw a visual timeline of your life and consider its key turning points; explore your sense of place in history by writing about a major historical event that has changed your life. Exercises are accompanied by searching questions for self-reflection, and are complemented by examples of each exercise to provoke ideas and inspiration. Featuring additional guidance for teachers, counselors, and other professionals running the exercises in group settings, this book offers a dynamic and enjoyable way for you to explore different aspects of your life.

Author : Graeme Harper
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443852135

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New Ideas in the Writing Arts by Graeme Harper Pdf

New Ideas in the Writing Arts has come about because recent changes taking place in educational settings have influenced the ways in which learners and teachers are exploring Creative Writing. The worldwide growth of Creative Writing as a formal subject of study in universities and colleges has generated explorations that appear now to be at the tip of an even greater range of explorations that promise to be undertaken in coming years. When titling this book, the intention was to say that we should consider what might currently be new, what might be explored, what might be introduced to a writer who has not thought of investigating certain aspects of Creative Writing or undertaking Creative Writing in a certain way. Such freshness can often produce a development in a writer’s own work. Our 21st century development of research in Creative Writing undertaken by creative writers through writing practice and through a critical engagement with Creative Writing that begins in writing practice is already unearthing new ways of thinking about Creative Writing and new ways of undertaking it too. New Ideas in the Writing Arts presents explorations of Creative Writing fresh from explorers of Creative Writing who have incorporated into their work ideas discovered in creative practice and ideas explored critically because of creative practice. Readers will discover in the tone and trajectory of the chapters a serious engagement with how to determine current knowledge, how to confirm or challenge that knowledge, and broadly how to progress our knowledge of Creative Writing. Practical considerations prevail, and there is a clear sense in which Creative Writing is an activity, not a static thing to be examined in a fixed state and discussed as a completed object. Rather, Creative Writing in this book is a range of events and their results, a human activity that draws on many individual actions, cultural and historical contexts, and, in its undertaking, presents evidence that reflects on the knowledge and belief that informs and produces it.

Author : Graeme Harper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 144389561X

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Exploring Creative Writing by Graeme Harper Pdf

Author : MEA: SECONDARY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1458650898

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Make Your Mark: HSC Creative Task Workbook by MEA: SECONDARY Pdf

Author : Graeme Harper
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847693921

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On Creative Writing by Graeme Harper Pdf

What is Creative Writing? Millions of people do it, but how do we do it, really? What evidence of its human undertaking does Creative Writing produce? How do we explore Creative Writing, as both an art form and a mode of communication? How do we come to understand Creative Writing, creatively and critically? Posing questions about the nature of Creative Writing, On Creative Writing asks us to consider what Creative Writing actually is, and in doing so encourages us to reflect on how our knowledge of Creative Writing can be increased. Emphasizing Creative Writing as an act and actions, On Creative Writing considers what lies at the core of the activity called Creative Writing.

Author : Elise Valmorbida
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781399613583

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The Happy Writing Book by Elise Valmorbida Pdf

'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.

Author : Phillips, Richard,Kara, Helen
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447356004

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Creative Writing for Social Research by Phillips, Richard,Kara, Helen Pdf

This groundbreaking book brings creative writing to social research. Its innovative format includes creatively written contributions by researchers from a range of disciplines, modelling the techniques outlined by the authors. The book is user-friendly and shows readers: • how to write creatively as a social researcher; • how creative writing can help researchers to work with participants and generate data; • how researchers can use creative writing to analyse data and communicate findings. Inviting beginners and more experienced researchers to explore new ways of writing, this book introduces readers to creatively written research in a variety of formats including plays and poems, videos and comics. It not only gives social researchers permission to write creatively but also shows them how to do so.

Author : Graeme Harper
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1443889830

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Exploring Creative Writing by Graeme Harper Pdf

This volume offers a collection of articles based on presentations given in recent years at the annual Great Writing International Creative Writing conference. The collection both identifies work being undertaken in the field and will actively encourage others to explore, to present and to discuss their own work in the practice and critical examination of creative writing. Creative writers included in this book are based in a number of locations around the world, including the USA, the UK, Australia, China, Korea, Finland and Greece.

Author : John S. Couch
Publisher : John Couch
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781989025956

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The Art of Creative Rebellion by John S. Couch Pdf

Can a creative mind thrive in a corporate landscape? Can a business leader use creativity to guide teams more effectively? From one of today’s leading creative minds comes a book for modern rebels on building a rewarding life without losing your edge. Written for uncompromising creative thinkers and aspiring changemakers, The Art of Creative Rebellion encapsulates insights and wisdom collected over a life of creative and professional prosperity. In these frank and insightful reflections, John S. Couch shares with young free thinkers the uncompromising principles needed to thrive in a world that seems to reward conformity. Above all, The Art of Creative Rebellion is a guide to shaping a life, career and reality that nourishes the spirit and feeds the soul—without compromises or apologies.

Author : Karen Benke
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781590308127

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Rip the Page! by Karen Benke Pdf

Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap from; dares and double dares to help you mash up truths and lies into outrageous paragraphs; and letters of encouragement written directly to you from famous authors, including: Annie Barrows, Naomi Shihab Nye, Lemony Snicket, C. M. Mayo, Elizabeth Singer Hunt, Moira Egan, Gary Soto, Lucille Clifton, Avi, Betsy Franco, Carol Edgarian, Karen Cushman, Patricia Polacco, Prartho Sereno, Lewis Buzbee, and C. B. Follett. This is your journal for inward-bound adventures—use it to write, brainstorm, explore, imagine—and even rip!