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Creative writing
Session 1
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Creative writing as part of English• English communication skills • You need to be able to understand, describe and produce
English language for different and specific purposes. • Academic writing – a genre you need to master at the
university and can use elsewhere• Grammar – formal and functional understanding of the
English language• Basics of translation – comparative language skills
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Cntd.• Creative writing - will not teach you to be artists
• But you still have to study all four creative genres: fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. You will mainly produce creative non-fiction.
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Writing game 1
• Write a poem in five minutes.
• Reflect on the ’creativity’ of it. Is it creative? Why/why not? (Class discussion, but take notes for later use)
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Writing game 2
• Consider the following instructions. Try it out. Will it work as a way of getting your creative writing going?
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Instructions’Whatever you write is right. You can’t write the wrong thing!
It doesn’t even have to be in proper English. Write when and where you feel like it; day or night, in bed, in a café (difficult on a bike). Write only two lines, or lots – in a notebook, on scraps of paper, perhaps in a folder.
Scribble whatever comes into your head for 2 minutes – don’t stop to think! It might be a list, or odd words or phrases – spelling and proper sentences don’t matter!
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And the source:• Gillie Bolton, ’Writing or Pills’ in The Self on the Page, ed. Celia Hunt and
Fiona Sampson (Jessica Kingsley; 2002; first published 1998), p. 83
• FROM A PATIENT LEAFLET TO HELP ANXIOUS OR DEPRESSED PATIENTS!
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4 perceptions of writing
• Life-writing (me)
• Cultural practice (us)
• Dissemination (“Formidling”)(me and you)
• Professionalism (them)
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WRITING THE INVISIBLE• Something profound and invisible ‘comes out’ in writing. • ‘Whether the ‘source’ of the writing comes from ‘inspiration’ or from expressing
‘self’, that source cannot be seen. Writing does not involve any manipulation of pre-existing materials, beyond paper/screen, and pen/fingers. There is no musical instrument, no clay, no paint and canvas/paper, no marble. It is not structurally dependant on organised group activity: a choir or orchestra with a conductor, a drama group with a script and a director. It is stringently individuated, with its materials (source, as in the brain/mind; language as the means and mode) all invisible until words are put on paper. It is an imaginative mode of thought until organised in and through written language’
• BUT language is not magical and unteachable – it is cultural and acquired and applied through practical knowledge of its forms and written conventions.
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WRITING AS READING• If you don’t read, you cannot write. Read literary history, criticism, theory,
and aesthetics.
• All writing does not come from personal experience, but from reading, analysing and thinking about the above.
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WRITING AS WORK AND REWRITING• “All completed writing involves preparation, taking notes, writing
rough, perhaps fragmented versions, rewriting, producing drafts, revising, editing, proof-reading”
• The muse doesn’t hand down to writers complete and perfectly formed novels, poems or plays
• Writing is (hard) work.
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Myth 1
• Myth: you need inspiration to write – good writing begins spontaneously in an inspired moment
• Reality: Inspiration emerges from writing.
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Myth 2
• Myth: you have to think before you can write
• Reality : you think when you write or after you have written
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Myth 3
• Myth: you need a sense of control and coherence in your thinking before you can write.
• Reality: control and coherence appear when you write
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Myth 4
• Myth: it is important to begin well
• Reality : the best beginning is often written as the last thing. It is more important to begin at all than to begin well! begynde!
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Myth 5
• Myth: all texts must be original – you always have to write something new
• Reality: very little is thought, written or said which is completely new.
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Myth 6
• Myte: all texts must be flawless and perfect
• Reality: There is no such thing as a perfect text.
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Myth 7
• Myth; good writing progresses easily
• Reality: writing is full of ’relapses’. You need to rewrite, delete and be patient!
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Myth 8
• Myth: writing is most effective if you write in very long sessions, and writing demands long streches of uninterrupted time.
• Reality: the above leads to long breaks and getting burnt out. Creativity is arises from continuously working with writing
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Writing game 3
• Word Hoard (15 minutes)
• Finish as home work
• Post your writing on the blog
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Word hoard
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Word hoard 2
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For next week
• Post your writing on the blog (writing games 1 & 3)
• Bring the ingredients on the list on the next slide for next session...
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Data-ingredients for next week• 1 overheard conversation• 3 species of birds• 2 brand names for food• Text from 4 signs• The name of a planet or a star• The name of a lipstick• 1 time of day• The title of a book• The title of a painting• The name of a dead politician• 2 types of vegetables• 3 items from a hardware store• A make of gun