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Teaching Creative Writing.
Teaching Creative Writing is designed to showcase practical approaches developed by practitioners in the ever-growing community of writers in higher education. Aimed at enabling those who teach the subject to review, borrow, and adapt ideas, the emphasis throughout is on diversity. Contributions fro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wicken :
Professional and Higher Partnership Ltd.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Creative Writing Studies, 2.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Disclaimer; Series information; Contents; Thematic index; Foreword; 1
- 'Who I am' icebreaker: establishing a group dynamic; 2
- Writing animals; 3
- Editing fiction: a process for creative critique; 4
- On warming up, close reading and sentences; 5
- Travel writing
- from classroom to Khartoum; 6
- The flexibility of free indirect style; 7
- The blue chip exercise: defying a single aspect of 'reality' in short fiction; 8
- Teaching aspects of minimalism: flash and micro fiction; 9
- Out of solitude: collaborative fiction writing.
- 10
- Being (in)famous: getting into character11
- Make your own manifesto: a playful approach to purposeful writing; 12
- Yoga on the page: moving into writing; 13
- Suasoria: arguing for and against a proposition; 14
- The (bridal) shop of ideas: shortcuts to inspiration; 15
- Using place in prose; 16
- Formal verse for the faint-hearted; 17
- Stylistic modelling: creative engagement with word classes and syntax; 18
- Working with desire to build plot; 19
- Poetry out loud: a performance poetry workshop; 20
- Using Web 2.0 in the creative writing workshop: blogs and wikis.
- 21
- Food writing: mobilising the five senses and personal memories22
- 'Digital lyre': conducting an audio workshop; 23
- To You or not to You? Using second person in prose; 24
- The paperless workshop: save trees, increase interaction, reduce preciousness; 25
- Put it on a postcard: capturing the poetic moment in prose; 26
- Finding a suitable narrative voice when writing for children; 27
- Writing with Shakespeare and Montaigne: past practices for future writers; 28
- Earth, Air, Fire and Water: a writing and performance workshop; 29
- Gift wraps: a collaborative poetry game.
- 30
- Write what you know: fictionalising every day experience31
- Structuring the perfect short story: how to create a strong plot arc; 32
- Hands-on activities for experimental drama: crafting and directing spectacles; 33
- Exploring multiple viewpoints to create compelling narratives; 34
- Teaching the critical reflective essay; 35
- How to write a bad poem; 36
- Considering connotation: the impact and implications of language in poetry; 37
- Whatever!: exploring the 'authentic voice' in young-adult fiction; 38
- 'Give and take': getting a stage play on its feet.
- 39
- Start where you are: read what you know40
- Writing suspense(fully); 41
- Other talents: 'doing creative (writing)'; 42
- Fascinating rhythm: teaching songwriting
- a multi-modal experience; 43
- Leaving the comfort zone: against practicality and rationality; 44
- Flights of fancy: writing from myth; 45
- Found poetry workshop; 46
- 30/30 projects: developing a daily writing habit; 47
- Using guided walks in creative writing: wandering, observing, describing; 48
- Researching for the fiction writer; 49
- Writing with the masters: finding creativity in copying.
- 50
- Describing with feeling: evoking style, tone and emotion in script scene directions.