Creative Writing

Finding out about yourself

through

the art of Creative Writing

Introduction

Define

Site of self-construction

Site of knowledge

Writing for an audience

Conclusion – knowing/being

Definition

Creative writing is anything where the purpose is

to express thoughts, feelings and emotions rather than to simply convey information.

Who on earth am I?

peers• work• uni

home

• parent• child• spouse

setting• country• era

‘No one writes in complete isolation, and issues of race, gender, power and politics are always relevant forces that deeply affect writers and their writing.’

Jeff Park

Site of self-construction

SELF

Race

Politics

GenderReligion

Culture

Personal filters

To clone or not to clone?

seeing

understanding

representing

‘the ways of telling and the ways of conceptualising that go with them … they finally become recipes for structuring experience itself’

Jerome Bruner

Life’s experience Interpreting the world around us

Site of knowledge

“Knowledge is … generally defined as … something along the lines of ‘justified true belief ’ ”

Graeme Harper

YouTube - Inspiring flicbits - Imagine what you will know tomorrow

LogicalDevelopmental

ContextMeaning

Right brain

Left brain

Writing for an audience

Relating personal experien

ces

Audience perspectiv

e

‘When I write, it is with an emphasis on the sharing of wisdom arising from my life experience.’

Doug Rosbury

EvaluationWhat will they think?

In Conclusion

‘Maybe writing, by acting as a site of self-construction, is one of the dominant ways people in the modern world create a sense of who they are, and how they relate to others.’

Jeff Park

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Inward

• Self reflection

Outward

• Research (read, read, read)

Challenges