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The writing experiment : strategies for innovative creative writing /

By: Smith, Hazel, 1950- [author.].
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2020Description: xvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781741140156.Subject(s): Creative writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Authorship -- Handbooks, manuals, etcDDC classification: 808.02
Contents:
Part I. Introductory strategies: Playing with language, running with referents ; Genre as a moveable feast ; Working out with structures ; Writing as recycling ; Narrative, narratology, power ; Dialoguing -- Part II. Advanced strategies: Postmodern f(r)ictions ; Postmodern poetry, avant-garde poetics ; The invert, the cross-dresser, the fictocritic ; Tongues, talk and technologies ; New media travels ; Mapping worlds, moving cities.
Summary: This demystifying guide to creative writing shows that successful work arises not from talent or inspiration alone but from several stages of development within a systematic strategy. Recommending an exploratory approach to writing, this book offers practical exercises that bring exceptional creative writing within reach. Each chapter is illustrated with extensive examples of student work and published writing including fiction, poetry, plays, performance, and new media.
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Originally published 2005 by Allen & Unwin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introductory strategies: Playing with language, running with referents ; Genre as a moveable feast ; Working out with structures ; Writing as recycling ; Narrative, narratology, power ; Dialoguing -- Part II. Advanced strategies: Postmodern f(r)ictions ; Postmodern poetry, avant-garde poetics ; The invert, the cross-dresser, the fictocritic ; Tongues, talk and technologies ; New media travels ; Mapping worlds, moving cities.

This demystifying guide to creative writing shows that successful work arises not from talent or inspiration alone but from several stages of development within a systematic strategy. Recommending an exploratory approach to writing, this book offers practical exercises that bring exceptional creative writing within reach. Each chapter is illustrated with extensive examples of student work and published writing including fiction, poetry, plays, performance, and new media.

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