The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

THE WRITING EXPERIMENT Strategies for innovative creative writing Hazel Smith The Writing Experiment-PAGES 6/1/05 12:57 PM Page ...

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Contents Preface iv Visit The Writing Experiment website at: http://www.allenandunwin.com/writingexp Part I: Introductory strat ...

Preface The Writing Experiment is the culmination of my experience of teaching creative writing in the School of English at the ...

musician, my collaborations with artists and musicians, and my love of film, the visual arts and music mean that I have constant ...

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Introduction Creative writing courses are an integral and indispensable part of univer- sity education, because they interconnec ...

Although readers are advised to engage with the strategies provided, once they have finished the book they should also be able t ...

Some of these questions often initially include: Do I have to have special qualities to be a writer? Are there any rules or reg ...

usually work against and beyond familiar literary codes and conventions. To write experimentally is to adopt a subversive and tr ...

based on personal experience, and frequently is not. To write is always to construct something, to create a fiction. There is a ...

Techniques of this kind are an important feature of this book. They can be a means of arriving at unusual ideas which might not ...

The aim of the book is not to expound the work of particular theorists, or to elucidate theoretical concepts in depth. Rather it ...

second half. The book will probably be most effective if read and used in order as each chapter builds on strategies and approac ...

Chapter 11 New media travels is dedicated to writing and new tech- nologies. Readers become ‘cyberwriters’ who are initiated int ...

Rosenberg, H. 1965, The Tradition of the New , McGraw-Hill, New York. Singleton, J. and Luckhurst, M. (eds.) 1996, The Creative ...

PART I Introductory strategies ...

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chapter one Playing with language, running with referents In the Introduction I emphasised that you do not have to have an idea ...

most writing includes a combination. Here we explore them separately to show how each can be a powerful tool in your writing. ex ...