Creative writing 101: Writing and publishing psychological novels and short stories

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Hatfield ◽  
Richard L. Rapson
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Psychological Novels

scholarly journals Arab Women Writing in English

1970 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Saadi Nikro
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
Personal Reflections

As the title indicates, this issue of Al-Raida is informed by the theme of Arab Women Writing in English, presenting essays, short stories, personal reflections, and poetry. Accordingly, the File includes mostly creative writing by Arab women living and working either in or outside the region.

Winning Hearts and Minds: The 1st Casualty Press

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
Caroline Slocock
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Vietnam Veterans ◽  
Commercial Publisher ◽  
Fire Zone ◽  
The Press ◽  
Political Understanding ◽  
Hearts And Minds

In the early 1970s, a number of Vietnam veterans sought publication for a collection of veterans' creative writing which they felt could make an important contribution to a political understanding of the war in Indochina. However, efforts to find a commercial publisher for their anthology met with no success. Their conviction that this literature both deserved and could find a substantial audience led these writers to establish their own independent publisher for the literature of Vietnam veterans, the 1st [sic] Casualty Press. In 1972, the Press published an anthology of veterans' poetry, Winning Hearts and Minds (or WHAM as it is often called), edited by Larry Rottmann, Jan Barry and Basil T. Paquet; it was followed a year later by Free Fire Zone, an anthology of short stories edited by Rottmann, Paquet and Wayne Karlin. As their epigraph, both volumes were given the quotation: “In war, truth is the first casualty.”

scholarly journals LEARNING CREATIVE WRITING MODEL BASED ON NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-42
Author(s):  
Edhy Rustan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
School Students ◽  
Neurolinguistic Programming ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Group Trial

The objectives of the study are to determine: (1) condition on learning creative writing at high school students in Makassar, (2) requirement of learning model in creative writing, (3) program planning and design model in ideal creative writing, (4) feasibility of model study based on creative writing in neurolinguistic programming, and (5) the effectiveness of the learning model based on creative writing in neurolinguisticprogramming.The method of this research uses research development of Learning Model. The research data are obtained by observation, interviews, questionnaires, expert assessment, and test results. The feasibility of the model is done through expert assessment, testing one-to-one, small group trial, a large group trial, and trial on its effectiveness.The results of data analysis show that (1) the objective condition has various problems in learning to write short stories, (2) analysis of objectives has varous needs, deficiencies, and desire of students and teachers in developing creative writing based on learning model in neurolinguistic programming, (3) learning model covers focus, syntax, social system, the principle of reaction, means of support, and the impact of learning, (4) eligibility models by experts produces valid result, a trial one-to-one has practical result, a small group trial, and large group trial obtain enforceability of the model in good criteria, and (5) model-based learning creative writing in neurolinguistic programming is proved to be effective in improving skill of high school students to write short stories in Makassar.  

scholarly journals In conversation with Catherine Cole

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaydeep Sarangi
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Sea Birds ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Dry Dock

Catherine Cole is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. In March 2017, she will take up the position of Professor in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, UK. Catherine has published three novels, Dry Dock (1999) and Skin Deep (2002) and The Grave at Thu Le (2006), two non-fiction books, Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks: An Interrogation of Crime Fiction (1996) and The Poet Who Forgot (2008). She is the editor of the anthology, The Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam (2010) and co-editor with McNeil and Karaminas of Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television (2009). Her poetry, short stories, essays and reviews have been published in Australia and internationally and produced by BBC Radio 4. In 2017 Catherine’s short story collection, Sea Birds Crying in the Harbour Dark, will be published by UWA Press.

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN KOMPETENSI MENULIS CERITA PENDEK MELALUI TEKNIK TRANSFORMASI TEKS PUISI DAN CO-CREATIVE WRITING

LITERA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85
Author(s):  
Hartono Hartono ◽  
Suroso Suroso ◽  
Dwi Budiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Development Of Language

Menulis kreatif merupakan keterampilan yang dapat berkontribusi bagi pengembangan kemampuan berbahasa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kompetensi mahasiswa dalam menulis cerita pendek melalui teknik transformasi teks puisi dan co-creative writing. Penelitian ini melibatkan 18 orang mahasiswa Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta sebagai subjek penelitian dan seorang dosen pengampu mata kuliah Menulis Sastra sebagai kolaborator peneliti. Jenis penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas dengan menerapkan dua siklus dengan lima kali pertemuan selama pengambilan data penelitian. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui teknik observasi, wawancara, dan penyebaran kuisioner untuk kemudian dilakukan kondensasi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan dari data kualitatif yang diperoleh. Kemampuan mahasiswa dalam menulis cerita pendek diperoleh melalui tes menulis cerita pendek yang kemudian dianalisis secara deskriptif kuantitatif. Berdasarkan analisis, diperoleh kesimpulan sebagai berikut. Pertama, penerapan teknik transformasi teks puisi dan co-creative writing dapat meningkatkan efikasi diri mahasiswa, mengembangkan kesadaran kolaborasi dalam menulis cerita pendek, dan membangun suasana perkuliahan menulis sastra yang aktif dan dinamis. Kedua, peningkatan skor rerata setiap aspek kompetensi menulis cerita pendek dari siklus ke siklus memperlihatkan bahwa penerapan teknik transformasi teks puisi dan co-creative writing dapat meningkatkan kompetensi menulis cerita pendek di kalangan mahasiswa. Teknik ini terutama sangat membantu dalam mengembangkan kemampuan untuk menggali ide dan imajinasi penulisan cerita pendek. Mahasiswa menjadi terlatih untuk melakukan ekspansi cerita, modifikasi dan variasi, atau konversi cerita.Kata kunci: menulis kreatif, transformasi teks puisi, efikasi diri, menulis kolaboratifINCREASING COMPETENCE OF SHORT STORIES WRITING THROUGH POETRY TEXT TRANSFORMATION AND CO-CREATIVE WRITING TECHNIQUESAbstract Creative writing is a skill that is expected to contribute to the development of language skills. This study aimed to improve students' competence in writing short stories through poetry texts transformation and co-creative writing techniques. The study involved 18 students of the Department of Language and Literature Education, Faculty of Language and Arts, Yogyakarta State University as research subjects and a lecturer who teaches Literature as a research collaborator. The study was a classroom action research by applying two cycles with five meetings during the research data collection. Data collection was carried out through observation, interviews, and filling out questionnaires followed by data condensation, data display, and drawing conclusions from the qualitative data obtained. Students' ability in writing short stories was obtained through a short story writing test which was then analyzed using descriptive quantitative analysis. The following research results were obtained. First, the application of poetry texts transformation and co-creative writing techniques increased student self-efficacy, developed collaborative awareness in writing short stories, and built an active and dynamic literary writing lecture atmosphere. Second, the increase in the mean score of each aspect of competency in writing short stories from cycle to cycle showed that the application of the poetry texts transformation and co-creative writing techniques improved the competence of writing short stories among students. This technique was especially helpful in developing the ability to explore ideas and imagination in writing short stories. Students became trained to do story expansion, modification, and variation, or story conversion.Keywords: creative writing, poetry texts transformation, self-efficacy, collaborative writing

scholarly journals Peningkatan Keterampilan Menulis Cerita Pendek Melalui Strategi Area Isi (Studi Kasus Terhadap Mahasiswa Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia FBSS UNP)

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasnur Asri
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Story Content

This research aims at identifying the effectiveness of the use of ‘content area strategy’ in teaching creative writing. Based on the action performed in the class it was found that the content area strategy was able to enhance students’ ability in writing short stories. The effectiveness was recognized from the average scores achieved in writing short stories both in describing the content of the story and the element of the story, and in language use.. Key words: short story, content area strategy

Seated between ‘Geniuses’: Conrad Aiken’s Imaginative and Critical Responses to Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-54
Author(s):  
Sydney Janet Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
The United States ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
American Poet ◽  
John Middleton Murry

The writing of the American poet, fiction writer and critic, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) significantly affected the critical receptions of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. His personal encounters with them during his time of involvement in the production of the Athenaeum is reflected not only in his incisive reviews of their fiction, but in his own creative writing as well. His short stories and experimental memoir, Ushant, (1963) reveal the two women's differing forms of influence upon him. In his memoir, he portrays the relations between Woolf and Mansfield as representative of the ‘merciless warfare’ that prevailed in the London literary world in 1920. If his creative legacy from Woolf was stylistic and psychological, from Mansfield it was inspirational. He was in love with the spontaneity and life-enhancing vitality of her prose, her ‘genius’ for making her characters ‘real.’ The sense of an intuitive connection between himself and Mansfield underpins his imaginative efforts to recreate his encounters with her, as is exemplified most powerfully in his short story: ‘Your Obituary, Well Written,’ (1928) in which he creates a thinly veiled portrait of characters uncannily similar to Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry.

‘For I have fed on foreign bread’: Modernism, Colonial Education and Fijian Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-398
Author(s):  
Maebh Long ◽  
Matthew Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Education System ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
Colonial Education ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Future Needs ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
New Literature

This article examines the ways in which the Fijian authors Vanessa Griffen, Pio Manoa, and Subramani revised and reworked modernist texts in their construction of a local postcolonial literature. These writers were schooled in a colonial education system that was, by the 1950s and 60s, in ideological disarray, as the jingoistic, imperial texts of the English syllabus began to give way to the crisis and self-interrogation of literary modernism. The students who graduated from these classes went on to create a first wave of Fijian creative writing in English. As this article shows, Griffen, Manoa, and Subramani carried into their writing fragments and forms of the texts they had been required to learn by rote, and they refashioned these into new wholes. In their short stories and poems of the late 1960s and early 70s, these writers turned the literature of past imperial breakdown towards present and future needs, adapting fragmentary, perspectival and multivocal texts towards a postcolonial independence still riven by colonially introduced problems. Ultimately, we argue, the creation of this new literature denotes the failure of the education system to impress British superiority upon its colonial subjects, and the success of the subaltern in reclaiming the means of expression.

Creative Writing as Part and Parcel of Developing Communicative & Intellectual FL Learners’ Powers

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-141
Author(s):  
Victoria V. Safonova
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
School Life ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Advanced Students ◽  
Writing Genres

Abstract For many years in ELT methodology the questions of teaching writing in ELT coursebooks have been given much attention in terms of its nature, differences between written and spoken speech, ELT objectives and approaches to teaching writing, types of writing genres, writing assessment. But one rather neglected area in that regard is a graded teaching of creative writing to FL learners. The fifteen-year experience with organizing language-and-culture competitions launched by the Research Centre “Euroschool” for foreign language /FL/ students across Russia have proved that even intermediate FL learners, not to speak about advanced students are quite capable of writing in a FL: a) poems and songs expressing their ideas about teenagers’ lifestyle & visions of contemporary world; b) short stories describing family and school life experiences of their own or their peers; c) essays based on their comparative study of native and foreign cultures; d) presentations of Russian culture & other cultures of the Russian Federation in an English environment while being on exchange visits; e) translations of English poetry, short stories, excerpts from humours books, stripes of comics. The paper compares teaching creative writing in Russian and English, discusses the questions arisen from the outcomes of the language-and-culture competitions, arguing that effective teaching of creative writing presupposes: 1) teaching a FL in the context of the dialogue of cultures and civilizations, 2) introducing creative writing into a FL curriculum, 3) designing a package of thought-provoking teaching materials aiming at developing communicative, intellectual & mediating learners’ powers, 4) applying appropriate assessment scales for observing the dynamics of learners’ development as creative writers, 5) marrying students’ bilingual and crosscultural/ pluricultural classroom activities stimulating their participation in language-and-culture competitions.

scholarly journals Kegiatan Menulis Kreatif Sastra Pada Siswa Kelas VII SMP Di Jakarta Timur Sebagai Wujud Gerakan Literasi Sekolah

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 370
Author(s):  
Endang Sulistijani ◽  
Arinah Fransori ◽  
Friza Youlinda
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Seventh Grade ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Real Growth ◽  
Writing Activity

The purpose of writing this paper is to describe creative writing activities for seventh grade students in East Jakarta. This activity was carried out by a team of lecturers, students and alumni of the Indonesian Language Study Program at Indraprasta PGRI University as a form of the Tri Dharma of Higher Education in Community Service. The implementation of this activity lasted for two days at two different schools. The method used in this creative writing activity is the lecture and brainstorming methods. In addition, the Community Service team also used a demonstration method in describing the stages or process of creative writing of literature according to its experience in literary copyright. With literary creative writing activities both writing poetry or short stories, from these   our team  expected that the more real growth and development of school literacy will occur so that more students produce literary works. Therefore, the outcome of this activity is the publication of Short Story Poetry and Antalogy book by students

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