Emotions and the Creative Process; Anxiety, Boredom, and Enjoyment as Predictors of Creative Writing

1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reed W. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Process

scholarly journals Op die spoor van kreatiewe kreature: ’n interdissiplinêre ondersoek na die kreatiewe proses – projekbeskrywing

Literator ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
S.F. Greyling ◽  
I.R. Marley
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Support Structures ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
The Core ◽  
Project Description ◽  
Arts Festival

Tracking creative creatures: an interdisciplinary investigation into the creative process – project description “Tracking creative creatures” is an interdisciplinary exploration which originated out of a need for research possibilities within the creative disciplines, specifically visual arts and creative writing. The graphic works which formed the core of the project, and which served as creative stimuli for the various artists, originated in the imagination of a five year-old boy and were subsequently illustrated by his artist father. The project entails various components, including a flagship project with invited artists, a teaching subproject and a community sub-project, which were showcased at the Aardklop National Arts Festival, 2007. This article provides an overview of the project as a whole and the organic nature in which it evolved. The discussion includes the following aspects: context, conceptualisation, approach, methods, documentation, support structures, description of the various sub-projects, and preliminary results and appraisal. The complex nature of the projects is further communicated by means of illustrations.

scholarly journals Skryfkunsstudente se ervaring van hulle eie kreatiewe proses binne die konteks van die Op die spoor van kreatiewe kreature-projek: ’n narratiewe ontleding

Literator ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
S.F. Greyling
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Individual

Creative writing students’ experience of their own creative process within the context of the Tracking creative creatures project: a narrative analysis First-year students in Creative Writing at the North-West University took part in an interdisciplinary investigation into the creative process, which posed certain creative challenges to them. The students’ reaction to the project indicated that they experienced the assignment as challenging and enriching. This article investigates the question whether the narrative analysis of students’ personal reports on the creative process can contribute to a better understanding of the individual experience, the project, and the creative process as such. A framework for analysis was developed against the theoretical background of contextual approaches to creativity, practice-based research and the method of narrative analysis. Amabile’s componential framework of creativity served as a basis for the framework to investigate the three levels of the narrative (form, content and context). The article discusses the project, collection of data, theoretical framework and research procedures, and illustrates and discusses the application and value of narrative analysis of students’ reports with reference to identified themes and selected examples.

Andrei Bitov's “Zhizn' v Vetrenuiu pogodu”: The Creative Process in Life and Literature

Slavic Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 400-409
Author(s):  
Ellen Chances
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Henry David Thoreau ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Windy Weather

Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden," wrote about people leading "lives of quiet desperation." Russian literature is filled with examples of people who cannot break out of the paralysis of selfimprisonment and who are deadened to life by their addiction to habit. In "Zhizn' v vetrenuiu pogodu" ["Life in Windy Weather"] Andrei Bitov explores the process, in life and literature, of escape from those ossified forms of existence and art. He plots the path toward creative living and creative writing. For him, one cannot divide the creative process in life from the creative process in literature.

scholarly journals Richard Murphy: a life in writing

Literator ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Meihuizen
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
The Relationship

The Irish poet Richard Murphy published his autobiography “The kick: a life among writers” in 2003. From a slightly different perspective the subtitle of this work could be rewritten as “A life in writing” since it is an account of the agencies that moulded a life devoted to creative writing which forms the book’s essential impetus. The memoir is based on notebooks which Murphy kept throughout his life “to hold the scraps of verse, elusive images, dreams, desires and revelations” to be developed into poetry. Apart from contextualising his poetry by registering the relationships, circumstances and landscapes from which it germinated, Murphy also tells of the creative process itself and the personal poetics underlying this process. This article explores what is regarded as the central determining feature of Murphy’s identity as poet, namely the relationship between the creative self and a particular place, where the concept of “place” is seen as a cultural palimpsest which represents not only physical qualities, but also the shaping and development of the landscape through time according to a certain way of life.

scholarly journals Critical-Creative Literacy and Creative Writing Pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol Forthcoming ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Writing Pedagogy ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Creative Writing Pedagogy ◽  
Creative Literacy

This article builds on psychological research that claims critical thinking is a key component of the creative process to argue that critical-creative literacy is a cognitive goal of creative writing education. The article also explores the types of assignments and prompts that might contribute to this goal and simultaneously build bridges between creative writing education and other Humanities disciplines.

scholarly journals Drawing Maps for Research in Creative Writing through A/r/tography

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Song Cycle ◽  
Linear Process ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Non Linear

The essay aims to review clashes in research methodologies for creative practices–especially Creative Writing–and to propose a possible solution to bridge it. A/r/tography–a research methodology developed based on the premise of art and art creation as a rhizomatic process/activity–is elaborated here as a middle ground between opposing schemes. The author’s project of writing a collection of bilingual poems based on classical Javanese song cycle–Sekar Macapat–is presented to illustrate how a/r/tography can be used to address various multiplicities and non-linear process in creative process.

Apollo versus Bacchus: The Dynamics of Inspiration (Rabelais's Prologues to Gargantua and to the Tiers livre)

PMLA ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Fiola Berry
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Literary Creation ◽  
Second Mode ◽  
Birth Of Tragedy

AbstractRabelais's two prologues are examined as défenses et illustrations of his theory of creativity, a theory largely influenced by the Platonic furor divinus, for in both chapters Rabelais describes the source of his genius as a state of madness. However, two kinds of madness confront each other in dynamic opposition. There is first the Bacchic mode which describes literary creation as joyful drunkenness and whose purpose is to provide pleasure and recreation. But another idea of creative writing intervenes to contradict the Bacchic injunctions, one that infers gravity of intent and of meaning. It is argued that this second mode be rightfully designated as “Apollonian,” and that, in reducing Plato's tetrad of furors to Bacchus and his frère ennemi, Rabelais intuited that truth which Nietzsche would explore three centuries later in The Birth of Tragedy—that these two gods have stood eternally opposed as the archetypal poles of the tension vital to the creative process.

scholarly journals Zen-Boeddhistiese selfloosheid as sentrale interteks van die Breytenbach-oeuvre

Literator ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sienaert
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Principle Of Relativity ◽  
Western Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Creative Experience ◽  
The Way

The aim of this article is twofold:• To postulate the Buddhist notion of selflessness as central to the art and writing of Breyten Breytenbach.• To provide an overview of the philosophy this implies and of the way in which it offers a reading of the Breytenbach-oeuvre.The Buddhist concept of selflessness as expressed in the work of Breytenbach is by way of contrast firstly set against the background of the more familiar Western philosophical tradition, and then analysed within the context of Buddhist experiences such as Sunyata, Satori, Zazen and the Taoist principle of relativity to which it is inexorably linked. In doing so an attempt is made to fulfil a need that became apparent from discussions with colleagues and (post)graduate students: Although Zen -Buddhism in general has long been accepted as a primary intertext of the Breytenbach oeuvre, and although it is common practice to refer to notions such as Satori, Zazen and the Void when studying his work, it is not always clear in which way the Buddhist philosophy is pertinent to the creative process as such, be it that of creative writing or painting. To construe the presence of Buddhist terminology in the Breytenbach text as a mere tool for the unfolding of plot or as an attempt to define his writing as moralistic or mystical is an unfortunate misconception. In addition to the focus on Buddhist selflessness and the way in which it is reflected in Breytenbach’s work, this article therefore offers some suggestions on the way in which an understanding of Buddhist principles can serve as elucidation of the nature of the Breytenbach oeuvre and the creative experience as such.

Technical and Creative Writing: Common Process, Common Goals

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Zachary Rothmel
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Technical Writing ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Professional Advancement ◽  
Reflex Action ◽  
Common Process ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Fiction Writer

Creative and technical writing share definite, but seldom realized, affinities. Like the fiction writer, the engineer and the scientist must realize that writing is a creative process rather than a reflex action if they are to communicate successfully. Often, professional advancement depends on the ability to present and to interpret factual information coherently and effectively. Although technical writing presents factual information and creative writing fictional information, both crafts adhere to the same underlying rhetorical principles in order to create their desired effects. This article examines those shared principles that make technical writing more than a prosaic exercise and allow writers to express themselves meaningfully. The role of imagination in this craft is also explored.

scholarly journals THE ANALYSIS OF PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY BEGINNER WRITER IN WRITING A SHORT STORY: A Case Study in Creative Writing Class

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 402
Author(s):  
N. Y. Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Writing Course

Creative process is the journey that a writer takes in order to create a piece of creative writing. During this process a writer, especially a beginner writer, encountered numerous obstacles which influence the writing performance. This study was aimed to analyze the problems faced by the students of Creative Writing course in Ganesha University of Education and describe how the students deal with the problems. The problems analyzed consist of three major aspects of writing fiction, namely literature elements, technical problems, and students’ self-perception. The study found out that the majority of the students experienced similar problems from certain elements, meanwhile there were also problems found that appeared to be different from one another. This leads to further findings that the students conducted various attempts to deal with the problems..  

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