Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing

Download or read book Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing written by Carl Vandermeulen and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes an alternative way to teach Creative Writing, one that replaces the silent writer taking criticism and advice from the teacher-led workshop with an active writer who reflects upon and publically questions the work-in-progress in order to solicit response, from a writers' group as well as from the teacher. Both accompany the writer, first as readers and fellow writers, only later as critics. Because writers ask, they listen, and dialogues with responders become an inner dialogue that guides later writing and revision. But when teachers accompany writers, teaching CW becomes even more a negotiation of the personal because this teacher who is listener and mentor is also a model for some students of the writer and even the person they would like to become - and still the Authority who gives the grades.