(Third of a series; the first is here and the second here.) Discussing how to teach creative writing demands an answer to another question: What about workshops? The writing workshop must be the most rigid activity ever associated with a creative process, if it should be associated at all. It’s so pervasive in the writing [...]
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Can it be taught? (part three)
Oct 02, 2010
6:05 pm
Filed under:can it be taught?, creative writing industry, creative writing lore, decisions in art, liz lerman, pedagogy, playwrighting, transfer magazine, workshopping
Can it be taught? (part two)
Jul 29, 2010
11:08 pm
Filed under:c++, can it be taught?, creative writing industry, creative writing lore, decisions in art, pedagogy, raymond chandler
(Second post of a series; check out the first post.) Perhaps the first lesson a creative writing student should learn is that there is a craft of writing. I know I had to learn that. It’s not so obvious to the starting writer who feels poetry is poetry because it looks like poetry, or one [...]
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Jul 19, 2010
11:20 pm
Filed under:can it be taught?, creative writing industry, creative writing lore, decisions in art, pedagogy, ron macfarland
I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard this question: Can writing be taught? I’ve heard it asked in earnest and I’ve heard it asked flippantly, but I take it seriously each time. I also cannot tell you how often I wanted to twist the question back on the questioner: Why can’t writing be taught? Why [...]
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Apr 26, 2010
9:09 pm
Filed under:bullshitting, creative writing industry, creative writing lore, elmore leonard, hemingway
I’d wager just about every profession and field of study has its share of lore, that is, its own body of unsubstantiated knowledge distributed by word-of-mouth and so forth. Most “common knowledge” is lore. Everybody knows that Macs can’t get viruses — but they can get malware, and they do. Everybody knows that the French [...]
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