Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing

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Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing is written by Carl Vandermeulen and published by Multilingual Matters. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1847694403 (ISBN 10) and 9781847694409 (ISBN 13).

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.