Creative Writing

Satire; Groteske [Handbuchartikel]

by Lino Wirag

Unveröffentliche Lemmata zu einem "Handbuch des literarischen Schreibens"; Fokus auf Praxisanwendung

Creating Possibilities: Embedding Research Into Creative Writing

by Jason Wirtz

The Wheel Triumphest (A title suggested by my dear teacher and friend Dr. Mohammed Almansouri)

by Nizar Zouidi

Greatest Evolvability: A Place of Chaos, White Rabbits, Fear, Receptivity and Invention

by Jason Wirtz

published in New Writing

Tracing the Images on the Ceiling: Reading as Invention

by Jason Wirtz

published in Writing on the Edge

Who Speaks? Torture and the Ethics of Voice

by Michael Richardson

published in TEXT Vol. 16 No. 1, 2012

This paper performs, in three movements, an exploration of the ethics not of torture itself but of writing it... more This paper performs, in three movements, an exploration of the ethics not of torture itself but of writing it creatively. First movement: of the right to write. This first movement considers ethical questions of authorship in the fictional narration of the trauma of torture. It employs Giorgio Agamben’s work on biopower and testimony to position the act of writing creatively about torture in relation to torture’s political project and the subjection of the body to sovereign power, along with a reading of torture as affective encounter, to suggest the necessity of writing literary testimony to it. Second movement: of writing the torturer’s voice. The second movement draws on Deleuzian affect theory to articulate a relational conception of this trauma that suggests, however distasteful, the need for the torturer’s voice to be heard beyond the torture chamber. Third movement: of being affected by unjust ethics. This third movement draws on concepts of affective contagion to gestures back towards the experience of being affected by writing unjust ethics. With their twists and turns, their connections and discontinuities, these movements navigate – necessarily incompletely – the messy complexities of the ethical space of voice in the writing torture.

Writing Torture’s Remnants: Sovereign Power, Affect and the War on Terror

by Michael Richardson

Published in 'Torture Imprints: Performance, Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice', 2011, edited by Catherine Barrette, Bridget Haylock and Danielle Mortimer.

This eBook is available for free download.

American use of torture in the war on terror, what is routinely sanitised as ‘enhanced interrogation techniques,’ has... more American use of torture in the war on terror, what is routinely sanitised as ‘enhanced interrogation techniques,’ has not received significant literary attention. Writing about torture and its traumatic affects is made difficult by torture’s assault on subjectivity, language and narrative. In its obsession with not piercing the flesh, American torture renders bodies in their entirety – social and political, flesh and blood – utterly subject to sovereign power and makes precarious the very possibility of a speaking subject. Narratives are ruptured and produced; after, the event remains without closure, unable to become memory. This chapter takes an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the torture that occurred at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and elsewhere, grounding its analysis in examples from literature, documentary cinema, memoir and confidential correspondence with an anonymous American military intelligence officer, and exploring the problem of writing the traumatic remnants of that torture. Agamben’s work on sovereignty and biopower is used to show how bodies become wholly penetrated by American power, while affect theory, following both Tomkins and Deleuze, provides the conceptual apparatus for an expanded understanding of bodies, and for exploring relations between tortured and torturing bodies. The author’s own fictional work- in-progress on detention and torture during the war on terror frames both the challenges and possibilities in the practice of writing the consequences of torture. The work of Felman and Laub on testimony, and that of Agamben on what he calls ‘neither the dead nor the survivors’ but ‘what remains between,’ provide the basis for an ethic of writing built on the traces of trauma, the remnants of torture that are ever-present in bodies, yet to become memory.

The Rookie

by DARLA JORDAN MILLER

TEXAS HISTORY, J. Owens; Creative writing/essay: Student paper reviewing the movie "The Rookie", starring Texas native Dennis Quaid. The film is based on the true story of Jim Morris, major league baseball pitcher. Significant to the movie are: Texas history of the Santa Rita #1 and the discovery of oil in Reagan County, West Texas as well as it's relationship to The University of Texas. Directed by John Lee Hancock, DVD. 2002.
Texas History 2301

Turkey Seminar

by DARLA JORDAN MILLER

GOVT. Dr. K; A student critique of a seminar on Turkey. Speaker: Dr Manouchehr R Khosrowshahi. Oct. 10, 2010. Federal Government 2305

Middle East Seminar

by DARLA JORDAN MILLER

GOVT. Dr. K; A student paper from attending a seminar about the Middle East at Tyler Junior College. Speaker: Dr Manouchehr R Khosrowshahi,Nov. 9, 2010. Federal Government 2305

Reader’s Response –“The Things They Carried”

by DARLA JORDAN MILLER

ENGL. Dr. B. Moore; A reader's response pertaining to the short story "The Things They Carried" by author Tim O'Brien. The story remembers the Vietnam War and the symbolism of the word "burden".

To the Mercy Killers

by DARLA JORDAN MILLER

ENGL. B. Moore; Using the prompt "To the Mercy Killers", Here is an exercise in creative writing. I enjoyed the creative writing aspect of my English classes.

Building on the Bones

by Heidi Altman

Creating the A+ assignment: A project management approach

by Peter Mellalieu

Mellalieu, P. J. (2001, October 11). Creating the A+ assignment: A project management approach (Revised).

This document helps you plan out the time you need to produce an A+ assignment for an undergraduate university... more This document helps you plan out the time you need to produce an A+ assignment for an undergraduate university assignment, using a project management framework. Some adaptations and extensions need to be made for more advanced work, such as a research report, or a postgraduate assignment.

See also:
Mellalieu, P. J. (2007, October 18). Model answer: A “Five Paragraph” essay in management. Retrieved July 27, 2009, from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Blog/Entries/2007/10/18_Model_answer__A_%E2%80%9CFive_Paragraph%E2%80%9D_essay_in_management.html

Mellalieu, P. J. (2010a, November 8). Preparing an essay for a written test or examination (Part B): The Pogorific A+ exam-sitting method. Innovation & chaos ... in search of optimality. Retrieved November 8, 2010, from http://pogus.tumblr.com/post/1512453524/scheduling-time-in-a-test

Mellalieu, P. J. (2010b, November 8). Preparing an essay for a written test or examination (Part A). Innovation & chaos ... in search of optimality. Retrieved November 8, 2010, from http://pogus.tumblr.com/post/1512039456/short-essay-advice


For teachers in particular, see also:
Mellalieu, P. J. (2008). Writing to learn argument and persuasion: A “Trojan Horse” for promoting the adoption of “Writing Across the Curriculum” (WAC) principles (Working paper). Auckland, NZ: Unitec New Zealand Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Retrieved from http://web.me.com/petermellalieu/Teacher/Blog/Entries/2009/9/30_Slide_show__Writing_to_learn_argument_and_persuasion.html

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On the Poetry & Beatitude Quest of Ken Gram

by Rob Wilson

Écrire sur les trottoirs

by Pierre-Luc Landry

Poème publié dans la revue Le Crachoir de Flaubert

Ethics, writing, and splinters in the heart

by Jen Webb

published in Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds Papers - the refereed proceedings of the 16th conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs

Six years ago, my son was attacked by a stranger and suffered head injuries. Over the time I spent in hospital waiting... more Six years ago, my son was attacked by a stranger and suffered head injuries. Over the time I spent in hospital waiting for him to wake I found myself remembering Graham Greene’s maxim, ‘there is a splinter of ice in the heart of a writer’.
Is it possible to be a writer, and not appropriate the sufferings of others? Despite my ethical concerns, I am pleased I was able to produce an account of those days. My son too was pleased because, he said, my story gave him material to rebuild his memory. Well, he would say that: Gerda, in Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen, similarly forgave Kay for the unkindness he showed her after the splinter entered his heart.
Andersen’s story is about the struggle between good and evil: it is a moral tale. Mine, by contrast, is an ethical tale, one I explore by way of Wittengenstein. In this paper I present the short piece I had to write about my son’s head injury; and discuss the ethical problems I experienced in this writing

From Meaning to Experience: Teaching Fiction Writing With Digital RPGs

by Trent Hergenrader

Published in Dungeons, Dragons, & Digital Denizens: The Digital Role Playing Game

Gaming, World Building, and Narrative: Using Role-Playing Games to Teach Fiction Writing

by Trent Hergenrader

Creative Writing and the Web: Resources for the Literary Arts

by Hugh Burkhart