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This page intentionally left blank TheCambridgeIntroductionto Creative Writing Thispioneeringbookintroducesstudentstothepracticeandartof creativewritingandcreativereading.Itoffersafresh,distinctiveand beautifullywrittensynthesisofthediscipline.DavidMorleydiscusses wherecreativewritingcomesfrom,thevariousformsandcamouflages ithastaken,andwhyweteachandlearntheartsoffiction,poetryand creativenonfiction.Helooksatcreativewritinginperformance;as publicart,asvisualart,ase-literatureandasanactofcommunity.Asa leadingpoet,criticandaward-winningteacherofthesubject,Morley findsnewengagementsforcreativewritinginthecreativeacademyand withinscience.Accessible,entertainingandgroundbreaking,The CambridgeIntroductiontoCreativeWritingisnotonlyausefultextbook forstudentsandteachersofwriting,butalsoaninspiringreadinitsown right.Aspiringauthorsandteachersofwritingwillfindmuchto discoverandenjoy. david morley isAssociateProfessorinEnglishandDirectorofthe WarwickWritingProgrammeattheUniversityofWarwick. Cambridge Introductions to Literature Thisseriesisdesignedtointroducestudentstokeytopicsandauthors. Accessibleandlively,theseintroductionswillalsoappealtoreaderswho wanttobroadentheirunderstandingofthebooksandauthorstheyenjoy. (cid:1) Idealforstudents,teachers,andlecturers (cid:1) Concise,yetpackedwithessentialinformation (cid:1) Keysuggestionsforfurtherreading Titlesinthisseries: EricBulson TheCambridgeIntroductiontoJamesJoyce JohnXirosCooper TheCambridgeIntroductiontoT.S.Eliot KirkCurnutt TheCambridgeIntroductiontoF.ScottFitzgerald JanetteDillon TheCambridgeIntroductiontoEarlyEnglishTheatre JanetteDillon TheCambridgeIntroductiontoShakespeare’sTragedies JaneGoldman TheCambridgeIntroductiontoVirginiaWoolf KevinJ.Hayes TheCambridgeIntroductiontoHermanMelville DavidHoldeman TheCambridgeIntroductiontoW.B.Yeats M.JimmieKillingsworth TheCambridgeIntroductiontoWaltWhitman PericlesLewis TheCambridgeIntroductiontoModernism RonanMcDonald TheCambridgeIntroductiontoSamuelBeckett WendyMartin TheCambridgeIntroductiontoEmilyDickinson PeterMessent TheCambridgeIntroductiontoMarkTwain DavidMorley TheCambridgeIntroductiontoCreativeWriting IraNadel TheCambridgeIntroductiontoEzraPound LelandS.Person TheCambridgeIntroductiontoNathanielHawthorne JohnPeters TheCambridgeIntroductiontoJosephConrad SarahRobbins TheCambridgeIntroductiontoHarrietBeecherStowe MartinScofield TheCambridgeIntroductiontotheAmericanShortStory EmmaSmith TheCambridgeIntroductiontoShakespeare PeterThomson TheCambridgeIntroductiontoEnglishTheatre,1660–1900 JanetTodd TheCambridgeIntroductiontoJaneAusten The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing DAVID MORLEY CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB28RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521838801 © David Morley 2007 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2007 ISBN-13 978-0-511-28519-6 eBook (EBL) ISBN-10 0-511-28519-1 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-83880-1 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-83880-0 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-54754-3 paperback ISBN-10 0-521-54754-7 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Toteachers ‘severalthingsdovetailedinmymindandatonceitstruckme,what qualitywenttoform...AchievementespeciallyinLiterature&which Shakespearepossessedsoenormously–ImeanNegativeCapability,that iswhenmaniscapableofbeinginuncertainties,Mysteries,doubts, withoutanyirritablereachingafterfactandreason.’ JohnKeats ‘Whenitcomestoatoms,languagecanbeusedonlyasinpoetry.The poet,too,isnotnearlysoconcernedwithdescribingfactsaswith creatingimages.’ NielsBohr
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