{"title":"‘Limited connectivity’: the struggle for identity within the Technological Singularity, a scripted response","authors":"Richard Finn","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1993930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1993930","url":null,"abstract":"CHARACTERS: TROND EVE A Laptop (As the audience enter they see a face projected on a large screen ‘looking’ impassively at them. This is TROND. Occasionally he seems to see people and give slight nods and smiles of acknowledgement. His voice, when he speaks, is broadcast over the auditorium speakers. The stage is bare apart from the screen and a couple of chairs.) (The audience settles, the houselights dim. After a moment:)","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"408 - 419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44058225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self portrait / in cross-sections / with bird: a monologue","authors":"Diane Stubbings","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1998132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1998132","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Self Portrait / In Cross-Sections / With Bird is a performance text that evolved from my experimentation with biologically driven dramaturgies. In this experiment, cancer biology was utilised as a dramaturgical model. Applied to Hamlet, the writing employed iterative techniques (for example the Microsoft Word dictation function) that favoured the accumulation of error while suppressing authorial imposition of form, structure and meaning on the emergent text. The aim of the experiment was to generate a text that, like cancer, was inclining away from order and towards ‘the inner edge of chaos’ (Sigston, Elizabeth A.W. & Bryan R.G. Williams. 2017. ‘An Emergence Framework of Carcinogenesis’. Frontiers in Oncology: Cancer Genetics 7: 198, https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2017.00198).","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"478 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41915656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Her, disenchanted","authors":"A. Adji","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1998133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1998133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"420 - 429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44031217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing poetically through the moving body: finding rhythm, presence and resonance","authors":"Joanne Yoo","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1998131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1998131","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Abstract Creative writing bears many similarities to the moving body. Well-crafted writing is derived from the senses and follows the body’s natural rhythms. It is animated by the intent or voice of the author and resonates with others on an equally deep and authentic level. Embodied words flow at the right pitch to engage readers in mutually resonating play. Writing creatively involves accessing the body’s natural intelligence to craft words that breathe with life.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"468 - 477"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47690443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual grafix: a new kind of fiction","authors":"Philip Emery","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1979589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1979589","url":null,"abstract":"The title ‘ Virtual Gra fi x ’ was fi rst attached to an audio adaptation of the fi rst section of an as-yet-unpublished graphic novel called Razor ’ s Edge . The adaptation, albeit produced by an independent radio company and o ff ered to the B.B.C. by that company, has itself never been broadcast. Is the parallel itself ambiguous? The idea of caption, dialogue and art equalling narration, dialogue and plot may be too formulaic to be the whole story(!) The visuals of a comic or graphic novel would achieve a satisfaction of e ff ect a fi ctograph lacks without lessening abstruseness. ‘ Presence ’ is a more appropriately open-ended term for that satisfaction. Audio plays have both speci fi cs in the form of words, and suggestives in the form of sounds: the overall context of the medium makes the words speci fi c. So might it be that the overall context of fi ctographics, words sans actual images, gives the words an enhanced speci fi city? Almost a visual speci fi city or ‘ presence ’ ? Giving them the integrality mentioned earlier?","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"301 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46203014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a pedagogy of intentionality","authors":"Jon Udelson","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1993931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1993931","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To challenge various faulty assumptions about prevailing creative writing pedagogies, we may start by theorising alternate ways to treat students’ intentions with and for their creative work. A pedagogy focused on intentionality could stress the importance of inviting into the classroom students’ lifeworlds over the importance of production and thus typified conceptions of ‘professionalism’, both of which are largely based on problematic ideologies of craft. Such a pedagogy may facilitate processes of self-expression and self-discovery that challenge the often-unnoticed shortcomings of current creative writing curricula.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"185 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45701214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The New Owner and a missing author: negotiating authorship in literary creations of online subcultural communities","authors":"Jaime García-Iglesias","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1993265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1993265","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the story The New Owner in an attempt to explore how the notion of authorship is negotiated in an online forum-based writing project. It also considers how the characteristics of the internet and the forum influenced the creative processes and the negotiations of authorship. In particular, the paper identifies three dynamics of authorship: shared authorial voice, control over the story, and the impossibility of a ‘beyond-the-screen’ truth. I compare these with dynamics related to George R. R. Martin and Elena Ferrante. These dynamics intersect with online literature, subcultural practices of anonymity, and the mediation of the internet. To discuss these, this paper considers a bugchasing erotic story published in an online forum. The paper concludes by exploring how impossibility is a key component of these online spaces and frame their interactions and cultural productions.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"376 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43880108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An imaginary voyage: pandemic approaches to virtual exploration, embodiment, and creative practice","authors":"Tess Scholfield-Peters","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1980055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1980055","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the lockdown era researchers and writers must engage in new ways of working, especially in the realm of field work. On the ground field work is a key characteristic of much diasporic third generation Holocaust literature: place becomes a substitute for experience and a key aspect of connection to history. But when a pandemic hits, what is to be done when international travel becomes impossible? This paper explores the medium of virtual field work: in lieu of an ‘on the ground’ expedition, the writer/researcher engages in virtual exploration situated between documentary material and imagined worlds. Through this analysis I argue that virtual field work can offer a unique, multi-faceted field work experience, and given the similar necessity for imagination as a tool for connection, lends itself to the third-generation Holocaust writer’s investigation.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"338 - 346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42059945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evoking character perspective in screenplay directions: a multilingual approach to writing the ‘big print’","authors":"Carina Böhm, C. Batty","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1979591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1979591","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Screenplay directions, also known as the ‘big print’, form an integral part of the story on the page. While dialogue breathes the words of spoken language, screen directions evoke the literary qualities of the screenplay. In developing an approach to understanding the screenplay text as multilingual invitation to its collaborators, we show how the languages of filmmaking, literature and poetry can be used in the writing of screen directions for evoking character perspective. As an entry point to a character’s inner life, character perspective in screen directions have the qualities to not only depict what is intended to be seen, but also evoke inner thought processes. Revoking traditional opinions that a screenplay should only include what can be seen, we show that these ‘invisible’ screen directions form an integral part of the screenwriter’s craft. As counterpart to the physical, they drive the character’s inner journey. We discuss how language choice can attain different levels of physical and emotional perspective – a multilingual approach that initiates a translation process from page to screen.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"351 - 372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44793360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Haunted by creative writers","authors":"G. Harper","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1999581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1999581","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"18 1","pages":"373 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41374841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}