Articulate Walls: Writer’s Block and the Academic Creative Practitioner

Moore, Marshall ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0638-0828 (2017) Articulate Walls: Writer’s Block and the Academic Creative Practitioner. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 15 (3). pp. 348-359. ISSN 1479-0726

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Abstract / Summary

In the study of creative writing as an academic discipline, much attention has been paid to pedagogy, often in reaction/opposition to the question ‘Can creative writing be taught?’ What of the creative practitioners who are working in an interzone between nurturing their students’ writing and maintaining creative output of their own? Institutional ‘publish or perish’ demands have not yet aligned themselves with the shifting realities of the creative marketplace, the changes in the publishing industry, and the mental fatigue of analyzing student work. In this scenario, the creative who is also an academic (or the academic who is also a creative) may find that his or her practice is paralyzingly out of sync with the syllabus; and teaching from a state of creative depletion may engender a cascade of self-doubt. This paper will look at the process by which these practitioners attempt to navigate this zone of creative disconnect.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.1080/14790726.2017.1384025
ISSN:	1479-0726
Subjects:	Communication > Creative Writing
Courses by Department:	The School of Communication
Depositing User:	Marshall Moore
Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2020 11:07
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 14:29
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/4020

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