Creative practice, no matter how we explain, rationalise and quantify it, remains an indefinable, mysterious, even mystical activity. What we call exegetical explication of the creative process is an outsider’s, often after-the-fact attempt to understand what we do, labouring with inadequate utilitarian language in order to account for what is largely an unconscious or rationally inaccessible process, translating it into the clumsy language of academic discourse and propositional knowledge. This presentation explores such creative practices as bowerbirding, serendipity, synchronicity, intuitive archaeology and other ‘spooky arts’ (Mailer) and employs what Dominique Hecq calls ‘active consciousness’ in attempting to explain them.
Conference presentation
Writing the Unexpected: Some Spooky Creative Writing Methods
National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) Conference, 2024 (Online, 08-Nov-2024–09-Nov-2024)
2024
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- Title
- Writing the Unexpected: Some Spooky Creative Writing Methods
- Authors
- Paul Williams (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Conference details
- National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) Conference, 2024 (Online, 08-Nov-2024–09-Nov-2024)
- Date published
- 2024
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Business and Creative Industries; Sustainability Research Cluster; Healthy Ageing Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991071198902621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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