[net-gold] WRITING AND WRITERS: CREATIVE WRITING: Hanif Kureishi: What They Don't Teach You at Creative Writing School
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- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:55:52 -0500 (EST)
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WRITING AND WRITERS: CREATIVE WRITING:
Hanif Kureishi: What They Don't Teach You at Creative Writing School
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Hanif Kureishi: What They Don't Teach You at Creative Writing School
Forget plot, perspective and dialogue aspiring novelists should break the
rules and get into trouble, argues Hanif Kureishi
By Hanif Kureishi
9:00AM GMT 25 Jan 2014
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10594606/
Hanif-Kureishi-What-they-dont-teach-you-at-creative-writing-school.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/magvxch
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Ever since I was a teenager Ive collected How to books about writing. I
have a shelf of them, and recently I was looking at some material about
plot, structure and narrative, the technical part of writing, with the
thought that I might pick up something new. There are courses about this
stuff everywhere all the time, and, as writing teachers, we are constantly
asked questions about the arc and the journey or: How do you make the
structure work?, What is good dialogue? These are boring questions, and
the answers are boring. The teacher and the student are enacting their
roles perfectly, keeping everything nicely mundane, only talking about
things that can be taught, or maybe learnt. Through being mortified like
this, the whole question of art seems manageable. The most important
element is missing.
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If you think of the real thing of, say, Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, or
Stevensons Jekyll and Hyde, or Wildes Dorian Gray, or perhaps Cheevers
great story The Swimmer, or Kafkas Metamorphosis, or any of the work of
Carver or Plath you have to begin to think about the wild implausibility,
boldness and brilliance of the artists idea or metaphor rather than the
arrangement of paragraphs. Once you start thinking about this you have to
think about the imagination and how it works, of where it might come from,
and where it might take you. Then youre in useful trouble.
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Most people have good ideas all the time, they just prefer not to notice
them. Yet the authors just mentioned found solutions to conflicts that
were bothering or even tormenting them, conflicts that must have seemed
like holes or impossibilities at the time, and which eventually demanded a
creative leap into a new way of seeing. Their imaginations were
transformative, a going beyond, requiring that a new thing be made out of
old things, which were then put together in shocking and disruptive
combinations that are fresh even today.
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It could easily be the case that unbearable conflict might produce
depression or self-hatred. You could call depression a failure of the
imagination, a self-sabotaging refusal to consider a creative solution or
look forward. Such conflicts might also produce art, the work itself
representing the impossibility.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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