Mindfulness and Creative Writing

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  One of the purposes of teaching creative writing is ‘to heal’, in other words, creative writing is taught as a form of therapy, maybe more than is openly stated. Many teachers set therapeutic tasks so the author can learn and grow from the experience of writing about it.

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  For all creative writers who wish to explore writing processes further, using established research.

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• Becoming the falconer: productive feedback for the redrafting of creative writing

  Aspects of the neoliberal education system can preclude the development of young writers. Feedback can be unempathetic, but it can also be productive, creating an internal dialogue that develops the writer over time.

• The Creative Writing Teacher’s Toolkit

  There are certain pedagogical strategies, such as encouraging freewriting, using prompts and fostering flow which can significantly help learners to write creatively.