The Cambridge Introduction to
Creative Writing Preface WRITING GAME 0.1 Acknowledgement WRITING GAME 0 In Your End Is Your Beginning Chapter 1: Introduction to Creative Writing A. An Open Space 1 The Iceberg 2 New Worlds 3 Why We Write B. A Balance WRITING GAME 1.1 The Word Hoard C. Learning to Write 1 A Continent 2 Imagination’s Talent 3 A Play of Mind WRITING GAME 1.2 Discovering Your Continent 4 A Psychological Apprenticeship 5 Passion 6 Vocation’s Providence WRITING GAME 1.3 Observing Sermons 7 Honesty of the Amateur 8 Purposes D. Creative Writing in Time 1 Inventions of Creative Writing 2 Rhetoric’s Play 3 A Tradition of Revolution WRITING GAME 1.4 Recreating the Snow-Child
E. The School of Wildness 1 Necessary Wildness 2 What Wildness is Shaping 3 A Total Process 4 Creative Communities 5 The Sister Arts WRITING GAME 1.5 Responding to Art F. Reading and the Individual Writer 1 Why We Read WRITING GAME 1.6 Adventures in Reading
2 Language’s Music WRITING GAME 1.7 Listening and Reading Aloud 3 Creative Reading 4 Reading Across Time 5 Reading Across Taste 6 Appetite & Abilities 7 A New Maze WRITING GAME 1.8 Listening and Reading Aloud 8 Recommended Reading Chapter 2: Creative Writing in the World A. Creative Writing and Creative Criticism 1 Reflective Criticism WRITING GAME 2.1 Who Are You? 2 Writing Reflective Essays 3 Reading Yourself as a Writer WRITING GAME 2.2 Reflective Thinking
4 Notional Subjectivity B. Classrooms on the World 1 Writing as Teaching 2 A Marriage of Heaven & Hell C. Experience 1 Capture Ideas for Writing 2 What We Know and What We Do Not Know