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May 25, 2011 · The first classes in creative writing were offered at Harvard University in the 1880s and were wildly popular from the beginning with over 150 students enrolling in 1885.
At undergraduate level, classes in Creative Writing soon became commonplace – and popular – while remaining faithful to the founding pedagogical goal of achieving critical understanding through creative practice.
- Oral Storytelling
- The Written Word
- The Printing Press
- Typewriters
- Computers
- Non-Linear Word Processing Software
- Digital Publishing
Originally, stories were passed from generation to generation through oral storytelling traditions. In these traditions, the primary “writing” tool was the storyteller’s memory and voice, though stories were often augmented by instruments and dance. Stories were imbued with the personality of the teller, and took on color in the creative exchange w...
It wasn't until (relatively) recently, with the invention of the written word (archaeologists place its formation around 3200 BC, depending on location) that we started writing stories down. This is where the history of creative writing really begins. Some of the earliest examples of written stories in the Western tradition are the Bible and Homer'...
Apart from the expense of writing in ancient times, many obstacles to distribution had to be surmounted. The Bible is an example of a collection of stories that found early success and popularity. But access was limited. Bibles were copied out by handand manually bound. This laborious process continued for several hundred years, until Gutenberg cam...
Around the late 1800s, the invention of the typewriterbegan to develop the creative writing process in earnest. The typewriter quickly became an indispensable tool for writers. Instead of writing a story by hand, then having it typeset by a printing press, a writer could now push buttonsto get their words printed directly on the page. It made the w...
A hundred years later, computers were invented and another dramatic shift in the writing process was made possible. Instead of typing a story on paper, writers could type it on a screen—no more white out, no more wasted paper. The invention of computers, and the writing software developed for them, marks the next evolutionary step in writing tools....
This brief history of creative writing tools brings us to the present day. And yet, word processing software has not changed all that much in recent years. Modern versions of Microsoft Word, for example, are almost identical to the version from 1997 on which I first learned word processing. That annoying paperclip fellow is gone, but the interface ...
Modern authors also need tools that gives them a leg up on the digital first approach. Anyone who has ever tried to convert a Microsoft Word document into an ebook will sympathize with this challenge—Word has a penchant for adding hidden formatting tags and making it difficult for writers to convert their stories into publishable digital formats. T...
In this essay I propose to show that creative writing arose during a sixty-year period from about 1880 to 1940 as an effort to reform the study of literature. As originally envisioned, creative writing was not a scheme forturning out official 33; Greg Kuzma, "The Catastrophe of Creative Writing," Poetry, 148 (1986), 342-54; Bruce
Creative Writing was a significant element, while figures supplied by the Higher Education Statistics Agency show that enrolment for courses in which ‘Imaginative Writing’ was the major element climbed from 2,745 in 2003 to 6,945 in 2012 (Munden, 2013, p. 8). Corroboration of this
Jul 23, 2023 · Creative writing is almost entirely about our quality of life, our human engagement with the world and with each other. Unlike medical research, researching in this field is clearly not about saving lives. It is broadly about life experiences and about life qualities.
In The Elephants Teach, his analysis of the complex history of Creative Writing as a university subject in the United States, D. G. Myers remarks that Creative Writing achieved its ‘full growth’ as a discipline in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
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