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Spaces of Creation: The Creative Process of Playwriting by Suzan Zeder
Suzan Zeder and Jim Hancock understand the forces at work inside writers, and in Spaces of Creation, they offer insights, exercises, and etudes intended to guide you through the process of accessing ideas and images from your own inner resources of mind and body. You will embark on an inward journey through a variety of spaces - geographical, cultural, psychological, architectural - opening your writing to new generative pathways and finding creative impulses that may have been previously veiled in fear or uncertainty.
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First published July 1, 2005
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February 11, 2022
This is definitely a different type of craft book from what I am used to.
Each chapter explores different "spaces" for creation, including the child space, the psychophysical space, the interpersonal space, the sacred space, the dream space, and the geographical space. Each chapter also ends with a series of physical exercises for the reader to perform to help get them into these spaces of creation. What I gained from this book uniquely was the concepts; I learned about new concepts such as geopathology and neuro-linguistic-programming, alongside traditional concepts like Aristotle's traditional sequence of action. Most other craft books are really focused on the same things, the same plot ideas and character development ideas, whereas this one also talked about experimental plays, and language-based plays. This book focused on drawing inspiration from the real world and definitely left me motivated and with a list of ideas and concepts to explore in my upcoming writing.
Each chapter explores different "spaces" for creation, including the child space, the psychophysical space, the interpersonal space, the sacred space, the dream space, and the geographical space. Each chapter also ends with a series of physical exercises for the reader to perform to help get them into these spaces of creation. What I gained from this book uniquely was the concepts; I learned about new concepts such as geopathology and neuro-linguistic-programming, alongside traditional concepts like Aristotle's traditional sequence of action. Most other craft books are really focused on the same things, the same plot ideas and character development ideas, whereas this one also talked about experimental plays, and language-based plays. This book focused on drawing inspiration from the real world and definitely left me motivated and with a list of ideas and concepts to explore in my upcoming writing.
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