Creative Writing - The Matrix: Exercises and Ideas for Creative Writing Teachers

by Susan Lee Kerr

With 95 exercises and 21 mini-lectures, Creative the Matrix is for writers who teach or are about to teach creative writing to adults. Can be adapted by teachers for all levels and circumstances of teaching creative writing, and by individual writers and writers' circles. *Contents arranged in 5 Nurture, Running the Course -- planning, pacing, forming and supporting the group (and the tutor); guidelines for non-destructive workshopping. Stimulus -- over 40 exercises plus methods to light the creative spark. Craft -- honing the skills, 40 more exercises including story-starters, character, p.o.v., dialogue, scene, plot, richer writing. Process -- 7 tools to aid the creative process, plus mini-lectures and exercises to help break through inhibitions and procrastination; routes to publication.

138 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2007

About the author

Susan Lee Kerr is a creative writing tutor/coach, haiku poet and author. She is still under the influence of her great grandfather, having researched, written and just recently published his true life story as a novel. She chose to use imagination to give depth to facts.

Susan has also just published an ebook collection of exercises, ideas and advice for creative writing teachers, having herself taught 29,000 student hours of creative writing.

Conceived in Australia, Susan was born in West Virginia, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Gettysburg College, a Mademoiselle magazine Guest Editor and a New Yorker until half her lifetime ago she struck new roots (and true love) in England.