Writing 'dark fiction': an autoethnographic reflection.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at a multidisciplinary conference on 'dark heritage' in 2019. It describes and reflects on my experience of writing a short story for submission to a commercial 'dark fiction' anthology and discusses the social, personal, and linguistic factors which co...
| Publicado en: | New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 29 - 42 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=161985753&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 161985753 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14790726 V4D jtl: New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing issn: 14790726 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2023 vid: 20 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 161985753 10.1080/14790726.2021.2004170 ppf: 29 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 888KB tig: atl: Writing 'dark fiction': an autoethnographic reflection. aug: au: Lee-Price, Simon affil: Directorate for Student Success, Buckinghamshire New University, Buckinghamshire, England su: Autoethnography Creative writing Self-consciousness (Awareness) Stereotypes Scholarly publishing sug: subj: Autoethnography Creative writing Self-consciousness (Awareness) Stereotypes Scholarly publishing keyword: creative writing dark fiction heritage ab: An earlier version of this paper was presented at a multidisciplinary conference on 'dark heritage' in 2019. It describes and reflects on my experience of writing a short story for submission to a commercial 'dark fiction' anthology and discusses the social, personal, and linguistic factors which contribute to the production of a popular literary text. In particular, it examines to what extent negative connotations of 'darkness' as well as stereotypical representations of the monstrous can be avoided or subverted, while at the same time adhering to the genre requirements of a commercial publisher's brief and writing to a deadline. The approach I take is broadly autoethnographic: my 'data' includes 'field notes' that I kept throughout the writing process and daily captures of the story as it progressed toward completion. By bringing to light the process through which a dark text is produced, I offer a means for thinking about the deployment and interpretation of tropes of darkness in scholarly and imaginative writing. It is hoped that the autoethnographic methods I employ could be suitably adapted for use in creative writing studies as a means of developing students' and teachers' writerly self-awareness. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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