Fox, Ocean, Island
Drafting – drifting – beyond human (point of) view
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https://doi.org/10.60162/swamphen.11.18055Abstract
What is the relationship between novel writing and new points of view? How can our creative practice – our respective creative practices – enable us to move on from, rather than reinforce, traditional narrative perspective(s) and the textual conventions associated with long-form non-traditional research outputs? In this essay we three researcher-writers reflect on and share revisions of our draft manuscripts to illustrate the ways in which the novel – including literary works, which Ken Gelder calls ‘Big L’ literature (Gelder 11) – may answer Donna Haraway’s call for ‘speculative fabulations’. Our case studies consider craft in context – the artistic and political considerations that have gone into our individual conceptions – to tease out specific strategies that have enabled us, as emerging and becoming-established creative practice researchers, to develop the ethics and aesthetics of three particular works-in-progress. This paper contributes to creative writing methodology – a process of thinking, reading, writing, reflecting, and editing – to share knowledge developed along the way to final fictional forms and formal, academic-accredited creative outputs.
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