course A [ ] ‘Creative Writing 1: Landscapes’

1. Who'd Be A Writer? Fun, Profit And Plato's Cave...

•	why write? you and the need to say it...
•	who are you talking to and why do you want to tell someone like them anyway?
•	if you really want to tell them, what is the best way to say it?

2. The Commonality Of Language - " I thought I Understood And I Guess I'll Get Back To You...Soon".

•	your personal philosophy and how to make it make sense (in writing that is)
•	looking at it from the outside - what is its shape and why are there holes?
•	what I say is not what you understand - eyes, mouths and ears are all different...

3. The Self Versus The Non-Self (And Visa-Versa)

•	tension in description - up, down, left, right so what's implied in between?
•	if I were to describe me as someone else saw me what would it read like?

4. What Is A Landscape And Why? Do We Live In It Or Does It Live In Us And Should We Ever Give A Damn?

•	they're all made up of living and non-living things, but what do you focus on that makes them unique?
•	these are the things that I see which makes each landscape unique, so what does that mean to me?

5. Take This Object And Make Into A Living Thing (Outside)

•	love between rocks/the sadness of a discarded wrapper/the frenzied enlightenment of a microwave...

6. Take This Person And Explain What They Mean (Inside)

•	all the emotions stacked like cards/all the thoughts created for an end/all physical action defined for a purpose...

7. Time, Space, Things Happen And All That Jazz (Contrapuntal Harmony Summarised).

•	in the beginning was the beginning, in the end was the beginning of the next end.
•	in between, objects and animals and people collide, generally for a purpose, where someone or something decides to act.

8. Here It Is From Heaven, Here It Is From The Ant, So Who's Wearing The Sunglasses?

•	from the top of the mountain, you can describe the pattern as a pattern, on the ground looking up you never know what's going to happen next
•	is any one view better, different, easier, more correct?
•	can you be in both places at the same time?

9. The Grand Composition (Flowers And Mutations) - How Do You Cut And Why Isn't It More Painless?

•	no real answers here, just taste, style, aspects of all of the above and, of course the writing...

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