ABSTRACT
The term 'creative exposition' refers to critical, investigative approaches specifically focused on the exploration of creative writing. The aim of creative exposition is to increase understanding about how creative writing happens, what informs it, what propels it, what contributes to it, how and in what ways. Investigating creative writing can happen through the practice of creative writing and through the critical examination of actions and materials produced by a creative writer. Reasons for undertaking creative writing are as varied as are the creative writers in the world. They range very generally from intentions related purely to self-expression to those connected with commercial and professional needs, from the exploring of imaginative fantasies to the creative address of real-world issues, histories and persons. Situational knowledge is developed, and indeed needed, to approach questions, challenges and complications in the practice of creative writing, as well as to recognize imaginative opportunities.
