ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to stimulate creative writer's thinking or to add some additional thinking to it – if they choose to adopt one or more of the approaches, of course. It considers how creative writers can approach the physical and mental attributes that are present and applied during the writing – what some have called the ‘process’, though process is most often associated with a series of actions, focused on a defined end. The book then addresses the methods of analysis that have been developed – and continue to be developed – through the undertaking of creative projects. It also details the approaches seen in Literary Studies, though of course complete creative writing texts are incredibly varied and not all have regularly been of interest to literary scholars.
