ABSTRACT
Knowing something about your project, though never enough (you always say!), you set forward. Your project is writing a novel. Your project is writing a poem. Your project is creating the flow chart, the character biographies, and the dialogue for characters who are not players in a video game. Your project is any of these projects! Knowing something, but not enough, you are researching through the practice of writing creatively – a creative-critical project in which you are declaratively engaged in the search for answers to a question of creative writing structure or content, action or reaction, type, genre, form, perception or meaning. Your achievement will be to add to your personal knowledge of one or many of these things; and, it might be, to add to our societal knowledge or creative writing. The movements here are constant, and compositional, responsive not simply reflective: the methodology is one of incorporation, seek, discover, apply, in constant composing. The results will be many, some predicted, some unpredictable – all part of practicing creative writing with the objective of analysing it as you do it, when you reflect on it (and then respond to that reflection), through the act of doing and the ideal of understanding what you are doing.
