The writer walking the dog: creative writing practice and everyday life

遛狗的作家：创意写作实践与日常生活

• 批准号: AH/J007706/1
• 负责人: Tony Williams
• 金额: $ 5.66万
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ007706%2F1
• 关键词: writer; walking; dog; creative; writing

Writers write inside the routine of their daily lives, but the role of daily routines, duties and activities in shaping writing practice is not well understood. This study explores how the writer's daily chore of walking the dog contributes to writerly and social identity; shapes what is written - and how; and impedes, supports and shapes the techniques and rhythms of the working day. It is fundamentally a reflective project which offers a study of the writer's own creative practice, based on daily writing and reflection on a series of walks, providing a model for other practitioners and walkers to understand, contextualise and develop their own lives and practices.Walking has been a key topic for cultural and human geographers, social theorists, and artistic movements from the flâneurs to the Situationists to the psychogeographers and contemporary artists. Although much attention has been paid to walking considered as a cultural and aesthetic practice, this will be the first study of the role of dog-walking as a tool or instrument in creative writing practice. How does this daily chore impact on the daily business of writing? Is it simply an interruption or break in which work ceases entirely? Does it provide space for meditation or thinking things through. Can writing happen during the walk itself? And how does the nature of the activity - walking through a familiar landscape along established routes at particular times throughout the year - feed into the way the writer thinks and works?The study explores a number of relevant literary traditions, including landscape poetry, the Romantics, psychogeography, the picaresque, and rural, travel and memoir writing, and on a number of tropes such as dreams, imaginary walks, and lone walking, as well as the work of a range of specific writers including Francis Kilvert, Richard Jefferies, Harriet Tarlo, Iain Sinclair, Peter Didsbury, WG Sebald and VS Naipaul, in order to situate the writer's own writing practice and develop it further. It also considers the various techniques which writers, artists and cultural geographers have used to record their walking, and uses these to produce a book length piece of creative prose describing a series of imaginary walks.The aim of the project is not simply to reflect on the writer's own daily life and writing practice, but to provide a case study and a model for how other writers can think about their work in relation to the rhythms and routines of their daily lives. In this way it opens up an undeveloped area of enquiry into creative practice. In particular, by considering walking as both a socio-cultural practice in its own right and as a contributory practice to creative endeavour, it indicates ways in which writers and artists might negotiate the competing imperatives of daily and creative life and the different ways they might be seen by themselves and others.

作家在日常生活中写作，但日常生活、职责和活动在塑造写作实践中的作用还没有得到很好的理解。本研究探讨了作家的日常琐事遛狗有助于作家和社会身份;形状写什么-以及如何;和阻碍，支持和形状的技术和节奏的工作日。从根本上说，这是一个反思性的项目，它提供了一个作家自己的创作实践的研究，基于日常写作和一系列步行的反思，为其他从业者和步行者提供了一个模型，以理解，情境化和发展自己的生活和实践。步行一直是文化和人文地理学家，社会理论家，从流浪者到情境主义者，再到心理地理学家和当代艺术家。尽管人们已经把遛狗作为一种文化和审美实践来关注，但这将是第一次研究遛狗作为一种工具或工具在创作实践中的作用。这些日常琐事对日常写作有何影响？它仅仅是工作完全停止的中断或中断吗？它是否提供了冥想或思考的空间。写作可以在行走过程中进行吗？活动的性质--在一年中的特定时间里沿着沿着既定的路线走过一片熟悉的风景--是如何融入作家的思考和工作方式的？该研究探讨了一些相关的文学传统，包括风景诗，浪漫主义，心理地理学，流浪汉，和农村，旅行和回忆录写作，并对一些比喻，如梦想，想象中的散步，和孤独的步行，以及一系列具体作家的工作，包括弗朗西斯基尔弗特，理查德杰弗里斯，哈里特塔罗，伊恩辛克莱，彼得迪茨伯里，工作组西博尔德和VS奈保尔，以丰富作者的写作实践，使其更进一步。它还考虑了作家、艺术家和文化地理学家用来记录他们行走的各种技术，并利用这些技术创作了一本书长的创造性散文，描述了一系列想象中的行走。该项目的目的不仅仅是反思作家自己的日常生活和写作实践，而是提供一个案例研究和一个模型，让其他作家如何思考他们的作品与他们日常生活的节奏和惯例的关系。这样，它就为创造性实践开辟了一个尚未开发的研究领域。特别是，通过将步行视为一种社会文化实践本身，以及对创造性努力的贡献，它表明了作家和艺术家可以如何应对日常生活和创造性生活的相互竞争的必要性，以及他们自己和他人可能看到的不同方式。

项目成果

Iterations: Days, walks, episodes, chapters, scenes

迭代：日、行走、剧集、章节、场景

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Williams, T

Their Colours and Their Forms: Artists' Responses to Wordsworth

它们的颜色和形式：艺术家对华兹华斯的回应

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: MacKay Carol

The Midlands

中部地区

• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Williams Tony

The Writer Walking the Dog: Creative Writing Practice and Everyday Life

遛狗的作家：创意写作实践与日常生活

• DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2013-0016
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: American, British and Canadian Studies Journal
• 作者: Williams T