Creative Writing for Social Research

INTRODUCTION


Definitions


~ Social research


~ Creativity and creative


~ Writing and creative writing


Synergies between creative writing and social research


What follows





DOING CREATIVE WRITING


Introduction


Doing it yourself: getting started


~ Reading for writing


~ Small steps and time frames


~ Warm-up exercises


Putting yourself in the picture


~ Writing in the first person


~ Diaries and journals


Observation and description


~ Autoethnography


~ Observational writing and the implied observer


~ Stories and storying


~ Collecting and transcribing stories


Writing about ideas: essays and lists


~ Essays


~ Lists and listing


Doing it yourself: following through


~ Drafting and editing


~ Seeking and receiving feedback


~ Writing together





DOING RSEARCH, GENERATING DATA, WORKING WITH PARTICIPANTS


Introduction


~ Rationale


~ Ethics


Getting started: participatory creative writing for social research


~ What is a participant?


~ How to invite or recruit participants


Workshops and groups


~ How to draw participants together into a cohesive group


~ Playful workshops


~ Getting started, warming up


~ How to write, review and revise together: workshopping


~ Scope


Working with individuals


~ Varying roles for participants and facilitators


Data and findings: process and product


~ Observing and documenting the creative writing process


~ Product: outputs and impacts





EXPLORING AND ARTICULATING FINDINGS


Introduction


Data analysis


~ Fiction in data analysis


~ Poetry in data analysis


~ Play and screenplay writing in data analysis


Dissemination


~ Visual methods of writing for dissemination


~ Performance for dissemination


~ Comedy in dissemination


Finding and telling stories; storying





SEARCHING AND QUEER(ING) WRITING


Introduction


Searching


Queer(ing) writing