Title
Experience and Imagination: A Pedagogical Approach to Write What You Know
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Pedagogical approach for helping introductory creative writing students to discern and imaginatively expand on their own significant experience. Provides writing prompts based on authors noted for writing about what they knew, including Hemingway and Flannery O'Connor. Trainor recommends "Cat in the Rain" and "Hills Like White Elephants" as models for helping students analyze their inspiration and writing.
Published in
New Writing
Volume
18
Issue
2
Date
2021
Pages
186-196
COinS
Citation
Trainor, Maureen McVeigh. "Experience and Imagination: A Pedagogical Approach to Write What You Know." New Writing 18, no. 2 (May 2021): 186-96.