Habits of the Creative Mind

by Richard E. Miller, Ann Jurecic

Overview

Habits of the Creative Mind is a portable and affordable text that centers on ten habits that encourage curious, thoughtful and reflective writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781457681813
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	10/01/2015
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Richard E. Miller has written and lectured extensively on how digital technology is transforming higher education. He is an award-winning teacher, an avid blogger, an amateur graphic novelist, and a poet.

Ann Jurecic is the author of Illness as Narrative, which examines how writers, both literary and amateur, have used writing to make meaning of illness, loss, and impermanence. Her academic work explores the intersection of writing studies, literary studies, and the medical humanities. Jurecic is also an award-winning teacher and she writes a column for the medical journal The Lancet.

Richard E. Miller and Ann Jurecic teach at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Preface

ONE: Orienting
On Habits
On Unlearning
On a Space of Your Own

TWO: Paying Attention
On Learning to See
On Looking and Looking Again
On Paying Attention to Words

THREE: Questioning
On Asking Good Questions
On Writing to a Question
On Question-Driven Writing

FOUR: Exploring
On Going Down the Rabbit Hole
On Creative Reading
On Choosing Your Own Adventure

FIVE: Connecting
On the Three Most Important Words in the English Language
On Joining the Conversation
On Working with the Words of Others

SIX: Reflecting
On Seeing as a Writer
On Reading as a Writer
On Reading in Slow Motion

SEVEN: Persisting
On Encountering Difficulty
On Learning from Failure
On Thinking Unthinkable Thoughts

EIGHT: Rethinking
On Letting Go of Writing-by-Formula
On Structure
On Revising

NINE: Wondering
On Argument as Journey
On Imagining Alternatives
On Complexity

TEN: Playing
On Laughter
On Bending Conventions
On the Joys of Pseudonymous Writing

Readings
Frederick Douglass, The Woman’s Cause
Eula Biss, Excerpt from On Immunity: An Inoculation
Cathy Park Hong, Bad English
Andrew Leland, DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch
Jia Tolentino, Can Motherhood Be a Form of Rebellion?
Jesmyn Ward, Cracking the Code