The Clay Writer [electronic resource] : Shaping in Creative Writing /
Živković, Zoran.author.
This concise book by the well-known Serbian writer and literary researcher summarizes his decade-long experience of teaching creative writing at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. Always offering attendees four good reasons for not attending his course, or, in a broader perspective, discouraging them from professional writing altogether, the author reflects ultimately on what it really takes to become a writer of literary fiction. This essay, which makes up the first part of this work, is complemented by a selection of witty short stories, forming the second part, and which have been used as templates in the teaching context.
Part I Essays -- The Clay Writer -- Annotations 1 -- Part II Fiction -- The Telephone -- Sherlock Holmes’ Last Case: The Letter.-Fingernails -- Lost Illusions -- The First Loop -- Infernal Library -- Annotations 2.
This concise book by the well-known Serbian writer and literary researcher summarizes his decade-long experience of teaching creative writing at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. Always offering attendees four good reasons for not attending his course, or, in a broader perspective, discouraging them from professional writing altogether, the author reflects ultimately on what it really takes to become a writer of literary fiction. This essay, which makes up the first part of this work, is complemented by a selection of witty short stories, forming the second part, and which have been used as templates in the teaching context.
Creative writing.
Literature.
Fiction.
Creative Writing.
Popular Science in Literature.
Fiction.