The Corrections: Succeeding at Failure in the Creative Process

Adelaide, D

The Corrections: Succeeding at Failure in the Creative Process

Adelaide, D

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Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Creative Writing Practice Reflections on Form and Process, 2021, pp. 161-175
Issue Date:: 2021-11-13

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dc.contributor.author	Adelaide, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3220-8821
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-10T20:00:43Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-10T20:00:43Z
dc.date.issued	2021-11-13
dc.identifier.citation	Creative Writing Practice Reflections on Form and Process, 2021, pp. 161-175
dc.identifier.isbn	3030736733
dc.identifier.isbn	9783030736736
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dc.description.abstract	Failure is embedded within any creative process, and a writer’s number of drafts may be regarded as a series of perfect failures that are all necessary in order for the work to achieve final completion. Writing about Flaubert’s struggles with style, Roland Barthes claimed there is a ‘linguistics of corrections’ which is beyond the usual corrections of style that writers must make in order to complete their work. These corrections are not arbitrary, but mean the writer experiences the ‘structure of the language as a passion’. Failure in writing is therefore something to be understood and embraced as a process, rather than an obstacle to be surmounted. Using references to the author’s own hard-earned but ultimate success in turning a short story into a novel, this chapter examines the process of failure and how creative writers learn from it..
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dc.title	The Corrections: Succeeding at Failure in the Creative Process
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
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Failure is embedded within any creative process, and a writer’s number of drafts may be regarded as a series of perfect failures that are all necessary in order for the work to achieve final completion. Writing about Flaubert’s struggles with style, Roland Barthes claimed there is a ‘linguistics of corrections’ which is beyond the usual corrections of style that writers must make in order to complete their work. These corrections are not arbitrary, but mean the writer experiences the ‘structure of the language as a passion’. Failure in writing is therefore something to be understood and embraced as a process, rather than an obstacle to be surmounted. Using references to the author’s own hard-earned but ultimate success in turning a short story into a novel, this chapter examines the process of failure and how creative writers learn from it..

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