It does not take a great depth of knowledge or breadth of understanding to be aware that creative writing involves some kind of critical engagement with the world. Equally, it is hardly revelatory to suggest that this critical engagement encompasses knowledge about, and understanding of, the form and function of a particular piece of creative writing - certainly the piece of creative writing being undertaken and, dependent on the experience of the writer, more or less of a range of other pieces of creative writing that have come before it.rnCreative writing thus has a critical landscape that is multi-dimensional. It might be thought of as a dimension layered in response to the needs of the writer: at one moment relating to the structural or the formal, at other points to the thematic or subject based, at other points to the history of a genre or set of genres, and so on and so on, each layer forming an element of the complete landscape that emerges, 'in process' and in reflection on process and product.
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