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"Make It Uglier. Make It Hurt. Make It Real": Narrative Construction of the Creative Writer's Identity

Susan X Day
Pages 127-136 | Published online: 08 Jun 2010

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Rachel Hennessy. (2021) Am I no longer a writer? ‘Universal’ tenets and the writing/teaching self. New Writing 18:2, pages 125-133.
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Maria Eugenia Panero. (2019) A Psychological Exploration of the Experience of Acting. Creativity Research Journal 31:4, pages 428-442.
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Joanne Yoo. (2018) Teachers as creative writers: needs, desires and opportunities for growth. New Writing 15:3, pages 300-310.
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Teresa Cremin & Lucy Oliver. (2017) Teachers as writers: a systematic review. Research Papers in Education 32:3, pages 269-295.
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Elizabeth Forbes. (2017) Multiple facets of the developing writer. New Writing 14:2, pages 265-274.
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Paula Thomson & S. Victoria Jaque. (2012) Dissociation and the Adult Attachment Interview in artists and performing artists. Attachment & Human Development 14:2, pages 145-160.
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Marguerite MacRobert. (2010) Right before Writing. Journal of Literary Studies 26:2, pages 33-43.
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Paula Thomson, E. B. Keehn & ThomasP. Gumpel. (2009) Generators and Interpretors in a Performing Arts Population: Dissociation, Trauma, Fantasy Proneness, and Affective States. Creativity Research Journal 21:1, pages 72-91.
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Adele Kohanyi. (2005) Turning Inward Versus Turning Outward: A Retrospective Study of the Childhoods of Creative Writers Versus Journalists. Creativity Research Journal 17:4, pages 309-320.
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Angelique Nairn. (2022) The me you see: The creative identity as constructed in music documentaries. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 11:1, pages 9-26.
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Jina Mao & Yan Shen. (2020) Identity as career capital: enhancing employability in the creative industries and beyond. Career Development International 25:2, pages 186-203.
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Alison Baverstock & Jackie Steinitz. (2019) What Makes a Writer? How Do Early Influences Shape, and Working Habits Develop, Those Who Write?. Publishing Research Quarterly 35:3, pages 327-351.
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Izabela Lebuda & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. 2017. The Creative Self. The Creative Self 137 152 .
Jill M. Olthouse & Adrienne E. Sauder. (2016) Purpose and Process in Exemplary Teen Writings. Journal for the Education of the Gifted 39:3, pages 171-194.
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Vlad Petre Glăveanu & Lene Tanggaard. (2014) Creativity, identity, and representation: Towards a socio-cultural theory of creative identity. New Ideas in Psychology 34, pages 12-21.
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Jill M. Olthouse. (2012) Talented Young Writers’ Relationships With Writing. Journal for the Education of the Gifted 35:1, pages 66-80.
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Jane Wright. (2008) Searching one’s self: the autoethnography of a nurse teacher. Journal of Research in Nursing 13:4, pages 338-347.
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Deborah Ben-Shir. (2008) Born to Write: Discovery and Construction of Self in the Identity Stories of Poets and Writers. Qualitative Sociology Review 4:1, pages 21-45.
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Adele Kohanyi. (2005) Four Factors That May Predict the Emergence of Creative Writing: A Proposed Model. Creativity Research Journal 17:2, pages 195-205.
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