Behind the lines : creative writing with offenders and people at risk / / Michael Crowley ; with a foreword by David Ramsbotham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971543603321
• Autore: Crowley Michael <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hook, Hampshire, : Waterside Press, 2012
• ISBN: 9781908162649; 1908162643; 9781908162120; 1908162120
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages ) : illustrations (black and white)
• Altri autori (Persone): RamsbothamDavid, Sir.
• Disciplina: 808.042
• Soggetti: Creative writing - Study and teaching - Great Britain; Criminals - Rehabilitation - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover -- Reviews of Behind the Lines -- Copyright -- Contents -- By the same author: -- The Author -- Author of the Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Dedication -- How to Use this Book -- The Case for the Prosecution -- Starting from Scratch -- 2.1 The Uses of Autobiographical Writing -- 2.2 Beginnings -- Discussion Suggestion 1 -- Exercise 1 What's in a Name? -- Exercise 2 Angel Heart -- Exercise 3 Diary Exercise -- Exercise 4 Wouldn't Want To Be You -- 2.3 Automatic Writing -- Exercise 5 Automatic Writing -- 2.4 Automatic Writing -- Exercise 6 Concentrating on the Senses -- 2.5 Letters to Myself -- 2.6 Variations on a Theme -- Exercise 7 Warm-up Exercise -- 2.7 How Many of You Are There? -- Exercise 8 Me Myself I (Drug and Alcohol work) -- Exercise 9 Body Self Exercise 1 -- Exercise 10 Body Self Exercise 2 -- Discussion Suggestion 3 -- Exercise 11 Look Who's Talking -- 2.8 The Small Picture -- Exercise 12 Today My Hand -- Exercise 13 Emotion into Memoir -- Exercise 14 Shade of a Memory -- Exercise 15 Close to Home -- Discussion Suggestion 4 -- 2.9 Autobiographical Writing and Health -- Exercise 16 Witness Statement -- 2.10 Autobiography and Empathy -- Exercise 17 Victim Statement -- Discussion Suggestion 5 -- Exercise 18 Baggage -- Exercise 19 ; Choose Three Scenes -- Discussion Suggestion 6 -- Fictional Lives for Real Events -- 3.1 Exercises to Create Characters -- 3.2 Working from Images -- Exercise 20 Someone Like You 1 -- Exercise 21 Someone Like You 2 -- Exercise 22 Someone Like You 3 -- Exercise 23 Who's to Say? -- Exercise 24 Interpretations5 -- Discussion Suggestion 7 and Exercise Development -- Exercise 25 Take a Photograph of an Individual -- Exercise 26 Take a Photograph of a Couple -- Discussion Suggestion 8 and Exercise Development -- Exercise 27 It's Not What it Looks Like -- 3.3 Postcards from Strangers.; 3.4 Handling Property -- Exercise 28 Between the Lines -- Exercise 29 About Their Person -- Discussion Suggestion 9 -- Exercise 30 Buttons -- Exercise 31 Devils and Angels We Know -- 3.5 Character as Trait -- Discussion Suggestion 10 -- 3.6 Character as Motive -- Exercise 32 The Good and Bad in Everyone -- Discussion Suggestion 11 -- Exercise 33 Motive Versus Conscience -- Exercise 34 Motive Versus Trait -- First and Last Lines -- 4.1 Story as Intervention -- Exercise 35 Far and Away (Image) -- Exercise 36 Far and Away (Sound) -- 4.2 Generating Narrative -- Exercise 37 Fortunately Unfortunately -- Exercise 38 Go For It -- Exercise 39 The Alphabet Story -- Exercise 40 Legend Has It -- Exercise 41 Telling Tales -- 4.3 Story as Change -- Exercise 42 First and Last Scenes 1 -- Exercise 43 First and Last Lines 2 -- Discussion Suggestion 12 -- 4.4 Story as Premise -- Discussion Suggestion 13 -- Exercise 44 You and Your Big Ideas -- 4.5 Story as Conflict -- Discussion Suggestion 14 -- Exercise 45 Write What You Don't Know -- 4.6 Action and Consequences -- Discussion Suggestion 15 -- 4.7 Narrative that Reveals and Conceals -- Past and Future Scenes -- 5.1 Writing Drama as Intervention -- 5.2 Dramatic Lives -- Mates -- Exercise 46 Making a Scene (Plot) -- The Berth -- Exercise 47 Making a Scene (Character) -- Exercise 48 Making a Scene (The World) -- Discussion Suggestion 16 -- 5.3 Over the Bridge -- Eddie's Kitchen -- Exercise 49 What's Cooking? -- Discussion Suggestion 17 -- Exercise 50 It's Complicated -- Discussion Suggestion 18 -- Exercise 51 Coming Clean -- Exercise 52 Sticky Wicket # 1 -- Exercise 53 Sticky Wicket # 2 -- Exercise 54 Sticky Wicket # 3 -- Discussion Suggestion 19 -- 5.4 A Word about Dialogue -- Exercise 55 What's My Motivation? -- Exercise 56 Lend Me Your Ear -- Exercise 57 Lend Me Your Voice -- Exercise 58 Behind the Lines (Dialogue).; The Listener -- Exercise 59 The Mattress -- Exercise 60 The Telephone Conversation -- Discussion Suggestion 20 -- Discussion Suggestion 21 -- Exercise 61 Who Wasn't There? -- Exercise 62 Aftermath -- 5.5 A Word about Monologue -- 5.6 About Improvisation and Performance -- Discussion Suggestion 22 -- Exercise 63 As You Like It -- Exercise 64 Power and its Uses -- Discussion Suggestion 23 -- What Poetry Can Do -- Exercise 65 The Thing You Can't Remember -- Exercise 66 Nouns and Verbs -- Exercise 67 Odd Descriptions -- Exercise 68 Animal Vegetable Mineral -- Exercise 69 Do the Opposite -- Exercise 70 No Fairytale -- 6.1 Poem from a Poem -- 6.2 Personal and Public Events -- Exercise 71 I Read the News Today -- Exercise 72 Influences -- Discussion Suggestion 24 -- Action into Words -- Some Suggested Writing Exercise Models -- A.1 To use in victim awareness work -- Discussion Suggestion 25 -- Exercise 73 Victim Awareness: Session One -- Exercise 74 Victim Awareness: Session Two -- Exercise 75 Victim Awareness: Session Three -- Discussion Suggestion 26 -- Discussion Suggestion 27 -- Exercise 76 Victim Awareness: Session Four -- Exercise 77 Victim Awareness: Session Five -- Discussion Suggestion 28 -- A.2 Working with someone who has a drug or alcohol problem -- Exercise 78 Animating the Abstract -- Exercise 79 Once it Did This to Me -- A.3 Working with someone who needs to address ; something in their past -- A.4 Working with someone who needs to address anger and aggression -- Exercise 80 Anger Storms In -- Exercise 81 Anger Storms Out -- Discussion Suggestion 29 -- A.5 Exploring Empathy in General -- Discussion Suggestion 30 -- Exercise 82 A Riot of My Own -- Further Reading -- A.1 Select Bibliography -- A.2 Further Reading -- A.3 Some Organizations and Periodicals -- Index -- The Geese Theatre Handbook -- Back cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: Behind the Lines is a book for anyone concerned about the level of literacy amongst prisoners