WRITING IN PRACTICE VOL 10

ABSTRACT

My PhD thesis, Writing Through (2022), was envisaged as a critical and creative inquiry into the process of writing through grief. My intention was to write through rather than simply about the loss of my father in 2015 and to then explore the structure of this writing, yielding insights for other practitioners. The four-year process of research resulted in the production of a creative component over three parts – an original television screenplay, a work of nonfiction and a bridging piece of prose in various ways drawing on a personal experience of grief – alongside a contextual component: ‘The Structure of Writing Through.’ This component is abridged and its opening part, on ‘Handling Grief as a Creative Methodology’, introduced and established here.

KEYWORDS

autobiography, autoethnography, autofiction, counselling, creative, critical, death, fiction, grief, loss, memoir, nonfiction, practice, process, prose, script, structure, television, therapy, writing  

HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE

Bower, Gavin James (2024) The Structure of Writing Through: Handling Grief as a Creative Methodology, Writing in Practice. 10. 41-51. DOI: 10.62959/WIP-10-2024-04