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Creative writing and exercises for offenders and those at risk. Ideal for people who work with or support offenders and those at risk.

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Publié par	Waterside Press
Date de parution	22 mai 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781908162649
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Behind the Lines
Creative Writing with Offenders and People at Risk
Michael Crowley
With a Foreword by David Ramsbotham
Copyright and Publication Details
Behind the Lines
Creative Writing with Offenders and People at Risk
Michael Crowley
ISBN 978-1-904380-78-8 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-908162-12-0 (Adobe e-book)
ISBN 978-1-908162-64-9 (Epub e-book)
Copyright © 2012 This work is the copyright of Michael Crowley. All intellectual property and associated rights are hereby asserted and reserved by the author in full compliance with UK, European and international law. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, including in hard copy or via the internet, without the prior written permission of the publishers to whom all such rights have been assigned worldwide. Unless otherwise indicated the images in this book are the copyright of the author.
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Contents
Copyright and Publication Details
Also 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
Discussion Suggestion 2
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
Discussion Suggestion 5
Exercise 17: Victim Statement
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: Interpretations
Exercise 25: Take a Photograph of an Individual
Discussion Suggestion 7 and Exercise Development
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 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
Exercise 55: What’s My Motivation?
Discussion Suggestion 19
5.4 A Word about Dialogue
Exercise 56: Lend Me Your Ear
Exercise 57: Lend Me Your Voice
The Listener
Exercise 58: Behind the Lines (Dialogue)
Exercise 59: The Mattress
Discussion Suggestion 20
Exercise 60: The Telephone Conversation
Discussion Suggestion 21
5.5 A Word about Monologue
Exercise 61: Who Wasn’t There?
Exercise 62: Aftermath
5.6 About Improvisation and Performance
Exercise 63: As You Like It
Discussion Suggestion 22
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
Exercise 71: I Read the News Today
6.2 Personal and Public Events
Exercise 72: Influences
Discussion Suggestion 24 Action into Words
Appendix 1: 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
A.3 Working with someone who needs to address something in their past
Exercise 78: Animating the Abstract
Exercise 79: Once it Did This to Me
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
Appendix 2: Further Reading
A.1 Select Bibliography
A.2 Further Reading
A.3 Some Organizations and Periodicals
Index
Waterside Press: Putting justice into words
Available from Prolebooks
Also by the same author:

The Man They Couldn’t Hang
A Tale of Murder, Mystery and Celebrity

A play in two Acts with an Introduction by the author.
The story of John ‘Babbacombe’ Lee is one of the most bizarre in English criminal history. Lee is the only person to have been reprieved by a Home Secretary after standing on a gallows trap which failed to open. This happened at Exeter Prison in 1885 when the notoriously inept public hangman James Berry gave up after three failed attempts. Lee spent 22 years in prison before being released.
“This work would undoubtedly provide a wealth of meaty material for any drama workshop worth its name, whether inside or outside of the prison wall. I hope to have the opportunity to see it performed some time, if only to have a good laugh at a good (or rather bad) hanging” Prison Service Journal
Paperback ISBN 978-1-904380-64-1 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-906534-97-4 | 140 pages | Sept 2010
The Author
Michael Crowley is a youth justice worker and writer. His stage plays include ‘Beyond Omarska’, ‘The Man They Couldn’t Hang’ (Waterside Press 2010) ‘A Warning Against Idle Gossip’ and ‘The Cell’ (24/7 Theatre Festival Manchester 2012). ‘Close to Home’, a collection of poetry, is published by Prolebooks this year.
He has written for youth theatre and been writer in residence at a young offender institution for the past five years. He lives in West Yorkshire. See also www.michaelcrowley.co.uk
Author of the Foreword
Lord David Ramsbotham GCB, CBE was a British Army general before serving as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons from 1995 to 2001. During that time he became well-known for his attempts to improve prison conditions, encourage rehabilitation strategies and his preparedness to challenge the authorities. In 2005 he was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Ramsbotham of Kensington and continues to be associated with such matters from the cross-benches.
Acknowledgements
This book includes writing by people I have worked with both inside and outside of jails.
Written permission has been granted in all cases to use the examples, names and other details have been altered or omitted to ensure confidentiality and safeguard victims. Neither have I mentioned any of the prisons nor youth offending teams I have worked for by name, though I must say that I am indebted to the management and officers at the young offender institution where I have worked for the last five years. They have made my work and this book possible.
I would like to thank by name though, the Writers in Prison Network which has run over 130 residencies si