ABSTRACT
‘Long is the road from conception to completion,’ declared Molière, the 17th-century French playwright and poet. Here now, an abstract of a text relating to text – the conceptional signpost to a material object (the text!). And material completion is no small thing – writing inscribes so that we can communicate beyond the moment, record in order to transfer an idea, an emotion, an observation to others when we are not there beside them. And creative writing texts declare interactions – certainly between writer and reader, writer and audience, but also between types of creative writing, genre, traits: the novel that is a comedy, the poem that tells history, the screenplay that delves into romance. And texts are alike and yet varied – variation is personalisation, the creative at work. Texts display similarities but also changes; therefore a shared history and a general meaning, but an individual identity and a personal interpretation too. Analyse this and we find not object but material representation of the transcendental, the embodiment of what a creative writer is doing or has done in creating that text.
