Abstract
The fourth exercise of the workbook is presented. The reader is asked to “Write in a Voice Opposite to Their Own.” The paradox of writing in an ‘opposite voice’ is discussed and research data in relation to this exercise is presented indicating that all participants ended up writing in their usual style of writing in retrospect. A case study of a participant’s writing fantasy who wrote differently than his usual style and seemed to articulate discomfort in relation to some of the exercises in the sequence is explored. Guidelines are provided to the reader at the end in order to help them compare their text to this exercise with the previous one and to examine patterns that can further examine their own writing fantasy.
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Z15: so darkness, and dark keep coming up in most of your answers I am thinking do you think they relate to the way that you might see the world and the messages that you want to convey in your stories your writing?
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E86: and I think because we had all these questions I just had to start I kind of I I I had to probably turn off turn down the logical side of my brain just to cause I I I did sort I’ll I’ll try and answer as many of these questions in the writing but that probably means that any narrative is gonna to go out of the window so that is why I am not even gonna bother trying it so that’s kind of why that happened …
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Evans, D. (1996). An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. London and New York: Routledge.
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Charalambous, Z. (2019). Whose Is This Voice?. In: Writing Fantasy and the Identity of the Writer. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20263-7_8
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