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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowley, Michael, 1959-

Contributor:

Ramsbotham, David, Sir

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing--Study and teaching--Great Britain.

Creative writing.

Criminals--Rehabilitation--Great Britain.

Criminals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages ) illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hook, Hampshire : Waterside Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Behind the Lines is a book for anyone concerned about the level of literacy amongst prisoners

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781908162649

1908162643

9781908162120

1908162120

OCLC:

843332358