Open AccessDrama and Writing: Complementary Meaning-making Processes
Author(s) -
Leonora Macy
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
language and literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1496-0974
DOI - 10.20360/g20w3k
Subject(s) - drama , focus (optics) , meaning (existential) , process (computing) , literacy , writing process , literature , art , sociology , history , psychology , computer science , pedagogy , physics , optics , psychotherapist , operating system
The majority of writing approaches used in classrooms today focuses on the systematic completion of writing tasks. This article provides a different focus as it explores the inner compulsion to write while in role. It outlines the commonalities that exist between the process of writing and process drama. In a process drama writers are liberated, particularly the reticent or reluctant writer, because they are launched into another place at another time as another person.