How to write creatively Creating and Presenting (AoS#2: The Imaginative Landscape)

Ideas: Use some of the big ideas

contained in the central text in the
creative piece. Internal landscapes
manifest in the form of art.
Writing style: Adopt a similar writing
style to the author. Kristel Thornel uses
personification of the landscape to help
convey the profound connection that
Clarice experiences witht the seascape.
Themes: Incoprporate themes in the
creative piece that reflect the themes of
the central text. Eg. family, creativity,
solitude,
Chronology: 'Night Street' shifts in
chronological order which serves to
highlight that the past informs Clarice's
present.
Constructions: 'Night Stree' is broken
into four parts whicih have distinctly
differnt foci.
Character construction: Clarice Beckett
feels the strongest sense of connection
with the landscape rather than people.
Her relationships are fundamentally
weak because she is more attached to
her environment and inspired by her
environemnt.
Inspiration for the text: Kristel Thornell
was inspired by Clarice Beckett's
artwork. "Its like studying something
alluringly half-visible through a gauze
curtain. An oddly intimate, dreamy
mood ensnares you....I wanted to
inhabit the mind of a woman like
Beckett, to creatively follow some of the
teasing leads suggested by those
captivating paintings".
Character experiences: Clarice's
ultimate demise is a result of "giving
oneself honourably to art". Her illness
(pnemonia) is a manifestation of her
decision to immerse herself in the
landscape.

Explicit

Implicit

Aim to establish multiple parallels between your narrative/text and the central text. There are two ways to achieve
this, create implicit or explicit parallels. Implicit parallels will result in more unique creative pieces and offer more
complex ways of addressing the central text. Explicit references rely heavily on the central text.

Use a character: Clarice, Herb, Ada,

Louise, Miss Macfarlane, Max Meldrum,
Doctor, Arthur etc.
Re-write a passage: write the passage
from a different perspective, introduce
the backstory for another character.
Alternative ending: write the ending of
the novel with a different outcome.
Introduce a new scene: describe Clarice
Beckett painting a different piece.
Critique of the novel: discuss the
events of the novel in the form of a
hybrid persuasive/creative.
Journal/ diary entry: Write a diar or
journal entru from Clarice Beckett's
perspective.

Some possible narrative and creative ideas:

A critique of Clarice Becketts artwork.

A writer inspired by the art of another
artist and their journey into the
mindset of that creator.
Gallery setting with the works of
Clarice Beckett; include an audio
dialogue that would accompany an
exhibition.
A character who has a stronger
relationship with the landscape than
people, an artist, a non-conformist,
someone who enjoys solitude.
1920s Melbourne setting with the
same social and cultural expectations
for women.
Adopt the same writing style as Kristel
Thornell, personifying the landscape
including the serpentine sea and
write from the third person narrative
perspective.