Frequent areas of investigation and exploration:

Creative Writing:

* What do we know about creative writing?
* What don't we know and would like to find out?
* What issues of differentiation arise, in actions and results:
- culturally?
- historically?
- in the range and variety of actions and results?
- individually?
* What methods are there to make discoveries?

Creative Writing : a Creative and Critical Discipline
1. Creative writing as a research field - creative (practice-led) and critical;
2. Acts and actions, and the evidence or 'footprints' of creative writing - the condition and extent of these.

Evidence of Creative Writing - Examples 1
* writer or writers;
* acts and actions;
* personal and societal locations;
* craft instruments and objects;

Evidence of Creative Writing - Examples 2
* "Psychologies" of active human action and interaction;
* pre-working and pre-works, complementary working and complementary works, final works, post-working and post-works;
* "central" results and "attached" results;
* documents of human exchange.

Creative Writing Practice as Research:
1. Creative practice as a site of:
- knowledge
- knowledge exploration
- knowledge acquistion
2. Creative practice as having its own range of critical understandings;
3. Creative practice as mobile, fluid, unrestricted.

Creative Writing Practice as Research - Further Examples:
1. Dispositions, Intentions, Emotions that are involved in creative writing;
2. Meanings, Feelings, Reasons that contribute to creative writing;
3. Individual & Group Actions & Understandings;
4. Structures and Functions (eg. Cultural, Social, Economic, Political), and their impact on creative writing;
5. Personal and Social Environments;
6. Behaviours; physiological & psychological natures;
7. What is it that the actions and results are trying to achieve?

Creative Writing Research Today
* The importance of the human experiences and knowledge contained in the acts and actions of creative writing;
* Incredible growth, development and enthusiasm, worldwide!