WRITING IN PRACTICE VOL 11

ABSTRACT
My project is to develop a module for MA creative writing students to support our programmes of workshops through an interdisciplinary analysis of the way writers and artists negotiate creativity. Ultimately, I aim to offer the same module to business students at the same level, partly so that commissioners and creatives can be brought together in the same room, and partly because I believe the analysis and discussion of creativity as a negotiable, socially contingent medium would be useful to both groups of students. This essay explores how the concept of negotiating creativity links the study of literature, culture and economics through a practice-based enquiry.

After an introduction, discussing the conceptual context of artistic creative negotiations, I consider three case studies from the formative period of the UK’s creative economy: Christopher Marlowe, Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe’s negotiations with creativity. 

In the final section, I demonstrate how there is a need for this kind of analysis through reflections on teaching negotiating creativity in the classroom. I illustrate how this approach enhances students’ understanding of their own creative processes and their confidence to produce new work. 

KEYWORDS

Creative writing, Interdisciplinary, Interdisciplinarity, Negotiating creativity, Teaching, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Literature, Markets, Creative industries, Production, Practice.

HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE
Anthony, Dan. (2025) Negotiating Creativity: 1592-1731 and today. Writing in Practice. 11  DOI: 10.62959/WIP-11-2025-11