The Creative Writer

Previously entitled For Writers Only (publishing history):

First Edition: LukivPress (Quesnel, BC), 2000. [Distributed through the Quesnel Public Library].

Second Edition: LukivPress (Quesnel, BC), 2001. [Distributed through the Quesnel Public Library].

Third Edition: Published by Borders & Time (Saint John, NB), 2001.

Fourth Edition: LukivPress (Quesnel, BC), 2003. [Distributed through the Quesnel Public Library].

Fifth Edition: Published in An Introductory Creative Writing Program-Monograph Two (published by Academic Exchange Extra (Greeley, CO [University of Northern Colorado], 2009, [January]).

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Revised Edition (The Creative Writer): LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022.

An excerpt

Writer’s Block

I want to talk about writer’s block, but I can’t think of anything to say-kidding! Writer’s block is like constipation. But there usually is a cure. I’m sure you know the cure for constipation-jumping on a trampoline. Ha! As for writer’s block, however, consider what Lios Duncan says in How to Write and Sell your Personal Experiences: I have noticed in myself that writer’s block most frequently occurs after a time of emotional spending. When I first realised that I had found the man I was going to marry, I could not write. (1979, p. 196) The first thing to do when you find yourself a victim of writer’s block is to accept it for exactly what it is; not the end of the world, but a rejuvenation period. Let yourself rest. Be good to yourself. Call it a vacation. (p. 196)...

The author

Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada’s Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA’s Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England’s D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer’s Digest University (novel writing program).