The Art of ‘Creatical Writing’ : Unlocking Insights Through Creative-Critical Fusion

Mikkilä, E. (2024) The Art of ‘Creatical Writing’ : Unlocking Insights Through Creative-Critical Fusion. Life Writing, 21 (3). pp. 535-548. ISSN 1448-4528

Abstract

In this article I introduce a new mode of writing within the creative-critical paradigm termed ‘creatical’. This practice involves merging creative and critical discourses to generate embodied, theoretical, metatexual, poetological and plurilingual insights. I explore each of these five modes of enquiry against the backdrop of an illustrative anecdote recounting linguistic discoveries that I made while walking in a foreign-language urban setting.