![]() The novelist Robert Holdstock died in November 2009 aged 61, leaving behind a series of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mystery novels (the latter under the pseudonym Ken Blake). ![]() Keywords: Creative Process Robert Holdstock The Fantastic Liminality Woodland. As a novelist, scholar of folklore and folk tales, and professional storyteller it is something I am familiar with and fascinated by, and it dove-tails with my current Creative Writing PhD at the University of Leicester: a dramatization of the creative process in novel form, and so this is a reflection on my ongoing investigation into creative writing research through practice. I will argue that Holdstock’s Mythago Wood Cycle offers a powerfully resonant metaphor for the creative process: how stories are created and written (informed by the oral tradition), and how we, as readers and listeners, interact with them. ![]() In this article I would like to discuss Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood Cycle – Mythago Wood (1984) Lavondyss (1988) The Bone Forest (1991) The Hollowing (1993) Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory (1998) and Avilion (2009) – in the context of creative writing praxis. ![]()
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