Creative Writing and the Experiences of Others

Nandita Dinesh is Dean of Academic Administration at Mount Tamalpais College and serves incarcerated students inside San Quentin State Prison.

Contents

Introduction - Setting The Stage

Section One: Examine

Scene One: The Trials, Int. A Room

Scene Two: Int. A Cafe

Examine: Allegories & Abstractions

Scene Three: To Camera

Scene Four: Int. A Classroom

Examine: Autoethnography

Scene Five: Ext. A Street

Scene Six: Int. A Car

Examine: Lacks of Understanding

Scene Seven: Int. A Room

Scene Eight: Int. A Cafe

Examine: Visual Aesthetics

Scene Nine: Int. A Room

Scene Ten: Ext. The Porch of a Building

Examine: Banalities

Scene Eleven: Int. A Room

Scene Twelve: To Camera

Examine: Choices

Scene Thirteen: The Classroom

Scene Fourteen: To Camera

Scene Fifteen: Int. A Classroom

Scene Sixteen: Int. And Ext. Split Screen

Scene Seventeen: To Camera

Examine: Unresolved Endings

Section Two: Explore

Part One: Explore Allegories & Abstractions

Text One

Text Two

Text Three

Part Two: Explore Autoethnography

Text Four

Text Five

Text Six

Part Three: Explore Lacks of Understanding

Text Seven

Text Eight

Text Nine

Part Four: Explore Visual Aesthetics

Text Ten

Text Eleven

Text Twelve

Part Five: Explore Banalities

Text Thirteen

Text Fourteen

Text Fifteen

Part Six: Explore Choices

Text Sixteen

Text Seventeen

Text Eighteen

Part Seven: Explore Unresolved Endings

Text Nineteen

Text Twenty

Text Twenty-One

Section Three: Experiment

Experiment #1

Experiment #2

Experiment #3

Conclusion - One Last Thing

Index