The Writing Project: Recovering the Writing Self and Regaining Agency through Writing about Domestic Abuse

The Writing Project is a narrative like no other. A research memoir containing scholarship, social commentary and creative pieces, The Writing Project records the author's journey from complete creative writing block to an at-will writing practice. The author shares useful strategies for overcoming writing block, expanding knowledge of the creative writing process, while exploring the many benefits of writing as a personal practice. The author offers insights into the power of writing as agentic method, particularly for those exposed to the trauma of domestic abuse.