How I quit writing: spontaneity and creative writing

My thesis consists of a collection of creative works and a critical component. My practice-based research explores spontaneity as a creative writing method as informed by the methods of Jack Kerouac described in his ‘Essentials of Spontaneous Prose’. In terms of content the collection is concerned with subcultures, and the spontaneity of individuals within them. The thesis develops my own poetics of spontaneity which provides an alternative to the literary mainstream. I extol the energy-charged writing it produces and describe the enjoyment and creative stimulation it brings to the author. I aim to demonstrate that spontaneity can provide equally good, if not better, results than heavily edited literature produced over long stretches of time. The title, How I quit writing, relates to the frustration I felt from creating in a way that would satisfy the requirements of a PhD that led me to a short lived decision to quit writing
This research consists of my own original work and has been ethically approved.