Part One: Introduction Chapter 1: What Is This Book? Chapter 2: What Is Reflection in Creative Writing? Chapter 3: What Is Influence in Creative Writing? Part Two: Reflective Commentaries Chapter 4: Case Study 1: The Personal Is Always Political, by Karen Stevens (on short stories) Chapter 5: Case Study 2: Education, Education, Education, by Joanna Nadin (on children's writing) Chapter 6: Case Study 3: On the Genealogy of Memoirs: Influence, Revenge and Ressentiment, by Jonathan Taylor (on memoir) Chapter 7: Case Study 4: Pick Up the Pieces, by David Swann (on novellas) Chapter 8: Case Study 5: The End is Never Where You Think: How Preclosure Theory Turned Finally into a Collection of Short Fiction Obsessed with Ending, by Dan Powell (on short stories) Chapter 9: Case Study 6: Influence, Imagination and Authenticity, by Jemma Kennedy (on scriptwriting) Chapter 10: Case Study 7: by Shaindel Beers (on poetry) Chapter 11. Case Study 8: Life in Miniature, by Kit de Waal (on flash fiction) Chapter 12. Case Study 9: Alternate Truths and Fake News, by Anietie Isong (on the novel) Chapter 13: Case Study 10: by Jenn Ashworth (on creative non-fiction) Chapter 14: Case Study 11: Experimental Poetic Autography: Writing the Languaged Self, by Lila Matsumoto (on experimental poetry) Chapter 15. Case Study 12: From Print to Digital and Back Again, by Kate Pullinger (on digital writing) Part Three Chapter 16. Conclusion Bibliography Index.