@article{intel:/content/journals/10.1386/fict.3.1.5_1, author = "Mort, Graham", title = "Leverets", journal= "Short Fiction in Theory & Practice", year = "2013", volume = "3", number = "1", pages = "5-23", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1386/fict.3.1.5_1", url = "https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/fict.3.1.5_1", publisher = "Intellect", issn = "2043-071X", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "the bokeh in creative writing", keywords = "creative writing research", keywords = "short fiction", keywords = "narrative affect", keywords = "writing and consciousness", keywords = "creative writing", abstract = "Abstract By submitting an original short story and an essay exploring its genesis, antecedents and composition, this article explores the creative process in the context of the demands being made upon creative writers to position their writing as research within the UK higher education academy. Whilst pointing to the rigidity of current research models it also indicates the intense subjectivities at play in the reading and realization of fictional forms, discussing both process and affect in doing so.", }