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CREATIVE
WRITING
Introduction to Creative Writing

What is creative writing?
• Creative writing is any form of writing which is written
with the creativity of mind: fiction writing, poetry
writing, creative nonfiction writing and more. The
purpose is to express something, whether it be
feelings, thoughts, or emotions. In any subject,
concepts can only be understood by examples.
• Rather than simply giving information or inciting the
reader to make an action beneficial to the writer,
creative writing is written to entertain or educate
someone, to spread awareness about something or
someone, or to simply express one’s thoughts
http://www.writerstreasure.com/creative-wri
ting-101/
Two Kinds of Creative Writing:
Good and Bad.
• But there are Bad creative writing cannot make any
impression on the reader. You don’t want to do that, do
you? Of course not. So whether you’re a novelist, a poet,
a short-story writer, an essayist, a biographer or just an
aspiring beginner, you’ll want to perfect your craft. But
the question is: how?
• When you write great fiction, poetry, or nonfiction,
amazing things can happen. Readers can’t put it down.
The work you wrote becomes a bestseller. It becomes
famous. But you have to reach to that level… first.
• The best way to increase your proficiency in creative
writing is to write, write compulsively, but it doesn’t just
mean write whatever you want. There are certain things
you should know first… it helps to start with the right foot.
Elements
• Voice:
An author’s unique style and way of saying
things. You should be able to recognize an
author’s written voice the way you recognize a
person’s spoken voice. In creative writing, one
goal is to develop your written voice. Your
voice should come across as natural, clear,
and consistent, as unique to you as a
fingerprint. Wordiness, awkward use of
language, awkward sentence structure, and
lack of clarity all serve to muffle the voice of
the author.
• Characters:
The people or actors (e.g. animals,
inanimate objects, forces of nature) who
carry out the action of the story.
Character development is the art of
imagining and portraying characters in
enough detail that they seem real both
to the author and the audience.
• Point-of-view:
The narrator’s perspective on the
characters and occurrences in the
piece of writing. Whose voice is telling
the story? Most fiction is written in first
person, an eyewitness account, or in
third person, where the narrator
describes things that happened to other
people.
CREATIVE GENRES
• poetry of all kinds
• short stories
• novels, including westerns, romances,
science fiction, detective stories,
mysteries, fantasy, etc.
• stage play scripts
• film and television screenplays
• lyrics
• HOW DOES CREATIVE WRITING DIFFER?
Is creative writing different from other kinds of
writing? As stated before all writing involves
creativity since it is selective and is written from the
writer’s perspective. Like informative writing,
expositions (detailed statements or explanations)
or instructions, creative writing does convey
information, even when we define it so broadly;
indeed, information is the basic component of all
communication, no matter what kind.
http://www.acsedu.co.uk/Info/Writing/Creative-Writi
ng/What-is-Creative-Writing.aspx
The overall intent of
creative writing is not to
inform.
It is to stir the emotions, to

elicit an emotional
response.
• Good creative writing uses the same
kinds of writing that make for good
informative writing, or good
argument, or good exposition. It is
the writer’s skill at using these forms of
writing that can turn any piece of
writing into creative piece of writing.
• Even when we write fiction, we are dealing with reality
as we know it. Fictional does not mean false. It takes
our reality, or parts of it, and shows it to us in new ways.
It makes the familiar unfamiliar, and takes us into parts
of reality, making us take the time (because we read
much slower than we think or see) to see its
complexity, beauty and pain. Even fantasy fiction and
science fiction, which give us totally created worlds,
are based on elements of reality, and are therefore
recognizable and believable. Therefore, when we
write creatively, it doesn’t matter whether we are
writing fiction or non-fiction. What matters is that we
are sharing experiences and emotions with the reader
and, for a while at least, leading them towards a
particular point of view.
http://www.acsedu.co.uk/Info/Writing/Creative-
Writing/What-is-Creative-Writing.aspx
Informative writing is primarily about
imparting knowledge.
Creative writing is primarily about

creating emotional effect and
significance.
THANK YOU!
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PRESENTATION BY:
JEAN C. PETATE
BSE- IIC

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