Art of Creative Writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the
bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic,
or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an
emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and
the use of literary tropes or with various traditions
of poetry and poetics. Both fictional and non-fictional
works fall into this category, including such forms
as novels, biographies, short stories, and poems.
What is creative writing ?
• Creative writing can technically be considered any writing of original composition.
In this sense, creative writing is a more contemporary and process-oriented name
for what has been traditionally called literature.Creative writing is writing that
involves the imagination & invention in form and content
• It means fiction, poetry and drama
Types of creative writing
• Expository writing
• Narrative writing
• Persuasive writing
• Descriptive
•Expository writing :- it is writing that seeks to explain, illuminate or
'expose' (which is where the word 'expository' comes from). This type of
writing can include essays, newspaper and magazine articles, instruction
manuals, textbooks, encyclopaedia articles and other forms of writing, so
long as they seek to explain. Expository writing differs from other forms
of writing, such as ction and poetry. In fact, this lesson itself is an
example of expository writing.
• Five of the most common types of expository writing are descriptive
essays, process essays, comparison essays, cause/effect essays and
problem/solution essays.
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Narrative writing:- It can be broadly de ned as story writing “ a piece of
writing characterised by a main character in a setting who encounters a
problem or engages in an interesting, signi cant or entertaining activity or
experience.”
•Non-linear Narrative.
•Quest Narrative.
•Viewpoint Narrative
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• Persuasive writing:- It intends to convince readers to believe in an idea or
opinion and to do an action. Many writings such as criticisms, reviews,
reaction papers, editorials, proposals, advertisements, and brochures use
different ways of persuasion to influence readers. Persuasive writing can also
be used in indoctrination.
• It is a form of non-fiction writing the writer uses to develop logical arguments,
making use of carefully chosen words and phrases. But, it's believed that
fiction writing should also be persuasive.
Descriptive writing :-The primary purpose of descriptive writing is to describe
a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's
mind.
• It is different form narrative writing because it does not tell a story, it discuss
ideas
How to generate an Idea?
Ideas come to us every day, many more than we could ever use. We dismiss most of them,
without making an effort to record them. This is unfortunate. We may dismiss an idea which
would change the world.
• Generate ten ideas every day.
The simplest, and yet the best way to generate great ideas is to generate lots of ideas. Out of
quantity comes quality.
• Draw your ideas to restructure them.
Try it ! Many creative people doodle, often without realising that they’re doing it. You can
doodle deliberately to generate fresh ideas from combinations of ideas.
• Break your patterns.
You’ve established patterns of behavior and thought over time. Deliberately start to change
those patterns.
What is a Story?
Story or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional
(memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend,
thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words,
still or moving images, or any combination of these. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare
(to tell), which is derived from the adjective gnarus (knowing or skilled). Along with argumentation,
description, and exposition, narration, broadly defined, is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse.
More narrowly defined, it is the fiction-writing mode in which the narrator communicates directly to
the reader. The school of literary criticism known as Russian formalism has applied methods used
to analyse narrative fiction to non-fictional texts such as political speeches.
Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek poiesis,
"making") is a form of literature that uses
aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of
language
such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and
metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in
place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning.
Drama
Drama is the speci c mode of ction represented in performance: a play,
opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.
Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been
contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c.
335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
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This is a classical example of three -act structure.
Conclusion
Creative writing is all about giving your ideas a perspective.
Creative writing is all about the imaginative use of language and overcoming writer's block.
