What is Writing?
- Writing is a
medium of human
communication that
involves the
representation of a
language with
symbols.
What is 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.
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“ Love is being able to “ The depth of the sky’s
understand someone fully. It’s blue is as our love, that
just warmth, and a feeling of
being completely safe and also
only over the years we
completely vulnerable at the notice the strength of the
same time. Being in love is hue. Up close it is as clear
finding someone that’s just an as pure water, yet when
extension of yourself, and being we see the miles it is the
able to be yourself, and being blue of fairy tale dreams.”
able to be yourself with them.”
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“ These feelings I have for you
“ Feelings are like can’t end until my body ceases
temperatures. Attraction is to function and my soul is
warm, Curiosity is warmer, released for whatever comes
Anger is boiling. Hate can after. I hope that somehow, they
are embedded into my soul, that
torch, but it can also freeze.
our love will endure. Even on my
Love… well, that’s a dark days my love for you rides
temperature best left under underneath it all, keeping my
neutral.” mind from sinking into the mire
that claimed me in the past.”
GENRES OF CREATIVE WRITING
poetry
Includes writing
meant to be
heard out loud
as well as read
on the page.
Examples of poetry
• It may be
structured (haikus
and sonnets),
• unstructured (free
verse),
• or even appear to
read as a narrative
(prose poems)
Fiction
Includes all
works conceived
primarily out of
the writer’s
imagination.
Examples of Fiction
Novel
Short story
Novella
DRAMA
The genre of drama can
include both the fictitious
and the fact. In a drama,
the story is primarily
conveyed through
dialogue between
characters.
Examples of DRama
Movie scripts
Ten-minute plays
Screenplays
Written stage productions
CrEATIVE NON-FICTION
Writers of creative non-
fiction develop stories
based on true life events
but often infuse their own
personal views and
experiences in their work .
Examples of creative non-fiction
Personal essays
Book reviews
Memoirs
Interviews
Cultural criticism
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