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by: Melody Joy Austria
HOW TO WRITE A
CREATIVE WRITING
What is “creative writing”?
Ok.
So nobody knows how to define it.Or there’s no final definition.Then how do we learn it?How does it get taught?
How is it distinguished from any other kind of writing and so what’s it’s place in the schools at any level?
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CREATIVE WRITING
- the branch of English Studies that involves teaching and learning how to write creatively.
- refers to any writing of original composition that most popularly understood to be writing that comes from the imagination.
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• Isn’t all writing “creative”? Why call it Creative Writing?
• Can it really be taught? Isn’t it about talent and a mysterious ability to summon the muse?
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• Isn’t all language creative, really? Why even have a distinct field called Creative Writing? Can’t business reports, department memos, shopping lists, Facebook status updates, even check-writing all be “creative”?
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HOW TO GET STARTED IN
CREATED WRITING
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• KNOW THE GENRE AND SUBGENRE IN CREATIVE
WRITING
1.FICTION
2. NON-FICTION
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• KNOW THE FORMS OF CREATIVE WRITING
• POETRY (TULA)
• SHORT STORY (MAIKLING KWENTO)
• ESSAY (SANAYSAY)
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• CHOOSE YOUR GENRE
This is sometimes easy work, and sometimes hard work.
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• START WRITINGIt doesn’t matter whether you write once a day
or a week or a month or anything else. Your writing should not be set on a schedule in which you can’t match your other work.
Bottom line is: just write and you’re started in creative writing!
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How creative can you be
If flowers could talk, what should they say?
You have two minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following.
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How creative can you be
Imagine what God would eat for breakfast and dinner.
You have two minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following.
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How creative can you be
How would a rainbow feel if you could touch it?
You have two minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following.
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How creative can you be
If your shoes could talk, what would they say to you?
You have two minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following.
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How creative can you be
You step off a bus in the year 2035. Describe what you see.
You have two minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following.
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How creative can you be
If rain was a person, what sort of person would it be?
You have two minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following.
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How creative can you be
What does happiness feel like?
You have two minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following.
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How creative can you be
You look out of the window and see
this.What is it?
Where are you?
You have two minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following.
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How creative can you be
You go out walking one night and see this scene. Describe how you feel.
You have two minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following.
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How creative can you be
Where have these feet been today?
You have two minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following.
GOODLUCK !
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