CREATIVE
WRITING
Prepared by:
Raemann Zaira M. Fernandez
Department of Languages and Literature
College of Arts and Sciences
Central Mindanao University
LESSON 1: CREATIVE WRITING
What is
creative
writing?
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LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the learners
should be able to:
Define creative writing
Explain the nature and purpose of creative writing
Identify the forms of creative writing
Describe the benefits of creative writing
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Creative Writing
“The ability to create”
“Imaginative”
“Productive and imaginative”
“Characterized by expressiveness
and originality”
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Creative Writing
Creative writing or imaginative writing is the
art of creating and recreating
things, feelings, array of emotions, and
thoughts through words. It is a form of
writing that goes beyond the rules of
professional or technical writing, and it bears
the purpose of entertainment, sharing human
experiences, and educating the
readers.
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Creative writing is often defined as the
writing of fiction, where the author
creates events, scenes and characters,
sometimes even a world.
In reality, aside from instinctive utterances
like the yelp of an injured child or
a delighted ‘Oh!’ all expressions
are creative.
According to Mills (2006), in creative writing:
Writers build up worlds, make them
real, emphasize and illuminate them
through images. Through voices they
hold our attention, remind us o the
varying tones of speech. Through
stories told and heard they show the
way our thoughts are shaped by
narrative, how we shape the thoughts
and lives of others and ourselves
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Nature and
Purpose of
Creative
Writing
The major purpose of
creative writing is to express
one's thoughts, feelings, and
emotions.
The main objective of creative writing is to
share a person's anecdote and make it
entertaining like loss or love. Writers get the
opportunity to learn about the reality of
humanity through storytelling and poetics.
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Nature and
Purpose of
Creative
Writing
Moreover, it is a tool in producing
master pieces in literature that can be
in a form of poems, short stories,
novels, dramas, memoirs, television and
movie script and others.
With this, literature may be classified
as prose and poetry according to
form, or fiction and non-fiction
according to structure.
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Nature and
Purpose of
Creative
Writing
For the purposes of this course,
‘creative writing’ is any writing that
expresses events and emotions in an
imaginative manner and whose
primary intent is to arouse emotions.
The overall intent of creative writing is
not to inform. It is to stir the
emotions, to elicit an emotional response.
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1
FICTION
It is a narrative that springs from the imagination of the
writer, though it may be based on actual events and real people.
2 CREATIVE NON FICTION
It is prose writing about real people, places, and events.
Ex. Biographies, memoirs and essays.
3 POETRY
It is a language arranged in lines. It attempts to re-create
emotions and experiences.
4 DRAMA
It is a writing that develops plot and character through dialogue
and action. In other words, drama is literature in play form.
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Forms of
Creative
Writing
Benefits of
Creative Writing
Self expression is the primary benefit
of creative writing.
It is a great way to express what
you feel as it frees one's mind and
comforts the soul. It is an effective
platform to express one's self, one's
thoughts and feelings.
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THOUSANDS OF JOB
1
Benefits of
Creative
2 CREATIVE FREEDOM
Writing
Profession as a creative writer is a decent way to earn a living..
CW is an excellent career choice for those who
desire to start a career in writing.
It can get you access to various types of jobs online..
3 NO TELECOMMUTING
You become your own boss. CW is flexible because you
decide when to work.
4 INSPIRING
Writing provides an opportunity to create inspired life experiences,
and helps people go through difficult moments in life.
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Thank you
for listening!
The End of Lesson 1
Prepared by:
Raemann Zaira M. Fernandez
Department of Languages and Literature
College of Arts and Sciences
Central Mindanao University
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