CWR
MODULE
1
INTRODUCTION TO
CREATIVE WRITING
LESSON OBJECTIVES: TO SHARE PERSONAL
ATTITUDES AND VALUES TOWARDS WRITING
Creative Writing vs. Technical Writing
Pleasure/Benefits of a Writer
Sources of Passion for Writing
Attitudes/Values Required Among
Writers
Working Habits
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards For
Literature
Nobel Prize
Pulitzer Prize
WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THE
PICTURE?
DEFINITION
WHAT IS CREATIVE WRITING?
This is a form of writing that
goes beyond the traditional
realms of ordinary, professional,
academic or technical forms of
writing.
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TECHNICAL
CREATIVE
WRITING
WRITING
Technical writing is based on facts
and concepts.
General writing is based on
imaginations and creativity.
Technical writing focuses on factual and
straight forward content.
Creative writing focuses on imaginative
and symbolic content.
Technical writing has its specific
reader/audience.
Creative writing has general
reader/audience.
The purpose of technical writing is to
inform and instruct and educate the user.
The purpose of creative writing is to
entertain, provoke, inspire.
It follows formal and standard style of
writing.
It follows informal and artistic style of
writing.
It gives readers information about some
technical topics or it gives directions on
how to do something.
It gives readers a theme, message, moral or
lesson which is helpful in their real lives or
gives a temporary entertainment to the
reader.
WORDS OF WISDOM:
THE
BEST
DISCOVER
YOU
IS
WAY
THE
TO
WRITER
NATURALLY
WRITE.
IN
TO
PLEASURE/
BENEFITS OF
A WRITER
•Readership
•Popularity
•Relaxation
•Self-Expression
•Royalty
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SOURCES OF
PASSION FOR
WRITING
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Writing Icon/Coach
Written Work
Training
Awards
ATTITUDES/VALUES
REQUIRED AMONG
WRITERS
Love for reading
Love for explorations and
adventures
Curiosity
Patience
Humility
Honesty
Creativity in diction,
presentation
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Keeping a journal
WORKING HABITS
Constant practicing
Effortless reading
Setting the mood
Avoiding writer’s block
Postponing perfection
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•Royalty is the money the publisher
pays to writers of books.
•Royalty
is
multiplying
usually
the
retail
calculated
price
by
by
the
royalty percentage.
•Some writers determine the royalty
regardless of retail price.
•Royalty may also be computed using
wholesale
discounted.
price
which
can
be
NOTES
ON
AUTHOR
ROYALTY
AUTHOR'S
AWARDS/MERITS
CARLOS PALANCA MEMORIAL AWARDS
FOR LITERATURE
NOBEL PRIZE
PULITZER PRIZE
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•With page number requirements of 5
pages
to
25
pages
depending
on
CARLOS
PALANCA
category except Nobela
•With theme for essay writing contest
•Prize:
PhP8,000
to
PhP40,000
depending on category
•PhP5,000
for
the
school
of
the
Kabataan Essay category winner
•Kabataan Award of Distinction for 4time winners
•A Glimpse at International Fame
MEMORIAL
AWARDS
FOR
LITERATURE
Bucal, John Vincent J.
Muwang ng Musmos
First prize
2017
CPMAL AWARDEE
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Criteria of Nobel Prize
•Conservative idealism: ideal direction
and lofty and sound idealism
•Neutrality
•Wide-hearted humanity
•Universal interest/benefit
•Attention to unknown writers
•International horizon
NOBEL
PRIZE
The US poet has won ‘for her unmistakable poetic voice that with
austere beauty makes individual existence universal.’
NOBEL PRIZE AWARDEE
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•No specified criteria
•Can be won more than once
•Categories:
Journalism
Drama and Music
and
Letters,
PULITZER
PRIZE
A majestic, polyphonic novel about a community’s efforts to halt the
proposed displacement and elimination of several Native American
tribes in the 1950s, rendered with dexterity and imagination.
PULITZER PRIZE AWARDEE
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LET'S WRAP-UP!
Differentiate Creative Writing vs.
Technical Writing
Give at least one of the characteristics on:
Pleasure/Benefits of a Writer
Sources of Passion for Writing
Attitudes/Values Required Among Writers
Working Habits
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards For
Literature
Nobel Prize
Pulitzer Prize
Instructions:
Author Interview
Choose an award-winning author and assign the roles
of author and interviewer. Prepare a brief introduction
for your author and conduct research on at least five
questions
about
your
chosen
winning
author.
Make
sure you know the answers to the questions. You will
perform on April 19, 2022.
Rubric
Author Interview
Content of the interview
The interview contains many coherent details and/or descriptions that contribute
20
to the audience satisfaction. The author has really used his/her intellectual.
Impression on author
The answer of the author is very well organized. One idea or scene follows
20
another in a logical sequence with clear transitions.
Mechanics
10
The answer contains no errors in grammar, usage, or mechanics.
Total of
50
Do you have any questions?
REFERENCE:
Santillan, J. (2018). Everyday Creative Writing. Chicago,
Illinois NTC Contemporary Publication Group, Inc.