CREATIVE WRITING

CH.ARUNA

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

HINDU COLLEGE

GUNTUR

WHAT IS CREATIVE

WRITING?

• “the art of making things up”
• A vital part of modern society
• Traditionally termed as

literature

• Original and self- expressive.

PURPOSE OF CREATIVE WRITING

• To entertain
• To share human experience

TYPES OF CREATIVE WRITING

• Poetry
• Plays

• Movie and

television

scripts

• Fictions

(novels,

novellas, and

short stories)

• Songs
• Speeches
• Memoirs

• Personal

Essays

FORMS OF WRITING: EXPOSITORY

1. Expository
• Expository writing's main purpose is to explain.
• It is a subject-oriented writing style, in which authors focus on telling you about a given topic or subject without voicing their personal opinions.
• These types of essays or articles furnish you with relevant facts and figures but do not include their opinions.
• This is one of the most common types of writing.

FORMS OF WRITING: EXPOSITORY

Key Points:

• Usually explains something in a process.
• Is often equipped with facts and figures.
• Is usually in a logical order and sequence.

FORMS OF WRITING: EXPOSITORY

When You Would Use Expository Writing:

• Textbook writing.
• How-to articles.
• Recipes.
• News stories (not including opinion or editorial pieces).
• Business, technical, or scientific writing.

FORMS OF WRITING: DESCRIPTIVE

2. Descriptive
• Descriptive writing's main purpose is to describe
• It is a style of writing that focuses on describing a character, an event, or a place in great detail.
• It can be poetic when the author takes the time to be very specific in his or her descriptions.

FORMS OF WRITING: DESCRIPTIVE

Key Points:

• It is often poetic in nature
• It describes places, people, events, situations, or locations in a highly-detailed manner.
• The author visualizes what he or she sees, hears, tastes, smells, and feels.

FORMS OF WRITING: DESCRIPTIVE

When You Would Use Descriptive Writing:

• Poetry
• Journal or diary writing
• Nature writing
• Descriptive passages in fiction

FORMS OF WRITING: PERSUASIVE

3. Persuasive
• Persuasive writing's main purpose is to convince.
• Persuasive writing contains the opinions and biases of the author.
• To convince others to agree with the author's point of view, persuasive writing contains justifications and reasons.
• It is often used in letters of complaint, advertisements or commercials, affiliate marketing pitches, cover letters, and newspaper opinion and editorial pieces.

FORMS OF WRITING: PERSUASIVE

Key Points:

• Persuasive writing is equipped with reasons, arguments, and justifications.
• In persuasive writing, the author takes a stand and asks you to agree with his or her point of view.
• It often asks for readers to do something about the situation (this is called a call-to-action).

FORMS OF WRITING: PERSUASIVE

When You Would Use Persuasive Writing:

• Opinion and editorial newspaper pieces.
• Advertisements.
• Reviews (of books, music, movie, restaurants, etc.).
• Letter of recommendation.
• Letter of complaint.
• Cover letters

FORMS OF WRITING: NARRATIVE

4. Narrative
• Narrative writing's main purpose is to tell a story.
• The author will create different characters and tell you what happens to them (sometimes the author writes from the point of view of one of the characters—this is known as first person narration).

FORMS OF WRITING: NARRATIVE

• Novels, short stories, novellas, poetry, and biographies can all fall in the narrative writing style.
• Simply, narrative writing answers the question: “What happened then?”

FORMS OF WRITING: NARRATIVE

Key Points:

• A person tells a story or event.
• Has characters and dialogue.
• Has definite and logical beginnings, intervals, and endings.
• Often has situations like actions, motivational events, and disputes or conflicts with their eventual solutions.

FORMS OF WRITING:

NARRATIVE

Examples of When You Would Use Persuasive Writing:

• Novels
• Short stories
• Novellas
• Poetry
• Autobiographies or biographies
• Anecdotes
• Oral histories

WHAT IS SENSORY EXPERIENCE?

Writer ’s ability to make a memorable story by incorporating the use of the 5 senses.

Sensory details include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Writers employ the five to engage a reader's interest.

Readers can personally experience what the author is trying to describe, reminding them of their own experiences.

EXAMPLE: A TRIP TO THE GROCERY

STORE

• A passage without sensory details:

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“I went to the store and bought some flowers. Then I headed to the meat department. Later, I realized I forgot to buy bread.”

EXAMPLE: A TRIP TO THE GROCERY

STORE

• With additional sensory details:

“Upon entering the grocery

store, I headed directly for the flower department, where I spotted yellow tulips. As I tenderly rested the tulips in my rusty shopping cart, I caught a whiff of minty dried eucalyptus, so I added the fragrant forest green bouquet of eucalyptus to my cart. While heading for the meat department, I smelled the stench of seafood, which made my appetite disappear.”

LANGUAGE OF CREATIVE WRITING: IMAGERY

1. Imagery
• Language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader.

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• Includes to figurative and metaphorical language

improve the reader ’s experience through their senses.

IMAGERY USING VISUALS

“The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape.”

IMAGERY USING SCENTS

“She smelled the scent of sweet hibiscus wafting through the air, its tropical smell a reminder that she was on vacation in a beautiful place.”

(OLFACTORY)

IMAGERY USING TASTE

(GUSTATORY)

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“The candy melted in her mouth and swirls of bittersweet chocolate and slightly sweet but salty caramel blended together on her tongue.”

IMAGERY USING TOUCH (TACTILE)

“After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and

sweat cooled on his brow.”

IMAGERY USING SOUNDS

(AUDITORY)

“Silence was broken by the peal of piano keys as Shannon began practicing her concerto.”

IMPORTANCE OF IMAGERY

directly sympathize with they imagine having the

• It allows readers to characters and narrators as same sense experiences.

• Imagery is found throughout literature in poems, plays, stories, novels and other creative compositions.

LANGUAGE OF CREATIVE WRITING: FIGURES OF SPEECH

LANGUAGE OF CREATIVE WRITING: DICTION

DICTION

• as style of speaking or writing, determined by the choice of words by a speakeror a writer.
• Diction, or choice of words, often separates good writing from bad writing.

TYPES OF DICTION

Individuals vary their diction depending on different contexts and settings. Therefore, we come across various types of diction.

• Formal diction – formal words are used in formal situations, such as press conferences and presentations.
• Informal diction – uses informal words and conversation, such as writing or talking to friends.

• Colloquial diction – uses words common in everyday speech, which may be

different in different regions or communities.

• Slang diction – is the use of words that are newly coined, or even impolite.

FUNCTION OF DICTION

• In literature, writers choose words to create and convey a typical mood, tone, and atmosphere to their readers.
• A writer’s choice of words, and his selection of graphic words, not only affect the reader’s attitude, but also conveys the writer’s feelings toward the literary work.