A Further Look into Creative Writing

Creative writing is written to entertain and educate. We enjoy reading novels and stories, not because
they are necessary to read or helpful for us, just because we get a certain pleasure from reading them,
the pleasure which can’t be got from reading technical writing.

Creative writing has so many genres and sub-genres that they deserve a whole section of an article for
themselves. It sometimes follows a given set of rules, and sometimes throws caution to the winds and
breaks all of them. Either way, talent is somewhat of a necessary ingredient if you want to write
creatively. Of course, writing can be improved by practice. But if you don’t have the necessary talent,
your writing would not give pleasure to anyone.

Skills and talent both make up creative writing. Hence, they are its constituents.

Further reading: An Introduction to Creative Writing

A Further Look into Technical Writing

Technical writing is wholly written to inform and sometimes to trigger the person reading into making
an action beneficial to the one of the writer. Whoa, what a mouthful. That’s not a subject I’m going to
cover here (copywriting), but if you want to know more about it, you can visit the master of its game,
Copyblogger.com.

I already gave the examples of technical writing in the first post of the series. If you look at them with
the context of copywriting, they make much more sense. Copywriters are some of the highest paid
writers, says Copyblogger. Sales letters, pitches, advertisements, etc constitute copywriting.

Technical writing is not written to entertain. It has its own set of rules, conventions, do’s and don’ts,
masterpieces and pieces of rubbish. There is a whole art to mastering technical writing, although it too is
branched: online technical writing and offline technical writing. Personally, I think that if you want to
master technical writing, you should first master concise and magnetic writing that draws the reader in,
regardless of whether it’s creative or technical.
Are you a master or a learner of concise writing? If you are, so am I, and I’m going to cover it here in
future posts. Creative leads or hooks contribute to it.

So that’s it for creative writing. The differences between creative writing and technical writing are that
creative writing is written mainly to entertain with the creativity of the mind and technical writing is
written mainly to inform in a formal manner or to incite the reader to make an action such as purchase
the writer’s product.