Writing a Creative Essay

PMHValencia
ENG C312
What is creative writing?
Is there a correct definition
anywhere?
Creative Essay Writing

• In creative essay writing, you need to get something

more than just a big interest in your topic
• It’s a style of essay that forces someone to look
past guidelines and set structures.
• In this scenario, your job is to create a story. Not
just any story, but one that has an interesting plot
as well as a compelling path!
Creative Essay Writing
Before putting yourself into work, you should pick
among creative writing essays topics such as:

• Explain an event in your life that spiraled out of control

and flipped its course.
• Create a scenario that directs the end of the world.
• Camouflage the concept of love in a story that is
completely irrelevant.
• Design in a story in which one person’s beliefs or ideas
helped reform the future of society.
Creative Essay Writing

• Propose a scenario in the distant future in which

technology controls all.
• Describe something that you can’t live without; it
might be your hobby or a thing that you are
dedicated to.
• Express your thoughts about a topic that hurts you.
• Imagine that you became invisible for one day, what
would you do?
• What would your reaction be if one day you woke up
in someone else’s body
Tips for Pre-Writing

• Do some research: Even if you have chosen a

subject that is second nature to you, it is always
important to investigate deeper into the topic. Every
time you start carefully studying an issue, you will
find more facts and key points. Use several sources
and mix them together.
Tips for Pre-Writing

• Plan out the essay (how, what, when, where,

who): These are five questions that must be
answered while typing out your story. Make sure
that a precise setting is introduced and keep your
audience tuned into the story. Boredom is your
worst enemy! * Formatting the story ahead of time
allows for a clear thought process as well as having
an excellent preview of what is to come.
Tips for Pre-Writing

• Record ideas (keep a Log): Outside of the time that

you are working on the story, it is a good idea to
keep a journal. Sometimes, out of the blue,
thoughts and ideas will come into your mind that
could improve the style of your essay. Even if it may
seem unfitting, writing them down at a constant
rate could mix two ideas that create something
exceptional!
Tips for Pre-Writing

• Write a rough draft: Try to focus on the flow of the

information and put some of your ideas on paper in
chronological order, don’t hurry, stay cool-headed and
from time to time reread what you have already written.

• Put everything in the right order: Read your rough

draft again, exclude all unnecessary information, lay
out your thoughts in chronological order, watch the
flow of your ideas, provide a smooth transition from
one idea to another, your essay shouldn’t be messy.
Tips for Title Writing

• First and foremost your title should be catchy, the

purpose of the title is to grab the reader’s attention
as soon as he had read the title.One way of doing it
is to use a “flashback” as the title of your creative
writing essay, and it will let your future readers
understand what kind of story you have written.
• The other one is summing up the story that you
have written in three words. If your essay is about
love, your title might be “Love, Hate, Despair: The
story of a broken heart.”
Tips for Title Writing

• Likewise, you may use any quote which relates to

your essay in general, but still, this quote should be
powerful enough to grab your reader’s attention.
• Also, your title may be the main idea of your essay,
for example, if your essay is about your hobby or
your biggest passion in life, then title may be “The
quintessence of my life“
Outline Writing

• The creative essay outline follows the standard

essay structure. It consists of an Introduction, a
Body, and a Conclusion.
• Each one plays a major role in plot development,
and the amount of variety that exists in the
formatting of this essay is quite large!
• However, the most effective and commonly used
procedure is the Oxford method which introduces
the 3-Point-Structure. This involves: The Set Up ->
Confrontation -> Resolution.
Outline Writing

• Set Up: Usually written in the intro, the set up

includes the establishment of the characters and
their relationships to each other. Who are friends
with who? What are the predetermined connections
between the members of the group? Allow the
readers to start inferring about plot development
with the information that you have laid out.
Outline Writing

• Confrontation: Written in the body, the story must

have a Turning Point. This is a point of conflict
where smooth sailing turns into a heavy storm. This
moment can be expected by clue-giving plot
development or can come out of nowhere. That
depends on what you as the writer decide to do.
Outline Writing

• Confrontation: For example, you can start hinting

that things feel eerie and off in the plot but then
straighten everything back to normal without
changing anything major. Or, the story could be
advancing smoothly, and all of a sudden,
something major happens, and the plot makes a
sharp turn.
Outline Writing

• Resolution: After passing the turning point, the

drama in the story will have sharpened and slowly
settled down. At some eventual point, the drama
will kick up back up again and will reach a peak
moment!

• Now, this can either be at the very end of the story

(cliffhanger), or this can be told somewhere in the
middle or beginning. Once again, this depends on
you as the writer.