Name : Herlin Firman Putri

Class : B Afternoon

NIM : 321910067

Subject : Creative Writing

Lecturer : Ageung Darajat, M.Pd

1. Please, explain about creative writing.

Creative writing is writing that expresses ideas and thought in an imaginative way. The
writers express their feelings and emotions instead of just presenting the fact. Therefore, it is
not just solid writing skills that should required to be a great creative writer, but also the
ability to use your life experiences, feelings, emotions, thoughts, opinions, imagination, and
spirituality to create real some features that share as creative genre: poetry, short stories,
novels (including westerns, romances, science fiction, detective stories, mysteries, fantasies,
etc), stage play script, films and television screen play, and lyric. Other genres that are not
include to this type: magazine article, newspaper feature stories, essays, biographies,
advertisements, card greetings, books or article on science history visuals and attractive
stories for the readers.
2. Please, mention and explain about the elements of creative writing.
 Voice: An author’s unique style and way of saying things. You should be able to
recognize an author’s written voice the way you recognize a person’s spoken voice.
In creative writing, one goal is to develop your written voice. Your voice should
come across as natural, clear, and consistent, as unique to you as a fingerprint
 Characters: The people or actors (e.g. animals, inanimate objects, forces of nature)
who carry out the action of the story. Character development is the art of imagining
and portraying characters in enough detail that they seem real both to the author and
the audience.
 Point-of-view: The narrator’s perspective on the characters and occurrences in the
piece of writing.
  Theme is the underlying meaning of the story, a universal truth, a significant
statement the story is making about society, human nature, or the human condition.
 Style is the language used in a book, the way the words are put together to create the
story.
 Tone is the author's attitude toward what he or she writes, but it may be easier to
understand if you think of it as the attitude that you (the reader) get from the author's
words.
 Setting includes the place and the time period in which the story takes place.
 Plot is the sequence of events which involves the characters in conflict.
3. Please, explain about the component of mystery story.
Characters
The characters are the individuals that the story is about. The author should introduce the
characters in the story with enough information that the reader can visualize each person.
This is achieved by providing detailed descriptions of a character’s physical attributes and
personality traits.
Setting
The setting is the location of the action. An author should describe the environment or
surroundings of the mystery in such detail that the reader feels that he or she can picture the
scene. Unusual settings (such as a fantasy world) can be interesting, but everyday settings
can help a reader to better visualize the story. It can be especially fun to use a familiar
setting for a mystery so that the reader feels even more connected to the plot.
Plot
The plot is the actual story around which the entire book is based. A plot should have a very
clear beginning, middle and end—with all the necessary descriptions and suspense—so that
the reader can make sense of the action and follow along from start to finish.
Problem
Every mystery has a problem to solve, usually who committed a crime and why. Authors
should fill mystery stories with clues, so that the reader can try to solve the puzzle along
with the characters. Sometimes, an author may insert a false clue just to throw the character
(and reader) off.
 Solution
The solution to the problem is the way the action is resolved—finding a missing item or the
person who stole it, for example. It is important that the solution be believable. Authors must
be sure to include all the clues necessary for finding the solution in the story somewhere
4. Do you like writing story? Why?
I like a little. Because sometimes I have ideas but are lazy to write and compose sentences,
but when I'm not lazy I like to write, especially poetry.