Creative

Writing
What is Writing?
▪ "Writing" is the process of using
symbols (letters of the alphabet,
punctuation and spaces) to
communicate thoughts and ideas in a
readable form.
▪ The activity or skill of marking coherent
words on paper and composing text. 
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What
•
is Writing?
Writing is a medium of human communication
that represents language and emotion through the
inscription or recording of signs and symbols
•"Writing" can also refer to the work/career of an
author

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Creativity
-is a phenomenon whereby something
new and somehow valuable is formed. 

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CREATIVE WRITING
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•Creative Writing  is any writing
that is original, artistic, and self- expressive.

- The purpose is to entertain and share human

experiences, and it does so by expressing
plays, and personal essays.

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“It’s not creative
unless it sells.” –
David Ogilvy, an
advertising guru

“Creativity is the
WHOLE you” –
Jeannie Kim

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Creative or Imaginative
Writing
- Is any writing that is in contrast to
analytic or pragmatic forms of
literature like professional,
journalistic, academic, medical,
scientific, business, or technical
writing.
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Creative Writing Genre:
• SHORT STORY
FICTIO • NOVEL
N • NOVELLA
• (JOKE)
• SONGS
POETRY• RIDDLES
• PROVERBS
• SCREENPLAYS
• TELEPLAYS
PLAYS
• STAGE PLAYS
• RADIO PLAYS
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 TECHNICAL CREATIVE WRITING
WRITING
Factual, straight Imaginative,
CONTENT
forward metaphoric or symbolic
AUDIENCE Specific General
Inform, instruct, Entertain, provoke,
PURPOSE
persuade captivate
Formal, standard, Informal, artistic,
STYLE
academic figurative
TONE Objective Subjective
VOCABULARY Specialized General, evocative
ORGANIZATION Sequential, systematic Arbitrary, artistic

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Technical vs. Creative
Writing
Creative Writing
Technical Writing Creative writing's purpose is to both
entertain as well as educate. The
When it comes to technical majority of us enjoy reading interesting
writing, the sole purpose of it is to stories and novels, not necessarily
inform a reader and sometimes because they're helpful to use but
trigger them into taking action because we get a certain feeling of
pleasure from reading them and this is
which would be beneficial towards the type of pleasure that you can not
the writer. get from reading technical writing.

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What have I learned So Far?
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 It’s your turn!
1. What is Creative Writing?
2. Differentiate creative writing from
technical/journalistic writing.
3. Name the three (3) genres of creative
writing and explain each.
4. Name at least three (3) examples of
noncreative or technical writing.
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