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CREATIVE
WRITING
prepared by; Sir Peter

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 h a t is
W • "The art of making things up"
• It's writing done in a way that is not

a t i ve academic or technical but still attracts

re
C iting
an audience.
• Considered any writing that is original

w r and self-expressive.
 The Purpose of Creative Writing
• To both entertain and share human experience, like love or loss.

• Writers attempt to get at a truth about humanity through poetics and storytelling.

• If you'd like to try your hand at creative writing, just keep in mind that whether
you are trying to express a feeling or a thought, the first step is to use your
imagination.
Types of creative writing include:

• POETRY • SONGS
• PLAYS • SPEECHES
• MOVIES AND TELEVISION • MEMOIRS
SCRIPTS • PERSONAL ESSAYS
• FICTION (NOVELS,
NOVELLAS, AND SHORT
STORIES)
Types of creative writing include:

• As you can see, some nonfiction types of writing can also be considered
creative writing.

• Memoirs and personal essays, for example, can be written creatively to

inform your readers about your life in an expressive way.

• Because these types are written in first person, it's easier for them to be
creative.
Techniques used in creative writing include:

• Character development • Metaphors and similes

• Plot development
• Vivid setting
• Underlying theme Point of
view Dialogue
• Anecdotes
• Figures of speech
• Imaginative language
• Emotional appeal
• Heavy description
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF WRITINGS

CREATIVE WRITING VS TEACHNICAL, & ACADEMIC WRITING.

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 TECHNICAL
• Factual o Informative
• instructional persuasive
• Clear, precise and straightforward
• Objective
• Specialized vocabulary
CREATIVE
• Fictional and imaginative
• Entertaining, provocative
• and captivating
• Artistic, figurative, symbolic or even
vague
• Subjective
• Generalized vocabulary
Imaginative Writing vs. Academic
Writing
• Creative writing is different to academic writing. Writing for websites is different
to writing for newspaper columns.
• Journal entries are different to writing press releases on behalf of a brand.
Writing purposes do vary. It's important that when undertaking any writing you
have a firm grasp on this concept.
Fundamental differences between academic and creative
writing.

• Style is the chief difference between academic and creative writing.

• Creative writing need not adhere to any specific style parameters. Academic writing is
different.
• Academic writing needs to be structured and executed adhering to a series of
guidelines.
• Indeed, so stringent are these guidelines that academic institutions include these
guidelines as part of their curriculum.
IMAGERY
Objectives:

RECOGNIZE THE
USE IMAGERY
IDENTIFY RELATIONSHIP OF
DEFINE IN WRITING
THE TYPES IMAGERY AND
WHAT IS FIGURATIVE TEXTS.
OF IMAGERY;
IMAGERY; LANGUAGE
 Describe These

Sense of touch Sense of taste Sense of smell Sense of sight Sense of hearing Sense of
sight
• a language used by poets, novelists
and other writers to create images in
the mind of the reader. Imagery
includes figurative and descriptive
language to improve the reader’s
experience through their senses.
 Imagery
• Though imagery contains the word "image," it does not only refer to descriptive
language that appeals to the sense of sight. Imagery includes language that appeals to all
of the human senses, including sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell.
 Types of Imagery
There are five main types of imagery, each related to one of
the human senses:

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 Visual imagery

Describes what we see: comic book images, paintings, or images directly experienced through
the narrator’s eyes. Visual imagery may include:
• Color, such as: burnt red, bright orange, dull yellow, verdant green, and Robin’s egg blue.
• Shapes, such as: square, circular, tubular, rectangular, and conical. What’s New What is It
• Size, such as: miniscule, tiny, small, medium-sized, large, and gigantic.
• Pattern, such as: polka-dotted, striped, zig-zagged, jagged, and straight.
 Auditory imagery

Describes what we hear, from music to noise to pure silence. Auditory imagery may
include:
• Enjoyable sounds, such as: beautiful music, birdsong, and the voices of a
chorus.
• Noises, such as: the bang of a gun, the sound of a broom moving across the
floor, and the sound of broken glass shattering on the hard floor.
• The lack of noise, describing a peaceful calm or eerie silence.
 Olfactory imagery

Describes what we smell. Olfactory imagery may include:

• Fragrances, such as perfumes, enticing food and drink, and
blooming flowers.
• Odors, such as rotting trash, body odors, or a stinky wet dog
 Gustatory imagery

Describes what we taste. Gustatory imagery can include:

• Sweetness, such as candies, cookies, and desserts.
• Sourness, bitterness, and tartness, such as lemons and limes.
• Saltiness, such as pretzels, French fries, and pepperoni.
• Spiciness, such as salsas and curries.
• Savoriness, such as a steak dinner or thick soup.
 Tactile imagery

Describes what we feel or touch. Tactile imagery includes:

• Temperature, such as bitter cold, humidity, mildness, and stifling heat.
• Texture, such as rough, ragged, seamless, and smooth.
• Touch, such as hand-holding, one’s in the grass, or the feeling of starched fabric
on one’s skin.
• Movement, such as burning muscles from exertion, swimming in cold water, or
kicking a soccer ball.
Imagery can be Literal or Figurative

• When we speak of figurative language, it is a language that creates a

meaning different from its literal meaning. Types of figurative language
are simile, metaphor, etc. Imagery can use figurative language or it can
be totally literal.
Imagery can be Literal or Figurative

• Take the lines from Robert Frost's "After-Apple Picking:

“I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.”
 Imagery can be Literal or Figurative

These lines contain powerful imagery: you can feel the swaying ladder, see
the bending boughs, and hear the rumbling of the apples going into the
cellar bin. But it is also completely literal: every word means exactly what it
typically means. So this imagery involves no figurative language at all.
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LITERATURE
Imagery is found throughout literature in
poems, plays, stories, novels, and other
creative compositions. Here are a few
examples of imagery in literature:

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"his brown skin hung in strips

Like ancient wallpaper,
And its pattern of darker color
Was like wallpaper:
Shapes like full-blown roses
Stained and lost through age."

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This excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish” is brimming with
visual imagery. It beautifies and complicates the image of a fish that has
just been caught.

You can imagine the fish with tattered, dark brown skin “like ancient
wallpaper” covered in barnacles, lime deposits, and sea lice. In just a few
lines, Bishop mentions many colors including brown, rose, white, and
green.

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“A taste for the miniature was one aspect of an orderly spirit. Another was a
passion for secrets: in a prized varnished cabinet, a secret drawer was opened by
pushing against the grain of a cleverly turned dovetail joint, and here she kept a
diary locked by a clasp, and a notebook written in a code of her own invention.
… An old tin petty cash box was hidden under a removable floorboard beneath
her bed.”

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In this excerpt from Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement, we can almost feel
the cabinet and its varnished texture or the joint that is specifically in a
dovetail shape.

We can also imagine the clasp detailing on the diary and the tin cash box
that’s hidden under a floorboard. Various items are described in-depth, so
much so that the reader can easily visualize them.

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