Creative Writing

Prepared by: Ms. Sherry Lene S. Gonzaga

Activity

List top 10 reasons why you

find writing not enjoyable or
enjoyable.
Core Purposes of Writing

1. To entertain – amuse or for you to enjoy writing

2. To inform – communicate ideas and information
to others
3. To persuade – use appeals of logic, emotion,
and character to prove a point
4. To express feelings – thoughts and feelings of
author
Other Purposes of Writing

1. Communicate with others

2. Record information
3. Enhance your oral development
4. Re-enforces your vocabulary
and language structure
Other Purposes of Writing

5. Present information, ideas, and

feelings
6. Demonstrate your creativity and
critical thinking
7. Inform, influence and entertain
Writing Process

A cycle of activities that you complete as you

generate ideas, compose those ideas into a
document or presentation, and refine those ideas.
Itis a recursive process, meaning that at any one
stage in the process, you may find that you have to
return to previous steps to review and refine your
methods.
Writing Process

1. Pre –writing
2. Drafting
3. Editing
4. Revising
5. Polishing
1. Pre Writing

Exploring subject
Narrowing your focus to specific topic
Gathering and organizing details
Free but limited by time and amount
of paper
2. Drafting

Creating the first version or draft

Beginning, middle, ending
Writing the first outline
3. Revising

You change what you need to

better satisfy your purpose and
audience
Content level changes
Getting rid of unnecessary details
4. Editing

Sentence level changes

Involves fine-turning words, sentences,
correctness, and design of piece
Grammar, mechanics, spelling
(mechanical errors)
5. Publishing

Self-publish or sell your book to

publisher
Differentiated Instruction
Create a lyrics of a song about the type
of writing assigned to your group.
Perform it through these following
genre:
- Ballad diva - Rap
- Pop Music - OPM
- Jingle
Differentiated Instruction
Content of the lyrics

- Content - Audience
- Purpose - Style
- Tone - Vocabulary
- Organization
Criteria
Artistry and Musicality 15%
Content 20%
Creativity 15%
TOTAL 50%
Creative Writing
Prepared by: Ms. Sherry Lene S. Gonzaga
Creative Writing Genres