Creative Writing

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What is creative writing?

What is the definition of a short story?

What are the elements of a short story?

Write your own story

What is creative writing?

"Creative writing is an expressive form of literature; one which demands you to use your own creativity, imagination and story to portray a particular message, emotion, or plot. It defies the traditional bounds of other forms of writing and is completely subjective to our own preferences and experiences."

Examples creative writing

Poetry
Song Lyrics
Plays and Screenplays
Personal essays
Short Fiction
Novels
Creative Nonfiction
Comics, graphic novels
Video Games 
Humor

Poem

“I wake up to the sounds

Of the silence that allows

For my mind to run around

With my ear up to the ground

I’m searching to behold

The stories that are told

When my back is to the world

That was smiling when I turned

Tell you you’re the greatest

But once you turn they hate us….” 

Flash fiction

To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do. He would stand upon the corner of an intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of sidewalk in four directions, deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference; he was alone in this world of A.D. 2053, or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.

Comic

Choose a theme and write a 5 sentence story. You cannot repeat a word.

Write a two-sentence answer to the following questions...

You are lost in the desert with nothing to eat but sand and tumbleweed. How do you feel?

What would your dream birthday cake taste like?

You are on the New York subway. What do you see?

Have a look at this picture. What would it feel/smell/look like?

Definition short story

tells about a single event

fictional

500-15,000 words

beginning, middle and end

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Elements of a short story:

setting

characterization

plot

theme

point of view

Ideas

Write about someone with a dangerous secret

Write a scene set at your favorite restaurant

Write a story about someone who wakes up with no memories, except for a single name

Write a story from the perspective of someone who isn’t human

Complete the sentence: “It was a completely normal Saturday except for…”

Creative writing