Creative Writing Introduction

Creative writing is possibly both the easiest and hardest to define as a subject of discussion because it ranges so widely in styles. They range from speeches, curriculum development, and even to what most of us may relate to creative writing, storytelling. Creative writing is used to convey a thought or even create a new universe. It is used to pass on information in a manner easiest to ingest for the reader or listener. The truth of the matter is that creative writing is such a broad topic as you can see, that to define it can be hard. If you search on the internet to find anything using just the topic of creative writing you will find lists of different types of creative writing. Such as: 

Poetry.

Plays.

Movie and television scripts.

Fiction (novels, novellas, and short stories)

Songs.

Speeches.

Memoirs.

Personal essays.

If you simply look at this prior list you will discover that it is not so easy to talk about all of those topics at once, so we will just define the topic of creative writing as “when an author uses a narrative to create an image or relay a thought to the reader or viewer through the chosen media.” This is done through the use of various ways to convey the thought. They may use a mix of the four versions which are exposition, descriptive, persuasive, and narrative. This is used to build the thought, tale, or world.The combination and use of the four becomes the author's narrative voice. This is the perspective of the person telling the tale. The author needs to apply the proper narrative voice and combination of the four listed earlier in order to tell the reader what they want them to know at that point in the story. This can be a fine balance to make sure that the author is giving the right details to set the scene for example, but not spending all day describing the hat that the character is wearing. Too much description can detract from the story, but not enough and the reader will be lost.

Well, we will have to explore more of these concepts in later videos. Until then Be Your Own Fable and I will see you next time.