CREATIVE WRITING COURSE #2 ASPECTS OF CREATIVE WRITING

Creative writing essentially consists of four aspects-

Content- content is an experience and experience is what we acquire from the life through one’s senses, by observing things that happen. No one can write in a vacuum. He who would have seen life around him in its various situations, happy and sad, harsh and poignant, and he who made mental notes of everything, can write efficiently. It feels to him to write a story with a certain event as its centre, with a particular set of characters and the right elements, which he had once accumulated in his mind and which have in the meanwhile undergone a strange transformation with him, will begin tumbling out of their own accord and take a new life on paper. When one starts writing a story, its element would somewhere resemble the real content. The writing will lack credibility and authenticity if it does not look like real. A well written content should give a reader the feeling that it is real, it should never make him say, oh, how could this happen! So it is necessary for a writer to keep his eyes and ears open and deeply observe the life not only he is living but also of others.

Form-

In creative writing form has two meanings literary form and structural form.

Literary form the content itself decides what form it should take. Whether a particular insight should come out as a strong or a novel or its nature and quality are such that nothing but a poem expresses it fully, is not generally decided consciously. It comes on its own with the idea of writing itself. There are so many writers who may feel dilemma to decide, taking all factors into consideration which form of choose.

Structure- For easy communication and easy comprehension, the guiding principal is the best structure of the content. To make the best structure, every writer should order his content-

How much of what should be in the content

And in what order it will work.

To use the best structure one’s logic common sense and experience of versatile reading will play a significant role.

No novel of more than 400 pages can be written with two characters and a short story cannot be managed with so many characters. There are so many model of literary tradition are available and so many great writer created variations in these model but the structure is the only item that makes the best content.

The structure of the content should be satisfying the whole content. As in single element of writing- first the world then the sentence, the Paragraph, the chapter and finally the book, is prepared. Top Books

Style- style is a form of expressing one’s thought and feelings in words. It is an experience of wide reading and awareness of words, sentences of the way a writer use to connect one sentence with another. For some people more than two adjectives is inappropriate to use but for some poet it is normal. Style is everyone’s personal thing. It defines the content and the writer.