Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Creative Writing, your need

What is Creative writing?

Creative writing is supposed to be any writing which can be fiction, nonfiction, journalistic, academic and literature. The work we can find in many forms such as novels, epics, short stories, plays/dramas, autobiography/memoir and poems etc.

The important thing with writing is to be creative and it is not the product of plagiarism. In this context we can say that creative writing is writing of the original mind of creater and is more contemporary and process oriented name for literature.

Key Steps, getting your self started with Creative writing.

Step 1: Be kind to yourself, start small.

Step 2: Create on regular basis.

Step 3. Experiment. Play. Enjoy.

Steps defined.

Step 1: Be kind to yourself, start small.

It happens to many of us that we feel very uncomfortable taking initiative of starting anything. Usually we waste lot of time this way and left alone with blank piece of paper and bulk of ideas in our mind.

What we need to overcome this problem is pick small project first. It can be any thing like; a poem, an article, dialogs or any thing else.

Step 2: Create on regular basis.

As any this you want to accomplish and/or achieve you need to make it habit for you. This will help reach your true potential.

You should give regular time each day to create. You can start with minimum of 15 minutes and gradually increase it. I make you assure, you definitely will find huge difference to your creative output.

Step 3. Experiment. Play. Enjoy.

As you already have taken the step, now is your time. Enjoy exploring new ideas, new characters, new ways of expressing yourself and you creative mind.

Once you have taken the step, your learning starts; which ways you write most effectively, which criteria of writing you most enjoy and what you would like to experiment next time.

Have the attitude created that creative writing is an enjoyable experience, it makes huge difference in quality of writing you produce.

Tip 1: If you get bored of one type of writing, you do not need to give up, just switch to a different type of writing and tried a pattern you have never tried before.

Tip 2: Writing more and more and writing the different ways, richer will be your skill of creative writing.

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