How To Write Creative (1)

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How To Write Creative?
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Key Elements to Write Creative

• 1. Images
• It is through images that an author appeals to
  our five senses sight, sound, smell, taste, and
  touch. It is important for creative writing to
  appeal via images. By telling the reader what you
  or your character saw, heard, smelled, tasted,
  and touched, you will make sure the readers feel
  as though they are there with you.
• Images help you create a world your reader can
  enter and immerse himself in. Readers need to
  experience emotion through images. They do not
  just want to be told how a character feels or
  acts. As an author, one should avoid abstract
  words. One should stay away from generalizations
  and vague references.
• Instead, the onus should be to use concrete
  details that describe something that can be seen,
  heard, smelled, tasted, or touched. Details
  should be focused and specific. Significant
  details are specific and also elucidates an
  abstraction, generalization, or judgment.

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2. Voice

• The language that comes naturally to you is your
  distinct voice, and theres no need to tinker
  with it. Yet can try to be flexible and expand
  your vocabulary and range of style though. Your
  writing voice is unique to you just the way your
  speaking voice is singular to you. Your
  arrangement of words, word choice, imagery, and
  rhythm are all unique to you and will be familiar
  to others over time.
• I- spoken directly from you or a characters
  direct point of view. It is generally used in
  non-fiction personal essay types of writing. The
  first-person narrative allows an author to
  express a deep understanding of that character
  since you are inside their thoughts.
• You- The second-person point of view directly
  addresses the reader and puts the reader into the
  story/narrative. Its not used very often and is
  used for more for a special effect.
• She/He- It is spoken by a narrator about a
  character. The third person is the most common
  mode for fiction/short story writing. This voice
  has a large range, from total objectivity to
  great intimacy.

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3. Character

• The most important part of creating a character
  is knowing and showing what that character has in
  mind. Characters need not be passive observers-
  they must want, and importantly they must act.
  What is your characters deepest urge? What cant
  she/he live without? Know what makes your
  character worried, smile, upset, embarrassed,
  exciting? As an author, you can lead your reader
  into knowing your character through minute
  details as it happens in real life.
• You can bring a character to the reader through
  image, voice, action, thought, and telling the
  reader directly. You should use concrete,
  significant details to the maximum. How does
  he/she walk? What does he/she wear? How What
  does he/she eat and drink? What is the style of
  his/her hair?
• The quickest and best way to know someone is for
  that person to make an important decision.
  Authors also reveal what their central character
  has in mind. In the moments between discovering,
  contemplating, and deciding characters reveal
  aspects of themselves.

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4. Setting

• Setting often expedites the wish to write. It
  reflects a writers relationship to place and
  time and creates a particular place and period
  that is necessary to imaginative writing. The
  setting is an integral part of the story and not
  merely scenery. The setting informs the reader
  about legacy and customs, identity, and
  exclusion. The writers style of detailing
  directs our understanding and experience of the
  setting. Readers cannot internalize a story
  unless it is set within a particular place and
  time.
• Setting means everything that supports and
  affects your characters. It is the props that
  create and sustain a characters identity. Like
  image and voice, a place needs to be created by
  selecting concrete details. The reader should
  sense the setting fairly early on in a piece of
  writing. You can think of it as a camera, that
  gives the reader a wide and increasingly narrower
  view of the scene. You begin with a wide angle
  and move closer.
• Setting creates the mood of the story. The mood
  will have some elements of time and weather-rainy
  or dry, shadowy or light, winter or spring,
  peaceful or stormy. All of these details can
  frame the mood for unique action and meaning to
  emerge.

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5. Story

• Stories are about journeys- the amalgamation of
  the new and unfamiliar. When cultures,
  generations, genders, neighborhoods intersect
  with each other, conflict occurs in many
  different ways. Conflict is the foundation of a
  story. When it emerges, characters experience
  connection and disconnection. Characters
  transform. By the end of a story, you expect your
  character to have gone through a change. Thus the
  change occurs because the character confronts a
  challenge their beliefs are shaken and tested.
  By the end of an important story, readers have
  their empathy enlarged.
• Also, there is another way to look at a story.
  Here it is seen through conflict, crisis, and
  resolution which means a beginning, middle, and
  end. The plot requires action, conflict, trouble.
  Plots also involve the protagonist and
  antagonist. These two opposing forces of the
  protagonist and antagonist keep us glued to the
  reading. The momentum shifts back and forth
  throughout the story, leaving us wondering what
  will happen next.

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How To be a Creative writer?

• The incumbent needs to keep these crucial
  elements in mind throughout all of his Creative
  Writing endeavours. Be it Images, Voice,
  Character, Setting, or Story all of them should
  be inter-woven effectively to create a story with
  an impact. It is a rigorous process but totally
  worth the effort. If an author is introduced
  early on to how to write creative fundamentals
  and these basic story elements, he can be shaped
  into an effective storyteller.

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