What is Creative Writing

An informative yet imaginative style of writing, creative writing is often considered as the form of art. Honestly, it is far beyond the boundary of normal professional writing, academic writing, content and technical writing and other genres of writing. This inventive yet powerful form of writing is by and large uses of figurative literary languages - word, phrase etc. It’s simply entertaining, original, self-expressive, present facts and loved by the audience at the same time.

Today, creative writing is divided into various forms viz: Poetry, Fiction writing, Playwriting, Songs writing, Movie Scripts/ Screenwriting, Essay writing much more. Among all, below are the top most famous forms of creative writing. Poetry One of the most famous genres of literally work or an art form, poetry is derived from an ancient Greek word “poiesis” means making. It is a form of literature, which generally expresses emotions, ideas, thoughts, feelings etc by using an artistic and rhythmical quality of language.

This genre of literature is known for use of imagination, similes, metaphor with rhetorical language and much more. It likewise has various forms like Free Verse, Rhyming Couplets, Epic, Sonnet, Haiku, Limerick etc, where the pattern or the form of writing entirely depends upon the poet. Fiction Writing Fiction writing is generally written in prose text, which means written in a spoken language without metrical structure. It is a work of fiction or a non-factual writing where the author describes or expresses its point of view in an entertainment mode.

On the other hand, we all read novels, we also enjoy short stories, dramas etc. Simply, all of it falls under the fictional writing. It is just that, different authors prefer or practice different fictional writing style like a writer who is inclined towards writing novel, moves toward becoming a novelist, who favor short story turn out to be a short story writer, a writer who is inclined towards drama, progresses towards becoming dramatists and much more. Playwriting One of the finest creative writing style, also the most liked genre of literature, Play writing’s first ever manual was written by Aristotle- the world-renowned ancient Greek philosopher in the 4th century BCE. Extremely rich in terms of history, the basic 6 elements of playwriting are Theme or Ideas, Plot, Character, Language, Music, and Spectacles. Playwriting or Drama is also divided into various categories including, tragedy, melodrama, comedy and tragicomedy.

The greatest playwrights of all times are William Shakespeare, Sophocles, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, Euripides and much more. Screenwriting One of the most famous creative forms of writing, screenwriting is basically writing script for films and other related mass media productions. Thus, screenwriting is also known as the script writing. Screenplay writer will craft the story, compose the screenplay in an exciting and inventive way and convey it with an idea or a message. Remember, anyone with great imagination and creativity can become a professional screenplay writer as it needs no education. Simply, it is completely relies upon the ability and the power of your vision.

Thus, the world renowned English writer, Virginia Woolf once said, “ Every secret of writer’s soul, every experiences of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works”.