Wiktionary
n. Art of writing texts such as novel, short story and poems which fall outside the bounds of professional, journalistic, academic and technical discourse.
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Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics. Due to the looseness of the definition, it is possible for writing such as feature stories to be considered creative writing, even though they fall under journalism, because the content of features is specifically focused on narrative and character development. Both fictional and non-fictional works fall into this category, including such forms as novels, biographies, short stories, and poems. In the academic setting, creative writing is typically separated into fiction and poetry classes, with a focus on writing in an original style, as opposed to imitating pre-existing genres such as crime or horror. Writing for the screen and stage— screenwriting and playwrighting—are often taught separately, but fit under the creative writing category as well.
Creative writing can technically be considered any writing of original composition. In this sense, creative writing is a more contemporary and process-oriented name for what has been traditionally called literature, including the variety of its genres. In her work, Foundations of Creativity, Mary Lee Marksberry references Paul Witty and Lou LaBrant’s Teaching the People's Language to define creative writing. Marksberry notes:
Usage examples of "creative writing".
There are many graduates of high school and college courses in creative writing who have been taught how to write lovely paragraphs, but who have never learned how to construct a story.
Fit for better things than trying to teach creative writing to adolescents and fomenting sedition in your spare time to keep from being bored to death.
But the oasis was a mirage, he had learned as the creative writing professor discussed and dismembered James's fiction to the other students, some of whom sought to jab their own barbed remarks.
I had tried and true material, you know, I'd change it some, talk about the news of the day a little and then go into some fairly standard material about creative writing or something.
He pointed at the creative writing Honors files, which were sitting beside the typewriter with a red rubber band around them.
It's a creative writing thing, and& I just can't work on it and be around you, you know?
Then Enderby sighed, got up, and went out to seek his Creative Writing class.
Dougherty's creative writing class meets on Tuesdays and Fridays in what used to be a teachers' lounge.