Creative Writing

Defining Creative Writing

   You might have heard it called different things. Traditionally referred to as literature, creative writing is an art of sorts - the art of making things up. It's writing done in a way that is not academic or technical but still attracts an audience. Though the definition is rather loose, creative writing can for the most part be considered any writing that is original and self-expressive. A news article, for example, cannot be considered creative writing because its main goal is to present facts and not to express the feelings of the writer. While a news article can be entertaining, its main purpose is to present the facts.

   The purpose of creative writing is to both entertain and share human experience, like love or loss. Writers attempt to get at a truth about humanity through poetics and storytelling. If you'd like to try your hand at creative writing, just keep in mind that whether you are trying to express a feeling or a thought, the first step is to use your imagination.
Types of creative writing include:
-Poetry
-Plays
-Movie and television scripts
-Fiction (novels, novellas, and short stories).
As you can see, some nonfiction types of writing can also be considered creative writing. Memoirs and personal essays, for example, can be written creatively to inform your readers about your life in an expressive way. Because these types are written in first person, it's easier for them to be creative.
Techniques used in creative writing include:
-Character development

-Plot development

-Vivid setting

-Underlying theme
-Point of view
-Dialogue

                Different Types Of Writing

   Writing is a way to express human emotions, knowledge. Every writer has his/her own style of writing, which reflects his personality. However, each piece of writing requires different style and tone which can decide on the basis of the content of the writing. No matter what you write it is very important for you to stay focused on your purpose of writing. There are mainly four categories in which all types of writing fall, which are narrative writing, Descriptive writing, expository writing, and persuasive writing.
In addition to the four main categories, there are few more categories such as creative writing, review writing, subjective writing and objective writing. Each writing type has a different purpose and requires a different writing skill. Many a time, writers use multiple types of writing to write a single paragraph. It requires skills to use these types of writing to convey your message efficiently.

1. Narrative writing

The purpose of narrative writing is to tell a story just like a storyteller but in written form. The story could be a fictional story or a real story. Narrative writing is considered one of the most difficult styles of writing to write and one of the easiest styles for reading.  Because it requires a lot of skills to write a story in such a way that it takes the reader in the world of the story. Writing stories need great imagination and writing skills to convey it to the reader.
In narrative writing, the writer develops a lot of fictional character and tell what happened to them in the form of a story. Mostly, stories are narrated from the point of view of one character, which is called first-person narration. All novels, poetry, short stories, biographies, and autobiographies fall under this category. A whole narrative writing is an answer to the simple and small question “what happened then?”. Narrative writing always has a person who tells a story or an event from his / her point of view. It has characters who carry the story. It has a dialogue.

2.      Expository writing

This type of writing style is commonly found in textbooks. This type of writing is used to explain things, people, place, relationship or an idea. Expository writing is used to provide information about various things, therefore, it is sometimes also referred to as information writing. In this type of writing, the author provides factual information about a certain subject rather than voicing his / her own opinion.
This type of writing is built on facts, statics, reasons, laws and principle, cause, effects, and examples. As this information written in this type of writing is factual, therefore, it is written without emotions and from the point of view of a third person. Self-reference can be used in expository writing but to give an external description and explanation and not to explain
personal feelings and opinions. Expository writing is sometimes confused with descriptive writing because both types of writing are used to describe things. However, both types of writings are quite different from each other. An expository writing style is used to explain and describe external things, situations and processes whereas descriptive writing is used to explain the point of view of someone about the world or a subject or a thing at a particular time.

3.      Persuasive writin

The main purpose of this type of writing is to persuade its audience about something. It includes opinion and a personal point of view of the author.  The author should have known about the other side of the topic so that he can present the strongest information to counter it. He/she should be able to develop a well-defined and debatable topic.
Sometimes the author writes about the other side of the opposing point and refute them and give a strong explanation for why he/she does it. Even though persuasive writing includes a personal opinion of the author, it is still written objectively. Persuasive writing usually uses emotional appeal to win the heart and confidence of readers. Persuasive writing contains reasons, arguments, and justifications.

4.      Descriptive writing

Descriptive writing is describing things such as characters, places, events etc. in details. It is like painting a picture in the minds of readers. Descriptive writing is an art of shoeing something through words. A writer describes everything with respect to all senses. Through words, he tells you how it looks like, feels like, smells like and sounds like. Descriptive writing does the job of connecting the outer world with the inner world.
A writer uses various adjectives and adverbs to make the picture vivid for the reader. Descriptive writing usually written with the point of view of the first person and the context of the writing is emotional and personal. Haruki Murakami, a Japanese writer is famous for his descriptive writing. His books like Kafka on the shore and Norwegian woods are the best samples of his descriptive writing.

5.Objective writing

This type of writing includes writing something which you can support with facts and shreds of evidence. The information provided should be well research and correct statistically and scientifically. An author should remain neutral and unbiased and let the readers make their own opinion. Objective writing is a formal way of writing. Therefore, rather than writing “men and girls” write ‘men and women”.
This type of writing is “to the point of writing”, therefore, a writer should not intensify anything by using words like always, very, never etc. It is right to say that objective writing is fact driven.

6.      Subjective writing

This type of writing is opinion driven writing. An author writes his own feelings, opinions, beliefs, and perspectives. The author does not bother about the correctness of the material. Subjective writing is originated from authors own experiences and observations. Subjective approach is important because it gives the reader an insight into the author’s thinking process. This type of writing gives freedom to the reader to imagine things from their own unique perspective.

7.Creative writing

Creative writing is an art of making things up. This type of writing is far different from professional writing. Writing fiction, non-fiction, horror, crime, biographies, screenwriting, scriptwriting, short stories, and playwriting all fall under this category. Basically, any writing which origin from the imagination of one person is called creative writing
There are plenty of jobs available in the market which requires creative writing. Other than that, many people are running successful websites, blogs, YouTube channel because of their creative writing. Creative writing has become the need of the hour these days. Many people are taking classes to improve their creative writing skills.

8. Review writing

Reviewing things has become a trend these days. People review everything like restaurants, food, cosmetic products, books, movies, and even mobile phones and laptops. Tech savvy people read the review of things online before making any purchase. Therefore, it has become so important that many companies pay people to review their products. Review writing is art.