Comments on: What is Creative Writing?

By: Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:23:46 +0000

Yes, it’s hard to think of the dry writing (business, manuals, contracts) as creative. I do believe there are exceptions, but they are few and far between.

By: Clara Freeman

Clara Freeman — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:17:06 +0000

Anything that doesn’t make me ‘want’ to read it, is in my mind, non creative as in business manuals, contracts,academic materials, etc. But, written stuff that contains a story line, causes me to reflect, chuckle and ‘want’ to read more of the same would be the creative side of writing for me. Most times, I don’t think about the difference, I just naturally ‘feel’ it:)

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By: Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:15:36 +0000

I agree with you – we can bring creativity into just about anything we do (including any type of writing) but some forms of art require a little more creativity than others

By: Danielle Ingram

Danielle Ingram — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:21:31 +0000

Really interesting question, the differentiation between what is creative writing and what is not is extremely subjective.

In some ways I think that all writing is somewhat creative as it has emerged from the mind and the writer has had to think about what they are going to produce and how they are going to do it.

I can appreciate that novels and poems are more likely to be considered creative and perhaps even more worthy to be described as such.