The Writing Process
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Joe Moxley and Riley H. Welcker
What is Creative Writing?
Creative Writing tends to be expressive, imaginative, and literary. Readers of creative writing texts seek pleasure, entertainment, and insight into human struggles and behavior. A rather loosely defined genre, there are many forms of creative expression, including poetry, fiction, drama, screenwriting, creative, memoir, and travel writing. Thanks to emerging technologies, new creative writing genres are emerging, such as song mash-ups, cell phone novels, and Twitter poetry.
Introduction
Writing fiction isn’t easy. For some it is intuitive. For others it requires hard work, perseverance, and close attention to form and technique. If you are going to learn to write fiction, you will need to know a few basic principles. These principles include point of view, characterization, plot, and conflict. These principles can be exercised in many different ways. How you choose to exercise them is what will make your story distinctively different from anyone else’s.
