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Discover what it means to write creatively and the best methods for actually doing it.
By Julie Tyler Ruiz
Writing creatively is the act of turning your original ideas into a written piece, a unique reading experience that will inspire your audience.
Unlike professional or academic writing, writing in a creative way means you use a special set of techniques and styles to infuse your work with emotional texture, innovative use of language, surprising forms, and aesthetic qualities.
Let's look at a comparison example:
Discover all that creative writing has to offer and begin your journey as a creative writer.
By Julie Tyler
Creative writing refers to a broad range of texts that draw upon writers' creativity (as the term suggests), facility with words, emotional depth, and intellectual rigor to convey meaning. Creative writing is also an area of study and college major at many colleges and universities.
Creative writing is, by nature, an artistic expression, characterized by originality, invention, imagination, and inspiration. Creative writers use language as their primary medium, putting words together in new ways and using literary devices like symbolism or foreshadowing, to create original works. As we'll explore further down, creative writing encompasses fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama, and even hybrid forms.
Exceptional pieces of creative writing are considered literature and often appear on reading...
Discover the transformative power of creative writing prompts for every stage of your writing journey.
By Julie Tyler Ruiz
A writing prompt is an exercise or set of instructions that a writer uses to gain a fresh perspective, develop writing skills, burst through writer's block, or complete a specific writing-related task. You can use creative writing prompts at any stage of your writing journey to bring originality, inspiration, and confidence to your work.
For example:
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