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Creative Writing
Creative writing refers to a writing style that expresses thoughts and ideas in an imaginative way. It involves creating a work of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, going beyond the technical, professional, journalistic, and academic form of literature.
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How do you create emotion in your writing?
Here are some tips to writing more emotional scenes:
- Know your characters. If you understand your characters, you know how they are going to react in each situation, and your writing will have more impact.
- Make your characters believable, so that the reader can feel for them.
- Avoid predictable endings in your scenes - don't have the same old thing happen that readers have read a hundred times.
- Make your characters logical instead of forcing them to behave in some way just to make them fit into your original plot - readers will feel for a character more strongly if the character behaves in a believable way.
- Avoid stereotypes.
- Avoid coincidences.
- Avoid over-writing. Get rid of the "flowery" speech and overblown verbage. Just write a clear scene and show your characters reacting.
How do you explain in detail a description of a beach?
Aim to involve all the senses of the reader/listener.
What can you see? Hear? Smell? Touch? Taste? It might be hard to find a suitable description for a few of the senses, but involving them anyway will help hook the reader into your description.
What is happening? Are there people? What are they doing? Why?
Describe the waves, what the wind is doing, the temperature and how it all makes you feel. Is it grey or colourful? Is anyone in the water? Are there boats and skiers? And the sky. Is it blue and cloudless? Will the weather change? How do you know? Is it attractive for visitors? Why/why not?
What different sounds can you hear? Sea-birds, children, waves crashing on the shore, the sound as the water is sucked out for the next wave, the rigging of boats smacking against their masts, jet-skis and the smell of the fuel, maybe a fun fair? People's radios? Vendors plying their wares?
Touch the sand and everything within reach. How does it feel? How would you describe it? What memories are evoked? What is the beach for? Can the beach be used as a metaphor for anything in life?
The smell of sunscreen, fries, and that salty sea air you always find when you're near sea water... Including all of these descriptions will help create a great piece of writing which will really entice the reader.
If you involve all the senses, your description will help the reader to experience in their imagination all that you are experiencing, and they will be enriched by it.
What fictional character first lived with small people then giants?
Could be Gulliver, from Gulliver's Travels (first published 1726), although there could be an earlier work that I am unaware of with similar events.
Why can science fiction stories be harmful for peoples minds?
Why science fiction stories are not harmful for human's mind
The only things that reading science fiction does to the human mind are:
- educates them about science
- Forces them to imagine
- Makes them think scientifically
- Promotes them to think about the future and to do something about it.
- Exhausts them so they are forced to take a nap.
What could it possibly do that is harmful?
- Be a danger to the established order of government and culture.
- Be a danger to the established order of large companies and financial institutions.
It would be a great loss indeed if we were to lose all of the above, they are elegant and profitable institutions. However science fiction does not promote their destruction rather their improvement - and they certainly could stand some improvement.
How would you describe a boy with an umbrella on a cloudy day using 3 adjectives?
Your teacher wanted YOU to do this assignment, not ask some random person on the internet to do it for you!
You're supposed to use your imagination and think of ways to describe someone who would have an umbrella on a cloudy day. How would you describe them? Are they cautious or sensible? Could they be damp or wet? What about being male and young? There are tons of ways you could describe this image!
Where is the diary of Christopher McCandless?
It is not known where Christopher McCandless's diary is. Chris was a hiker whose experience inspired the movie, Into the Wild.
What is the position from which the writer tells the story?
The writer is the narrator of her/his story. From: Retold American Classics, volume 1 == ==
How do you find a literary agent?
The most reliable avenue to find an agent is through the Association of Authors' Representatives -- see link below.
They don't charge reading fees. Beware of agents who ask for money upfront, they are often ripoffs.
You can also get the most current issue of Writer's Market -- it will list literary agents who are hiring that year.
How would you describe someone who writes really well?
literate, descriptive, able to convey ideas and communicate, thoughtful, creative, has a strong grammer knowledge
How the protagonist over comes trials/obstacles.
IS Eric Carle alive today in 2008?
US illustrator Eric Carle is 88 years old (birthdate: June 25, 1929).
Does anyone have any ideas on how to start a story on the Titanic?
Here is one suggestion to start off a story on the Titanic:
All boats could sink, before the Titanic was born. The Titanic was believed never to sink, and that's why I (or your main character's name if writing in 3rd person POV) was going to sail on the Titanic.
Where is writing originated from?
since people were able to communicate via written word letters have been transported by messengers to convey the messages of people who could not themselves speak with the other person.
The oldest form of writing I think is the cuneiform of the Assyrians and the Egyptian's hieroglyphs.
What would be a good book character dress up idea?
The cheapest option would be as Adam/Eve from the book of Genesis...
How much does a TV writer make?
The salary of a TV writer will vary depending on the shows budget and their experience. The Writers Guild of America sets minimum rates at which writer can be paid. A contracted staff writer who works a 20 hour week can earn no less than $3,703 per week. Anyone who is ranked above a staff writer earns a minimum of $6,036 per week.
Is it legal to write a book using the same title as another?
A book title cannot be copyrighted. I am an author and know this for certain. You can call your book whatever you please. There are many authors out there who have the same book title as other authors. See the following:
Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
Book of the Dead by Tanith Lee
Book of the Dead by Robert Richardson
Book of the Dead by Ashley McConnell
What are some good scientist names?
You need to invent your own names - writers who copy ideas from other people end up in trouble for plagiarism! If you copy someone's names or ideas, then when you publish your story, they could claim you stole those from them and sue you for part of your money.
I use online name generators for the names of my secondary characters - the main characters, I take my time and choose special names from baby name books!
Click on the LINKS for character name generator websites!
Describe your approach to training teaching and how do you make sure every trainee really learns?
how would you describe your current teaching approach?
how many different learning styles can you describe ? how would you describe your own learning style?
Where is a good location to set Gothic fiction?
- Any location in which the character feels 'out of place' in or threatened in.
- One that hasn't been used before.
How about the subway system.
What are some good Titles for a book that is about a love story like the Titanic?
WikiAnswers cannot give you a "good" title because we have not read your story! An effective title must come from the story itself, not from someone who has never read it - that's like getting someone to draw a picture for it without knowing what it's about!
Click on the Related Questions to see how you can find a good title.
What is a good name for a story about wolves?
Only you can come up with a good name! Book Titles come from the story, not from some anonymous person on the internet! Titles are not as important as some writers think, also - your title might change many times between your first write and your final draft!
Think about your story - what is going on and who are the people involved?
Check out the Related Questions for help with your book, too!
How do you write on the topic 'solidarity makes us strong'?
WikiAnswers will not write your homework for you, but we WILL help you learn how to do it yourself! Click on the Related Questions for even more information.
Write sentences the way you speak - just pretend you are telling this to a friend, and write down what you would say. What would you tell them about this topic? What does this statement mean to you? Look up the words if you need to! How would you explain this statement to your friend?
If you just start writing, you will be through with your assignment before you know it!
