CREATIVE WRITING VS.
OTHER FORMS OF
WRITING
JOANNE H. MEDINA
LESSON OBJECTIVES
1. Differentiate Creative writing to other forms of writing
2. Appreciate creative works of literary authors
3. Write your first creative writing piece.
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Creative Writing and Its Difference to Other Forms of Writing
CREATIVE WRITING
Creative writing is the artistic expression through
written word.
It is used to express the writer’s ideas and emotions
in an artistic manner.
Unlike other forms of writing, it uses a language that
aims to entertain and captivate the audience.
INSTAMEMORY
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Imagine a favorite memory as a cellphone picture.
Finish this sentence starter: My memory snapshots
shows…
Keep writing until you’ve described your memory
snapshot in full. Make sure to include who is in it,
what is happening, where it is happening, and when
it is happening. Note colors, emotions, facial
expressions, and other visual details about the
moment.
Read your memory snapshot. Does your writing
create a clear picture?
RAISE ME UP!
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Identify the following well-known local titles if it is
IMAGINATIVE or TECHNICAL writing.
Explain why your answers are technical or
imaginative.
The group with the highest score will be the winner.
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A COMPARISON
Technical Writing Creative Writing
Forms / Samples Research journals, Poetry,
proposals, Fiction,
reports, Drama
guidelines.
Objective Aims to instruct and inform the Aims to entertain the readers
readers
Content Shows facts Reflects the writer’s imagination
Audience With specific target audience Broader audience
Diction Formal Informal
Structure Systematic Artistic
SAMPLE CREATIVE WORKS
Poetry Calm is all nature as a resting wheel.
The kine are couched upon the dewy grass;
The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass,
Is cropping audibly his later meal:
Dark is the ground; a slumber seems to steal
O'er vale, and mountain, and the starless sky.
Now, in this blank of things, a harmony,
Home-felt, and home-created, comes to heal
That grief for which the senses still supply
Fresh food; for only then, when memory
Is hushed, am I at rest. My Friends! restrain
Those busy cares that would allay my pain;
Oh! leave me to myself, nor let me feel
The officious touch that makes me droop again.
SAMPLE CREATIVE WORKS
Fiction
“Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody.
His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering
him I consulted Atticus: “Reckon he’s got a tapeworm?” Atticus said no, Jem
was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.
This change in Jem had come about in a matter of weeks. Mrs.
Dubose was not cold in her grave—Jem had seemed grateful enough for my
company when he went to read to her. Overnight, it seemed, Jem had
acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several
times he went so far as to tell me what to do. After one altercation when Jem
hollered, “It’s time you started bein‘ a girl and acting right!” I burst into tears
and fled to Calpurnia.”
Excerpt from How To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee
SAMPLE CREATIVE WORKS
Drama
Much Ado About Nothing
Act 1, scene 1
Synopsis:
The army of Don Pedro of Aragon arrives in Messina and is welcomed by
Leonato, Messina’s governor. Benedick of Padua, a soldier in Don Pedro’s army,
proclaims his enmity to love and engages in a skirmish of wits with Leonato’s
niece, Beatrice. Count Claudio, the hero of Don Pedro’s just-ended war, falls in
love with Leonato’s daughter Hero and confesses his love to Don Pedro, who
decides to woo Hero for Claudio.
Scene 1
Enter Leonato, Governor of Messina, Hero his daughter,
and Beatrice his niece, with a Messenger.
LEONATO, with a letter I learn in this letter that Don
Pedro of Aragon comes this night to Messina.
MESSENGER He is very near by this. He was not three
leagues off when I left him.
LEONATO How many gentlemen have you lost in this
action?
MESSENGER But few of any sort, and none of name.
LEONATO A victory is twice itself when the achiever
brings home full numbers. I find here that Don
Pedro hath bestowed much honor on a young
Florentine called Claudio.
MESSENGER Much deserved on his part, and equally
remembered by Don Pedro. He hath borne himself
beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure
of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed better
bettered expectation than you must expect of me to
tell you how.
LEONATO He hath an uncle here in Messina will be
very much glad of it.
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WRITING ACTIVITY
• Write an essay about yourself. In the first page,
write it in technical manner and in the second
page, translate it to a creative form.
RUBRIC IN GRADING YOUR ESSAY
• Exchange your essays with your seatmate and let your seatmate evaluate the essays based on this rubric.
Indicator Rating (1-5)
The first essay is written in a technical manner.
The second essay is written in a creative manner.
The content of the essay is clear.
It is in proper form with correct grammar, spelling, and proper punctuations.
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“ CREATIVE WRITING IS THE
ARTISTIC EXPRESSION THROUGH
WRITTEN WORD. IT USED TO
EXPRESS WRITER’S IDEAS AND
EMOTIONS IN AN ARTISTIC
MANNER.
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“ CREATIVE WRITING HAS A
LARGER AUDIENCE, INFORMAL,
ARTISTIC, SUBJECTIVE, AND
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IMAGINATIVE.
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THANK YOU!
