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Creative Writing for Beginners Class
This class aims to teach the students about creative writing and its subtopics in general. After going through the set of lessons the student must now understand creative writing and its different forms be it fiction or non-fiction and the like. The students will now be able to create their own narrative essays, fiction and non-fiction stories, poems and different kinds of articles. The student should be able to distinguish the differences between the different types of creative writing. They would also now know what creative writing can teach them and how it can help with their everyday lives.
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Lesson 1: What is Creative Writing
Creative writing is defined as a way for a writer to express his/her imaginative thoughts and feelings. When a writer tackles creative writing he/she has personal freedom on choosing from a wide range of topics and ideas. The writer is not limited when writing creatively; he/she can stretch the boundaries of their imagination to the best of its abilities.
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Lesson 2: Reason Behind Creative Writing
Creative writing isn’t just a form of writing, it is also a form of expression, one can write whatever he/she feels when writing creatively. The use of imagination when building a story can be a freeing task. Below is a list of ways on how creative writing can be beneficial for a person.
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Lesson 3: Getting Ahead of Writers Block
Writers block means that a writer is unable to go on writing what he/she has already started to write. The writer is stuck or at a standstill when he/she has writers block. Either the writer has too many thoughts or none at all that make his/her writing process stop on its tracks. Writers block is a common problem for writers often caused by mixed emotions or conflicting feelings.
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Lesson 4: How Professional Writers Do It
Another term for professional writing is technical writing. Professional writing is a form of writing where in the writer creates a story or piece that is informative and that can easily be understood by consumers. Professional writers get paid to write a lot, they can enter different kinds of medium as well. Some write for newspapers, some for TV and radio commercials, some write reviews and so on.
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Lesson 5: Elements of Narrative Essay
A narrative essay is one form of writing wherein the writer shares his/her own personal story. This type of essay mostly uses the first person point of view making it more personal both to the writer telling the story and the reader going through it. It mostly talks about you or an experience you went through or something that a person very close to you has gone through or is going through.
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Lesson 6: Getting Inside Fiction Writing
Writing in fiction means that one creates with his/her imagination. Fiction does not literally mean that stories are based on actual events. There are five components that make up a fictional story these would include the plot, characters, theme, conflict and point of view.
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Lesson 7: Dialogue and Conversation
Dialogue is the tone you want your characters to have. It is the characters voice in a story. A writer wants his/her readers to get an idea of how the characters in the story are like with the use of dialogue. An exchange of dialogue between two or more characters is called a conversation.
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Lesson 8: How to Make your Point of View
The point of view in a story or piece means the perspective of the narrator or writer. The writer can utilize different kinds of point of views to express his/her way of telling the story or how it will pan out. When the writer uses point of view he/she most likely wants to control the tone of the story because point of view and the tone of the story are connected in a way.
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Lesson 9: Dealing with Non-Fiction
Non-fiction writing is creating a story that is actually based on real life. Non-fiction and fiction are total opposites, Non-fiction deals with something real while fiction deals with something made up. Writers who write non-fiction usually have credibility to do so because it mostly involves proven facts.
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Lesson 10: Why write Poetry
Poetry is a form of writing where in there is a distinction in the way it is expressed. Writing poetry varies in type and style. Usually poems are written using different kinds of figures of speech because the writer does not want to blatantly give out the message of the story or piece but he/she wants the reader to figure out the message in their own way.
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Lesson 11: A Deeper look into Poetry
Figures of speech can help you write a poem so try to incorporate some of these when you’re starting to create one. And try to remember the guidelines if it gets to confusing for you to understand what a poem is talking about.
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Lesson 12: Articles, Blogs and Journalistic Piece Writing
Article writing is writing about information in a formal way. Articles can become a research material for readers who are finding certain information about a specific subject or topic. Most of the time articles are written for an academic audience. Since articles tend to give out information to its readers the writer must embark on a lot of research to make a well structured piece.
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Lesson 13: Drama, Script and Screen Writing
lesson 13 aims to teach you what script writing is all about. Here, you will understand how drama is needed by a story that will be written for a play or the movie screen. And now, you will be able to write your own script using the pointers written above.
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Lesson 14: Editing is Key
When a writer creates a story it is always a common staple in the work process to edit ones work. Editing means that the writer fixes his/her work, he/she changes a few things in the story that help organize its structure. When a writer edits his/her work he/she checks for wrongly spelled words, sentences that need to be paraphrased, vague statements etc.
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Lesson 15: Making your Creativity Running
Creativity means using ones imagination to create or generate something or something new. Creativity is a byproduct of the word creative, meaning doing something with the use of the imagination like art. Creativity is what helps give a story originality and distinctiveness. A writer uses his/her creativity to give their story personality and variety.
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Lesson 16: Resources of Writers
A resource means that it gives something or something can be taken from it. In literature and other industries resources serve as helping hands or supporting aids where a writer or person can get more information about a subject or topic. Sometimes a writer can get an idea just by reading a resource material. Resource materials can either be in printed form or not.
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Lesson 17: The Final Step: Publishing Your Work
Publishing a story or a piece of work means that the writer is ready to share their work to the world. Publishing is the production and distribution of one’s work for the general public to consume. Publishing helps an author and their stories to be recognized, it can be for better or for worse it all depends on the people who will consume or take it in.
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Creative Writing for Beginners: Conclusion
It is now time to sum up what you have learned after reading this module. Here in the conclusion you will see what you should have gotten and understood from each one of the lessons in this module. In summary the lessons that you have gone through in this module should have helped you understood the following:
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