The dictionary defines creative writing as writing that displays imagination or invention. Creative, artistic writing uses words to convey emotion or feeling. One must use imaginary scenarios invented by themselves.
The invention of the written word, sometime around 3200 B.C., launched creative writing with the recording of stories like The Odyssey and tales of Norse gods. Over time, the stories morphed and the skill of storytellers improved as well. Today, over three-fourths of the population can read and write. Oral storytellers have been using elements like voice and personality to entertain and convey human experience. But what is creative writing? Although the craft has taken many forms from the poem to the novel, the core purpose of conveying human experience remains. Indeed, many of our oldest stories still inspire modern-day storytellers such as Christopher Tolkien and his famous Lord of the Rings trilogy. The dictionary defines creative writing as writing that displays imagination or invention. Creative, artistic writing uses words to convey emotion or feeling. One must use imaginary scenarios invented by themselves. Rather than being limited to academic or technical subjects, which shun first-person voice and emotion, creative writing uses elements such as character development, plot, and the lyricism of words to share the author’s emotion with the reader. Academic writing is different in its essential purpose because it does not allow the author to share emotion. Good creative writing does this best, as we will see in later examples