Creative Writing

Definition
• It expresses the writer’s thoughts and feelings in an
imaginative, often unique, and poetic way.
• The writer expresses feelings and emotions instead of
just presenting the facts..
• Any writing that expresses free thinking falls into the
category of creative writing.

Examples
Short Stories
Songs
Scripts of Ads
Screenplays
Novels
Poetry

Techniques of Narrative writing
Use the these techniques to
make your story more
compelling and exciting to
the reader!

Example (1)
Instead of:
John is a good boy with nice ideas.
You can write:
John is a remarkable boy with wonderful ideas.

-Avoid using simplistic adjectives & adverbs such as
good, bad, well, nice, very, big, etc.
They make your writing weak & less effective.
-Instead, use words like
huge, wonderful, highly, terrible, etc

Example (2)
Instead of:
“Help!” he said.
You can write:
“Help!” he screamed.

Avoid using “said” all the time.
Instead
use verbs such as
wondered, screamed, whispered, etc.

3
Example
She ran like the wind
He was as quiet as a mouse
Use Similes
i.e expressions which describe people or things
by comparing them to someone or something
else

Example (4)
Instead of:
He turned on the light. He saw someone in the
room.
You can write:
Turning on the light, he saw someone in the
room.

Instead of:
She was relieved. She left the police station.
You can write:
Relieved, she left the police station.

Use present or past participle
to join
two simple sentences into one longer sentence.