This document provides an overview of five fundamentals of creative writing: images, voice, character, setting, and story. It discusses how writers can use descriptive details and appeal to the five senses to create vivid images for readers. It also addresses choosing a narrator's voice and point of view. Additionally, it offers tips for developing characters, such as through appearance, speech, actions, and thoughts. The document also explores how setting establishes time, place, and mood. Finally, it defines story as a character's journey involving conflict, obstacles, decisions, and change.
Intro to Creative Writing & its TechniquesNoha Fathi
Get introduced to creative writing and some of its techniques.
The power of words can be sensed easily when written creatively. That is why, creative writing exists.
This discusses Creative form of writing and how it differs with Academic and Technical forms of writing. It also covers the important literary devices: Imagery and Figures of speech.
Intro to Creative Writing & its TechniquesNoha Fathi
Get introduced to creative writing and some of its techniques.
The power of words can be sensed easily when written creatively. That is why, creative writing exists.
This discusses Creative form of writing and how it differs with Academic and Technical forms of writing. It also covers the important literary devices: Imagery and Figures of speech.
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1. Plot/Structure – Describe the plot of the story. Avoid making comments or interpretations about behavior and actions by the characters, just stick with describing what happens in the story. Are there other stories you know of that is similar to the plot of this story?
Most stories, as we’re familiar with them through movies, have the structure of a beginning, middle, and end. The plot is essentially the action of the story, where one event or action leads to another event or action, which leads in a long string of actions that arrives at a final confrontation. After the final confrontation, there is the resolution and denouement. This story telling structure is embodied through a model known as Freytag’s Pyramid, which maps out a traditional plot like this:
2. Point of View – Who is telling this story, a first person or third person narrator? How would you characterize this narrator?
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3. Characters – List and describe the primary characters of the story. Focus on specific details about each character, such as certain behaviors and/or things they say.
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2. Images
Creating a world your reader can enter.
Readers want to experience emotion through
images. They do not just want to be told how a
character feels.
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How can you describe to a
blind man since birth the
color blue?
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4. Appealing to our five senses
○ sight,
○ sound,
○ smell,
○ taste
○ touch.
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5. What to avoid?
Abstract words and concepts like
cleverness, love, irritation.
Generalizations and vague references like
thing, beings, equipment. Avoid
judgements or stated opinions such as
beautiful, suspicious.
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7. “ 1. Who is telling
the story?
2. Who is the
narrator?
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8. Point of View
1. “I”—spoken directly
from you or from a
character’s direct
point of view.
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9. First-Person Point of View
1st person allows you to
express deep understanding
of that character, since you
are inside their thoughts.
That character presents
their thoughts, feelings, and
judgements to the reader.
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11. Second-person Point of View (POV)
Second person point of view
directly addresses the
reader and puts the reader
into the story / poem. It’s not
used very often and is
employed more for a special
effect.
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12. Point of View
3. “she” or “he”—
spoken by a
narrator about a
character.
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13. Point of View
Third person is the most
common point of view for
fiction / short story writing.
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14. 3rd Point of View (POV)
1. All-knowing narrator—knows
everything
2. Limited narrator—only goes
into the mind of one character
3. Objective narrator—only
presenting the observable
facts of an event or scene
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How can you tell
when your
friend is excited,
nervous,
unhappy, hiding
a secret? 16
17. How?
You can present a character (and this
character can be yourself) to the reader
through:
1. image (appearance),
2. voice (speech),
3. action, thought, and telling
(telling the reader directly how
a character feels)
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18. How?
Use concrete, significant detail:
1. How does she walk?
2. What does he wear?
3. What does she carry in her purse?
4. What does he eat and drink?
5. What is the style of her hair?
6. The shape of her nose?
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20. What is it?
Setting often propels the wish to write.
It shows a writer’s relationship to place
and time, and creates a particular place
and period that is necessary to
imaginative writing.
The reader needs to take in the setting
fairly early on in a piece of writing. You
can think of it as a camera, giving the
reader a wide and increasingly narrower
view of the scene. Begin with a wide
angle, and move closer.
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21. Squinting up and down Al Salam Street, I
peered at the sand-colored towers and
silhouettes of cranes heat-shimmering in the
distance. The architecture was mostly bland—
concrete and cinder— dotted with the
occasional shiny glass building. I saw nothing
to mark this place as intrinsically Arabian,
raised from the windswept dunes; I detected
no hint of the Middle East as it existed in my
imagination. Nor coral stone houses or distant
domes, only Citibank and scaffolding, a
Porsche dealership on the corner. I could be
in any modern city.
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22. What is it?
Setting creates the mood or atmosphere of
the story. Mood will contain some element of
time and weather—rainy or dry, shadowy or
light, winter or spring, peaceful or stormy.
There may be harmony or conflict between
character and setting.
Your characters may be at ease in the world
around them, or uncomfortable. When the
character is comfortable, the action and
setting are usually static. When the character
is uneasy in a setting, that is when discovery
and decision can take place.
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1. What is an example of a story you read
where characters changed by the end?
2. Where does your character desire?
3. What obstacles are in the way?
4. What does he /she do to defeat these
hurdles?
5. What decisions does your character
make?
6. Does your character get what she
wants?
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25. What is it?
Stories are about journeys—encountering the
new and unfamiliar.
When worlds (cultures, generations, genders,
neighborhoods) encounter each other,
conflict will occur in many different ways.
Conflict is the fundamental of a story.
When it occurs, characters experience
connection and disconnection. Characters
change.
By the end of a story, you will want your
character to have gone through a change.
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26. Another way to look at a story is through
conflict, crisis and resolution (beginning,
middle and end). Plot involves action, conflict,
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