Creative Writing Tutorial

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics. The emphasis here is to express thoughts, feelings and emotions rather than to simply convey information.

Types of creative writing include:
Poetry
Plays

Movie and television scripts
Fiction (novels, novellas, and short stories)
Songs
Speeches
Memoirs
Personal essays


Techniques used in creative writing include:

Character development
Plot development
Vivid setting
Underlying theme
Point of view
Dialogue
Anecdotes
Metaphors and similes
Figures of speech
Imaginative language
Emotional appeal
Heavy description

Elements of creative writing include:

Action
Character
Conflict
Dialogue
Genre
Narration
Pace
Plot
Point of View
Scene
Setting
Style
Suspense
Theme and Motif
Tone
Voice