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ELEMENTS of CREATIVE writing Creative writing is writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature. TYPES of character Borrowed character Created from the "ground up", often starting from expediency as a two-dimensional creation. POINT of VIEW POV is a story told in the narrating character"s own voice, and the reader doesn"t know any more than the character does.
ELEMENTS of CREATIVE writing Creative writing is writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature. TYPES of character Borrowed character Created from the "ground up", often starting from expediency as a two-dimensional creation. POINT of VIEW POV is a story told in the narrating character"s own voice, and the reader doesn"t know any more than the character does.
ELEMENTS of CREATIVE writing Creative writing is writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature. TYPES of character Borrowed character Created from the "ground up", often starting from expediency as a two-dimensional creation. POINT of VIEW POV is a story told in the narrating character"s own voice, and the reader doesn"t know any more than the character does.
ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE WRITING ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE WRITING
ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE WRITING ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE WRITING
Any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature a form of artistic expression, draws on the imagination to convey meaning through the use of imagery, narrative, and drama. Creative Writing Creative Writing CHARACTER
Elements of Creative Writing Elements of Creative Writing POINT OF VIEW
PLOT DIALOGUE SETTING STYLE THEME AND MOTIF A person in a narrative works of arts.
Character Character A character who stands as a representative of a particular class or group of people.
TYPES OF CHARACTER Round characters- fleshed out like they are real people. The reader is given many realistic details about this type of character Flat characters- less complicated and stereotyped or caricatured
Dynamic characters- the ones who change over the course of the story Static characters- remain the same throughout
CREATION OF CHARACTER Comes into the authors head and lives there. Magical Character Magical Character
My Love From The Stars Created by taking an emblematic quality or character trait from a real person, plugging that trait into a fictional situation, and then the author uses imagination to transform the character into a unique construct. Borrowed Character Borrowed Character
Created from the ground up, often starting from expediency as a two- dimensional creation which the author then tries to get to know better, sometimes by adding trouble and conflict. Made-up Character Made-up Character The narrator's position in relation to the story being told. Determines the narrator of a story and how much the reader knows.
Point of View Point of View Is a story told in the narrating characters own voice. It uses I throughout, and the reader doesnt know any more than the character does.
Example: I was minding my own business when Mom burst in. Whats with you? I grumbled.
Stories told in second person are told as if telling someone else what they are doing.
Example: You walk into the cave and hear a low rumble. What is it? you wonder.
Is the familiar he said / she said story.
Example: He gripped the dollar bill tightly. You cant have it, he told her.
A limited POV keeps the narration to what that character can see or know. First person is obviously limited, but many third person stories are as well. Everything is seen through the narrators eyes, and the reader can only tell what other characters are thinking or feeling by their body language or what they say
An omniscient POV lets the author dip into the heads of various characters. When done well, it can be very effective, letting more characters thoughts, feelings, and background be shown. The disadvantage is that of a constant reminder of a constructed story, and so adds some distance between the reader and the characters
A story with multiple points of view is not the same as omniscient. Multiple viewpoints let the reader into different characters heads by making complete narrative switches, usually in different sections or chapters. Within those sections, however, the narrator is held to a single, usually limited, viewpoint
Subjective can include thoughts and internal reactions, such as She ordered her favorite soup, remembering the weekend John had convinced her to try it. Objective keeps a cameras view, showing the action but not the thoughts. She ordered asparagus soup. John smiled. Do you remember? he asked
The events that makes up a story.
Point of View Point of View
Introduces all of the main characters in the story.
Exposition Exposition The events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed
Rising Action Rising Action The highest point of interest or the greatest tension.
Climax Climax
Actions of character resolving the problem
Falling Actions Falling Actions The resolution; the storys mystery is solved.
Denoument Denoument
Disagreement between two or more people
Conflict Conflict A critical component for assisting the story, as in man vs. nature or man vs. society stories. In some stories the settings becomes a character it self.
Settings Settings Verbal exchange between two or more characters. Dialogue Dialogue Ex. This breakfast is making me sick, George said.
George said is the identifier
Other examples: Hello, he croaked nervously, my names Horace. Whats yours? he asked with as much aplomb as he could muster. Said- bookisms substitute of the word said Ex. What do you mean? he smiled. The word smiled is the said- bookism
In fiction, style is the codified gesture, in which the author tells the story. Along with plot, character, theme, and setting, style is considered one of the fundamental components of fiction.
Style Style
COMPONENTS OF STYLE Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse. Fiction-writing also has distinct forms of expressions, or modes, each with its own purpose and conventions.
The teller of the story, the orator, doing the mouthwork, or its in- print equivalent. It maybe either obtrusive or unobtrusive, depending on the authors intended relationship between himself, the narrator, the point of view character, and the reader.
Is from whose consciousness the readers hears, sees, and feels the story.
Is a work of fiction in which the symbols, characters, and events come to present, in somewhat point-by-point fashion, a different metaphysical, political or social situation.
Refers to any object or person which represents something else.
Refers to the attitude that the story creates toward the subject matter. tone is sometimes referred to as the mood that the author establishes within the story.
Is used in fiction to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory experiences. imagery means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses
Is everything in written language other than the actual letters or numbers, including punctuation marks, inter-word spaces, and indentions
Diction, in its original, primary meaning, refers to the writers or the speakers distinctive vocabulary choice and style of expression. Literary diction analysis reveals how a passage establishes tone and characterization.
In linguistics, grammar refers to the logical and structural rules that govern the composition of sentence or phrases, and words in any given natural language
Is the ability to form mental images, sensation and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses.
The grammatical and lexical relationship within a text or sentence. cohesion can be defined as the links that hold a text together and give it meaning.
The readers temporary acceptance of story elements as believable, regardless of how implausible they may seem in real life.
In grammar, the voice also called diathesis of the verb describes the relationship between the action that the verb expresses and participants identified by its arguments.
An idea or point that is central to a story which can often be summed in a single word (e.g. love, death, betrayal).
Theme Theme 1. Thematic concept- what the readers think the work is about 2. Thematic statement- what the work says about the subject
1.Leitwortstil- repetition of a wording in a narrative to make sure it catches the readers 2.Thematic patterning- insertion of a recurring motif in a narrative. Minor tales ultimately reinforce the theme of the major narrative
In narrative, motif is a recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story. through its repeatition, a motif can help produce other narrative aspects such as theme or mood.