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WRITING
JOURNALS
•ANY WRITTEN LOG
•GRATITUDE JOURNAL, MEMORY JOURNAL, DREAM
JOURNAL OR GOALS JOURNAL
DIARIES
•SPECIFIC KIND OF JOURNAL WHERE YOU WRITE
DOWN THE EVENTS OF EACH DAY, RESULTING IN A
CHRONICLE OF YOUR LIFE.
ESSAYS
•NOT ALL ESSAYS ARE CREATIVE, BUT PLENTY OF
ESSAYS FLOW FROM CREATIVE THINKING.
•EX. PERSONAL ESSAYS, DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS AND
PERSUASIVE ESSAYS
FICTION
•ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR TYPES OF CREATIVE WRITING.
•PROSE FICTION OR NARRATIVE FICTION INCLUDES
NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, MYTHS, PARABLES, ROMANCES
AND EPICS
•MEANT ANYTHING MADE UP, CRAFTED OR SHAPED, BUT AS
WE UNDERSTAND THE WORD TODAY, IT MEANS A PROSE
STORY BASED IN THE IMAGINATION OF THE AUTHOR.
•ALTHOUGH IT MAY INTRODUCE TRUE HISTORICAL DETAILS,
IT IS NOT REAL HISTORY, FOR ITS PURPOSE IS PRIMARILY
TO INTEREST, DIVERT, STIMULATE, AND INSTRUCT.
•THE ESSENCE IS NARRATION, THE RELATING OR
RECOUNTING OF A SEQUENCE OF EVENTS OR ACTIONS.
•USUALLY FOCUS ON ONE OR A FEW MAJOR
CHARACTERS AND UNDERGO SOME KIND OF CHANGE
AS THEY INTERACT WITH OTHER CHARACTERS AND
DEAL WITH PROBLEMS.
POETRY
•POPULAR BUT UNDER-APPRECIATED TYPE OF WRITING.
•THE MOST ARTISTIC, CREATIVE FORM OF WRITING.
•MORE ECONOMICAL THAN PROSE FICTION IN THE USE OF WORDS, AND IT
RELIES HEAVILY ON IMAGERY, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND SOUND.
•EX. STRUCTURED POETRY, FREE-FORM POETRY AND PROSE POETRY
MEMOIR
•PERSONAL ACCOUNTS (OR STORIES) WITH NARROW THEMES AND
SPECIFIC TOPICS.
•USUALLY THE LENGTH OF NOVELS OR NOVELLAS; SHORTER WORKS OF
THIS KIND WOULD BE CONSIDERED ESSAYS.
•MEMOIR TOPICS FOCUS ON SPECIFIC EXPERIENCES RATHER THAN
PROVIDING A BROAD LIFE STORY (WHICH WOULD BE A BIOGRAPHY)
VIGNETTES
•A BRIEF EVOCATIVE DESCRIPTION, ACCOUNT OR EPISODE.
•CAN BE POEMS, STORIES, DESCRIPTIONS, PERSONAL
ACCOUNTS
•IT IS EXTREMELY SHORT---JUST A QUICK SNIPPET.
LETTERS