How to Hone Your Creative Writing Skills


by Peter Morgan - Date: 2006-12-03 - Word Count: 388 Share This!

The best tip for new creative writers is to practice creative writing. While creative writing talent is the paramount ingredient in your writing success, you also need basic skills, basic tools and knowledge of standard writing techniques. These can be learned and honed through online or classroom training, reading, and practicing. Feedback and constructive criticism by experienced creative writing professionals is extremely helpful as well.

Reading and observing are handy learning tools when you're honing your creative writing skills. A routine is essential as well. Writing when the mood strikes you may be the stuff of dreams and movies, but it's not reality for those who want to succeed in creative writing.

Great creative writing is about a strong grasp of the language, and an even better story. While creative writing is generally fiction its basis does not need to be factual and accurate. A very old cliché, but very true one, is to write about what you know. We can expand that a little to say that you must write about what you know or what you have learned about.

Successful creative writers spend much time researching and studying the places, the ideas, and the products and materials they will present in their creative writing before they even write one page of the story.

Creative writing has seven different components: plot, setting, characters, dialogue, theme, style and point of view.

A creative writing plot happens when you organize the events that you are going to include in your story. The setting is the physical place and time in which your story will occur. The characters are the people in your story, although it could be animals as well. Dialogue simply means the conversation between the characters. Theme is the meaning behind your creative writing - its main idea - while style is the way you use the language to convey your theme.

Your point of view can be first or third person.

First person point of view makes you, the creative writer, the storyteller - i.e. - this is what happened to me. This format of creative writing can be limiting as the story is defined by what you would be able to know and observe. You could not delve into the thoughts of other persons or talk about things that occurred when you were not present. Third person would let you delve more objectively into the story.


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