CREATIVE

WRITING
A N I T O N AT I O N A L H I G H S C H O O L
OBJECTIVES
• Define creative writing
• Understand the nature of creative writing
• Differentiate creative writing to other forms of
writing
• Appreciate creative works of literary authors
• Write creative writing pieces
WHAT IS CREATIVE WRITING?
CREATIVE WRITING IS THE ARTISTIC
EXPRESSION THROUGH WRITTEN WORD. IT IS
USED TO EXPRESS WRITER’S IDEAS AND
EMOTIONS IN AN ARTISTIC MANNER. UNLIKE
OTHER FORMS OF WRITING, IT USES THE
LANGUAGE THAT AIMS TO ENTERTAIN AND
CAPTIVATE THE AUDIENCE.
 TECHNICAL WRITING CREATIVE WRITING

FORMS AND SAMPLES RESEARCH, JOURNALS, POETRY, FICTION, DRAMA

PROPOSALS, REPORTS,
GUIDELINE

OBJECTIVE AIM TO INSTRUCT AND AIMS TO ENTERTAIN THE

INFORM THE READERS READERS

CONTENT SHOW FACTS REFLECTS THE WRITER’S

IMAGINATION

AUDIENCE WITH SPECIFIC TARGET BROADER AUDIENCE

AUDIENCE

DICTION FORMAL INFORMAL

STRUCTURE SYSTEMATIC ARTISTIC

POETRY
Calm is All Nature as a Resting Wheel
by
William Wordsworth
Calm is all nature as a resting wheel.
The kine are couched upon the dewy
grass;
The horse alone, seen dimly as I
pass,
Is cropping audibly his later meal:
Dark is the ground; a slumber seems
to steal
O'er vale, and mountain, and the
starless sky.
Now, in this blank of things, a harmony,
Home-felt, and home-created, comes to
heal
That grief for which the senses still
supply
Fresh food; for only then, when
memory
Is hushed, am I at rest. My Friends!
restrain
Those busy cares that would allay my
pain;
Oh! leave me to myself, nor let me feel
The officious touch that makes me
droop again.
FICTION
Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite
was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I
consulted Atticus: “Reckon he’s got a tapeworm?” Atticus said no, Jem was
growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.
This change in Jem had come about in a matter of weeks. Mrs. Dubose was
not cold in her grave—Jem had seemed grateful enough for my company
when he went to read to her. Overnight, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien
set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so
far as to tell me what to do. After one altercation when Jem hollered, “It’s
time you started bein‘ a girl and acting right!” I burst into tears and fled to
Calpurnia.
-Excerpt from To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee
DRAMA
ENTER LEONATO, GOVERNOR OF
MESSINA;HERO, HIS DAUGHTER;
AND BEATRICE HIS NIECE,WITH A MESSENGER
LEONATO
I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Aragon
comes this night to Messina.
MESSENGER
He is very near by this. He was not three leagues
off when I left him.
LEONATO
How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?
MESSENGER
But few of any sort, and none of name.
LEONATO
A victory is twice itself when the achiever
brings home full numbers. I find here that
Don Pedro hath bestowed much honor on a
young Florentine called Claudio.
MESSENGER
Much deserved on his part, and equally
remembered by Don Pedro. He hath borne
himself beyond the promise of his age, doing
in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He
hath indeed better bettered expectation
than you must expect of me to tell you how.
LEONATO
He hath an uncle here in Messina will be
very much glad of
WARM UP
ACTIVITY 1
Write an essay about yourself: in
the first box, write it in a technical
manner and in the second box,
translate it to a creative form.
RUBRIC FOR GRADING THE ESSAY
INDICATOR RATING
(1-5)
THE FIRST ESSAY IS WRITTEN IN TECHNICAL ANNER.

THE SECOND ESSAY IS WRITTEN IN A CREATIVE MANNER

THE CONTENT OF THE ESSAY IS CLEAR.

IT IS IN PROPER FORM WITH CORRECT GRAMMAR,

SPELLING, AND PROPER
PUNCTUATIONS
TOTAL
HIGHLIGHTS
CREATIVE WRITING IS THE ARTISTIC
EXPRESSIONS THROUGH WRITTEN WORD. IT IS
USED TO EXPRESS THE WRITER’S IDEAS AND
EMOTIONS IN AN ARTISTIC MANNER
CREATIVE WRITING HAS A LARGER AUDIENCE,
INFORMAL, ARTISTIC, SUBJECTIVE, AND
IMAGINATIVE